I am stating a view, not engaging in debate.  I dont see a reason to state the matter as you have.  The percentage of Latino's in Chicago (for example) dwarfs any other non-English linguistic-ethnic group.  Would we send them to  LAC-RALO?  I also dont think there needs to be further barrier to their participation.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Evan Leibovitch</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org">evan@telly.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Michael Maranda wrote:<br><br>&gt; This would also be appealing for inclusion of a significant proportion<br>&gt; of US population.<br>If we used that criteria we should then also include Mandarin, Greek,<br>Hindi, Italian, and probably a few others.
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