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By: NY1 News

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Hispanic New Yorkers are gathering today in Manhattan to celebrate their heritage, as the 47th annual Hispanic Day Parade goes up Fifth Avenue this afternoon.

Hispanic New Yorkers are gathering today in Manhattan to celebrate their heritage.

The 47th annual Hispanic Day Parade kicks off at noon and runs up Fifth Avenue from 44th Street to 67th Street.

Organizers say more than 10,000 marchers will take part.

The parade will also feature floats, bands and musical groups to celebrate Latin American and Latino culture.


Source: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/148635/fifth-avenue-fills-with-latin-american-pride

Thats good

Those countries which do not have big enough numbers to make their own parade can join together with other nations and have their particular brand of hispanic culture represented on this day.

WTF is an Hispanic?


What do I have in common with a Mexican?


Free thinking people want to know!!!!

anthonyc asks

What do I have in common with a Mexican?

nothing, i hope. those people have enough strikes against them, as it is.

Well to start, maybe you both speak the same language, go to the same church, watch Mexican TV programing and movies owned by Univision and maybe even read similar books by well known Spanish/Latin American writers to the likes of Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, Spanish Ana Maria Matute, Mexican dramatist Rodolfo Usigli, Federico Garcia Lorca, Miguel de Unamuno and the literary classic Don Quijote by Cervantes. Is that enough or do I need to point out a few more ?

That's the way of telling a an ignoramus where it's at. 'Ma que sabe, not Kimo-sabe, because he was a native.
If there were a Dingbat planet, this aC guy would be from there! ese tipo no sabe adonde esta parao'. Un dia es de RD, otro es de Cuba, otro dia es Aleman sangre azul, otro un Vaquero red neck cracker de los everglades....

Guarocuya suggests


If there were a Dingbat planet, this aC guy would be from there!

correction, sir. there is a Dingbat planet, and anthonyc is from there.

Hispanic Pride on Display at Midtown Parade

October 9, 2011 6:30pm



By Sonia Sharp

Special to DNAinfo

SEE MORE PHOTOS: @ link below

MIDTOWN — You’d be forgiven for missing Martha Calderon’s tiny blue, yellow and red flag amidst an ocean of brightly colored banderas lining Fifth Avenue Sunday afternoon.

Rolled up and tied like a ribbon around the brim of her straw hat, the tiny Colombian flag merely hinted at the pride she’d come to share at the 47th annual Hispanic Day Parade.

“We’re here celebrating our heritage,” said Calderon, 63, who moved to Astoria, Queens, more than two decades ago. “Here we have the opportunity to meet other people from our country and to show our pride in our roots.”

Calderon joined thousands of observers along Fifth Avenue between 44th and 67th Streets to watch the parade, which falls on the eve of Columbus Day, celebrated as Dia de la Raza by many in the Hispanic community.

Crowds cheered on marching bands and civic societies, pop stars and grade-schoolers paraded up the street in a glitzed-up version of traditional costumes, accompanied by pulse-pounding music.

“As soon as I walked out of the subway, I heard the music and I recognized it,” said Jose Rojas, who’d brought his family from Douglaston, Queens, to the Central Park Zoo. He said they were thrilled to catch the Peruvian dancers going by.

“I wasn’t expecting to see it,” he said.

For some, like Edith Castro, 28, who lives in Brooklyn but was born in Mexico, it was a chance to feel like a small part of a larger Latin whole. For others, like Kenneth Mendoza, 26, who hails from New Jersey but was decked out in Peruvian gear, it’s about standing out from the crowd.

“It’s the first year in a long time we actually got a chance to come,” said Mendoza said. “We had to represent, obviously. Once our float goes by, we’ll just go wild.”

For Calderon, the diversity of the observers, as much as the countries they represent, is what makes the parade a can’t-miss event.

“(New Yorkers) don’t look at this diversity,” she said. “Diversity is what makes the world beautiful.”



Source: http://www.dnainfo.com/20111009/midtown/hispanic-pride-on-display-at-midtown-parade#ixzz1aKkBXjiA