European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D business newsstand and tobacco shop owned by other Indian immigrants. Indians Are helping each other he says. If i come irom India i won t know where to go i will go to an Indian and he will give me the  South asian immigrants including indians pakistanis and bangladeshis have helped increase the number of sidewalk Newsstands by 30 in the last two years to almost 300. The Trade had sunk to All time lows in the Early 80s. South asians operate almost All the stands in the subway system according to the metropolitan transportation authority. The manager of the City s biggest newsstand in the Loyer of the pan am building is a dentist from Dhaka Bangladesh. And while official figures Aren t kept almost one Quarter of the cily s above ground Kiosk operators have South asian sounding names City records show. They Are very visible. When you Walic in new York you see dozens of Indian Newsstands within a few blocks says parmatma Saran a sociology professor at Baruch College and author of the asian Indian experience in the United slates who emigrated from India in 1967. Most see it As a Stopgap arrangement because it s hard work 16 to 18 hours a Day Saran says. Anyone i be talked to has told me they do not intend to stay in  Saran says thai like koreans professional indians came to the United slates in the late 60s under the . Government s preferred status policy they later invited less educated relatives to join them the Indian Community in now York now numbers about 40,000. Greeks still wheel food Carls in times Square and own All night Coffee shops but puerto Picans and recent hispanic immigrants Are entering he food Trade. More and More greeks Are hiring dominicans to work in their restaurants because there Aren l enough greeks logo around. In fact the number of greek immigrants is shrinking Only 624 were registered in new York last year and greek consulate officials say More greeks Are returning Home than coming to the City taxi driven traditionally reflect new York immigration trends and in the last sin months the number of haitian cabbies has surged according to Ronald Stoppelman president of the metropolitan taxi Board of Trade the immigrant coming to this country does t know about the 40-hour  he says " the More he works the More he makes " camber 12,1987 Edward James Olmos it one of Many hispanic actors who Are now popular in Hollywood hispanics Star in Hollywood by Felix Gutierrez associated press exy senor1tas and latin Iov efs Are giving Way to loss stereotyped hispanic images on movie screens Spanish words and music Are spicing up the pop charts and Abc has Jimmy smile and Edward James Olmos. Hispanic performers who were stuck Wilh band Ido and barfly roles Lor years arc now being cast in a wider Range of characters that Demon neither i hair culture nor their Talent. We re suddenly commercial which is something we never were before says Kabamba producer Luis Valdez who featured Linda Ron Slade la Slimy singing mexican corridor in a pcs special this tall. Ii could be a passing change but i like to think it s something  census Bureau estimates show 18.b million hispanics living in the United Stales up 30 percent irom 1980, and the figure could i 47 million by 2020 what s More a younger median age and larger households than National norms Mako . Hispanics a prime audience Lor movies and advertising. Hollywood s hispanic performers now find it helps to be assertively ethnic. Bui it was l always so facing discrimination hispanic Talent once took new names to gain roles. Rila Cansino became Rita Hayworth and Ramon Estevez became Martin Sheen now some performers be Ronstadt who is half mexican Are reclaiming their tools one of Sheen s sons performs As Emilio Estenoz another is Charlie Sheen. Singers from Ronstadt to Madonna Are using Spanish lyrics in their songs. Ronstadt is issuing an album of mexican ranchers Madonna Sang Spanish phrases in her hits la Isla Bonita and who s thai girl and Sling is releasing a Spanish language version of the song fragile. Noting the Success of this year s la Samba and his earlier Ballad of Gregorio Cortez emmy winning actor Edward James Olmos said movies in recent years have seen a tremendous breaking Down of the stereotypes but it s no fasl  Olmos who plays it. Martin Castillo on Abc s Miami vice says television has been sewer to increase and improve hispanic images. Television has a Ormula and they tend to stay Wilh the formula longer than in film Olmos says. Aside irom a few shows including Jimmy Smits portrayal of attorney Victor Sifuentes on Abc s la Law few prime time to shows cast hispanics As featured players. When hispanics do appear on television their images Are less positive than Blacks or Whites according to a recent study Bath Black and hispanic roles have increased since the 1950s, but Lalino gains Are not As dramatic As Blacks says Dan Amundson of the Washington do. Based Center or Media and Public affairs co author of prime time prejudice to s images of Blacks and hispanics. In a study of minority images in 620 randomly selected network television shows from 1955 to 1986. Researchers Lound Black characters increased from one in 200 Belore 1975 to one in 11 since 1975 by contrast Only one character in 50 is hispanic about Iho same As 30 years ago forty percent of the television hispanic Chwa Clurs in the study Woro cast in negative roles higher than Blacks 25 percent 01 whiles 33 percent. Hispanic characters were three 1