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Video-On-Demand: Gendai America Kiso Koza
Basic Courses on Contemporary America

No. 40
"The Latino Vote in the U.S. Presidential Election: What are the Implications? "

Speaker: Mr. Miguel Diaz
(Former Director of the South America, Project The Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS])
Date/Time: April 21, 2008

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A Profile of the U.S. Hispanic Electrorate
(9 min. 41 sec.)
What is a Hispanic American?
(8 min. 45 sec.)
Political Charasteristics
(9 min. 50 sec.)
2008 Elections
(10 min. 2 sec.)
Hispanic-Asian Relations
(4 min. 10 sec.)
Full Lecture
(49 min. 38 sec.)



Mr. Diaz talked about the Latino population's influence on the 2008 Presidential Election and how leading candidates try to court the Latino Vote. Mr. Diaz also discussed Latino influence on policy-making such as immigration issues, multicultural integration, and bilingual education.



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