Adolfo Guzman-Lopez covers higher education for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
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“You heard some of the students right here, they were mental health is only for those who are not well from their head, like someone needs to be out of control to get into mental health. So they don't really feel empathetic with that terminology," said Rojas-González.
“In the United States it's pretty normalized but when we are coming from Hispanic countries they tend to be newer words that once we come into the United States it's just something completely different for us,” he said.Because tuition is low and there are few admissions barriers, the community colleges are entry points to higher education.
It’s important for Spanish speakers “to see folks that are similar and I think we're seeing a trend where that's now shifting, where we have folks who are finishing their masters and our doctoral degrees, and they are being role models,” he said.“I learned about the immigrant syndrome and that there are many tools to overcome those challenges,” said Carla Bustamante, who moved to the U.S. from El Salvador eight years ago and lives in Sylmar.
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