Puerto Ricans: Vidal and Community Programs

puerto ricans: They also tried chico, but that didn't get to him either, according to NOW Magazine. Vidal recognized chico as a slur in the US against Puerto Ricans and other Latinos. When Francisco Vidal arrived in Toronto as a refugee from El Salvador civil war in 1991, his classmates called him spic, a word he didn't understand. But as a Salvadoran new to Canada, it wasn't part of his history. They tried to offend me with some other people insult, says Vidal, who manages community programs at the Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples in Toronto. The bullies didn't have the cultural knowledge to get under his skin. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.