Poll: Identity, blending in important to Hispanics

This poll shows that Hispanics are keeping their culture and also assimilating and both are important. - - Donna Poisl

By JULIANA BARBASSA and JIM KUHNHENN (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO — Tomasa Bulux speaks Spanish to her children, maintains an altar at home representing her Mayan culture's view of the world and meets once a week with Mayan immigrants who speak her indigenous Quiche tongue.

At the same time, she's becoming a part of the diverse, cosmopolitan city she lives in. Her Guatemalan dishes share space on the table with experiments in cooking Thai or Arabic food. She's fluent in English and socializes with her European-American husband's English-speaking family as much as with other Hispanics.
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