Herman Badillo joins the show of Analeh

The new and popular - El Show de Analeh - a half-hour Spanish TV talk show, which airs on CH18 Univision, recently interviewed nationally known Herman Badillo who was the nation's first Puerto Rican-born congressman and the author of the controversial new book One Nation One Standard.

In this book Herman Badillo tells it straight: Hispanics simply don't put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups in America.

Why aren't Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America?
The answer is as politically incorrect as the question.

Herman Badillo will tell it to you straight: Hispanics simply don't put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups in America.

Orphaned in Puerto Rico, raised in New York since childhood, and experienced in the political arena, he's not afraid of the "stereotyping" charge. As the nation's first Puerto Rican-born U.S. congressman, the trailblazing Badillo supported bilingual education and other government programs he thought would help the Hispanic community.

But Badillo came to see that the real path to prosperity, political unity, and the American mainstream is self-reliance, not big government. Now Badillo's a Giuliani-style Republican and a champion of one standard of achievement for all races and ethnicities.

In this surprising and controversial manifesto, you will learn:

• Why Hispanic culture's trouble with education, democracy, and economics stems from Mother Spain and the "five-hundred year siesta" she induced in Latin America.
• What changed the mind of the man who drafted the first Spanish-English bilingual education legislation in Congress and made him realize that it hurt students more than it helped them.
• Why "social promotion"-putting minority students' self-esteem ahead of their academic performance and then admitting them to college unprepared-continues to this day, despite the system's documented failures and injustices.
• How self-identifying as "Hispanic" or "white" or "black" undermines achievement, and what lessons we can learn from Latin American countries, where one's race is irrelevant.

With Central and Latin America exporting a large portion of their poor, Hispanics are on the way to becoming a majority in the United States . . . but one with all the problems of a minority culture. Badillo's solution to this problem relies on traditional values: hard work, education, and achievement. His lessons are important not only for Hispanics but for every American.

In photo: Guests Back Row: David Medina, Hartford Courant and Communication Media students from Capital Community College who produced this show featuring Herman Badillo. Front Row: Glaisma Perez-Silva, Counselor, Capital Community College; Herman Badillo, Author, One Nation One Standard and Ana Alfaro, Host, El Show de Analeh.