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Hispanic Students Talk About Stereotypes, Cultural Pride

Bill Zeeble
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KERA News
Eugenio Trevino's one of several hundred Latino high school students in Dallas for the past few days attending the National Hispanic Institutes annual gathering.

Hundreds of super-bright Latino teens spent four days in Dallas for leadership training. It was part of the National Hispanic Institute’s annual meeting. As part of KERA’s American Graduate Initiative, Bill Zeeble talked with a pair of the students from McAllen about stereotypes of South Texas and cultural pride.

Eugenio Trevino and Bianca Mujica attend the BETA public high school in McAllen, a magnet campus focused on business, education, and technology. Eugenio is the first student we hear:

We also heard from Bianca Mujica with her classmate, Eugenio Trevino.

Credit Bill Zeeble / KERA News
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KERA News
Bianca Mujica goes to high school in McAllen, where she's a senior. The plans on taking journalism courses in college, at UNT.

He plans to study history and political science at Baylor and possibly run for office someday. She wants to be a reporter and eventually write novels.  They were among the hundreds of Latino students in Dallas over the weekend.

Bill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues.