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besides me, spoke with an English accent and the stewardess came over and I looked at the guy and he didn't smoke or drink. I said "Thank you I can't have a drink". He didn't have one either, but it was on a Sunday. It didn't sound to good so I was very, the whole concept of Religion and all of this was pretty well hanging over our heads. When we were about to land, though, the gentleman said "I think I'd better have a drink, because we are about  to land in Iowa, and in Iowa you can't drink on Sundays". This kind of promoted my feelings about Iowa but at the same time it sis away the feeling about the man sitting besides me. I did have that stereo-type and I did think that all Iowans were pilgrims or Amish and that's the way that I feel and probably why alot of Iowans feel that all Mexicans sleep under a cactus too. But I have been involved ever since I got here. Three weeks after I got here I met 100 Chicanos from Iowa, and that was a refreshing thought to find that many people in so short of time. But it  just so happened that we had a state-wide meeting in Des Moines at that time. Today I would like to basically reflect on what has happened in our conference in the last two or three days, and possibly try to apply it to our problems in our movement in Iowa. Salvador Ramirez, as he indicated, calls us to react he points out the minimal restrictions of our educational settings and possibly the results of the very experience that the educational settings will give our Chicano students. He speaks of the washing of the mind

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besides me, spoke with an English accent and the stewardess came over and I looked at the guy and he didn't smoke or drink. I said "Thank you I can't have a drink". He didn't have one either, but it was on a Sunday. It didn't sound to good so I was very, the whole concept of Religion and all of this was pretty well hanging over our heads. When we were about to land, though, the gentleman said "I think I'd better have a drink, because we are about to land in Iowa, and in Iowa you can't drink on Sundays". This kind of promoted my feelings about Iowa but at the same time it sis away the feeling about the man sitting besides me. I did have that stereo-type and I did think that all Iowans were pilgrims or Amish and that's the way that I feel and probably why alot of Iowans feel that all Mexicans sleep under a cactus too. But I have been involved ever since I got here. Three weeks after I got here I met 100 Chicanos from Iowa, and that was a refreshing thought to find that many people in so short of time. But it just so happened that we had a state-wide meeting in Des Moines at that time. Today I would like to basically reflect on what has happened in our conference in the last two or three days, and possibly try to apply it to our problems in our movement in Iowa. Salvador Ramirez, as he indicated, calls us to react he points out the minimal restrictions of our educational settings and possibly the results of the very experience that the educational settings will give our Chicano students. He speaks of the washing of the mind