<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Visual Boutique LLC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Designing and selling Graphic T-shirts with a POD. Writing a blog and making content for dissemination on various media platforms. ]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:29:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thevisualboutique.com/es/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Pledge of Allegiance ]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I was a child, we recited the Pledge of Allegiance in school. We would gather in the Auditorium. The Flag was on the right side of the stage. Everyone would stand and place their right hand over their heart. Then all together, we would recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I don’t remember how I felt about it, or if I understood the promise I was making. Now that I’m an old man, I get the key concepts. The Republic represents the country's form of government, where power rests with the...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/the-pledge-of-allegiance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3c3d20a6b1dcc288e38611</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:27:50 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afro-Latin Population]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2019, there were 2.2 million Afro-Latins in the United States, nearly 1% of the total U.S. population. As a share of the Latino population, Afro-Latins represent 4% of U.S. Latinos and have doubled over the last two decades. From 2000 to 2019, the Afro-Latin population in the United States grew by 120.8%, almost twice the growth rate for non-Black Latinos over the same period. Latinos and Latinidad are not a monolith and Afro-Latinidad is Latinidad. To be in Latino solidarity is to...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/afro-latin-population</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f2aa4f67805a6f93ec8aed</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:45:28 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA]]></title><description><![CDATA[Domingo Santo Liotta was an Argentine surgeon and pioneer of heart surgery who created multiple cardiac prostheses, including the first total artificial heart. Liotta was a member of medical societies around the world. He owned 12 patents in the USA, Argentina and France. Domingo Santo Liotta, the son of Italian immigrants, was born in the city of Diamante, Entre Rios. He completed his primary education at his hometown at "Independencia School", and his secondary education at the "Justo Jose...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f2a9f166d082d71b36334c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:41:57 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latino anti-Black Racism]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a result of the rapid growth of the Hispanic population, there has been some tension with other minority populations, especially the African-American population, as Hispanics have increasingly moved into once exclusively Black areas. The United States has a population of over 60 million of Hispanic Americans, of whom 27 million are citizens eligible to vote (13% of total eligible voters); therefore, Hispanics have a very important effect on presidential elections since the vote difference...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/latino-anti-black-racism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f2a93a66d082d71b3631ea</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:40:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mr. Quibián Salazar-Moreno, a Panamanian American writer. Immigrated to Denver as a child and navigated multiple cultural transitions including his mother's death, his grandmother's arrival from Panama, and his father's remarriage to an Italian American. He maintains ties to his Panamanian heritage while raising his children to embrace their multicultural Afro-Latina background. Mr. Quibian Salazar-Moreno is a former hip-hop and video game journalist who's byline you might have seen in spaces...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f2a8a450873aaf5db2cc28</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:37:09 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hispanic Population]]></title><description><![CDATA[The number of Hispanic children grew from 2010 to 2020. The data show 1 in every 4 children, 25.7% (18.8 million), in the United States were of Hispanic origin in 2020, up from 23.1% (17.1 million) in 2010. States with the largest percentage point increases in their proportion of Hispanic children over the decade: Connecticut, up 6.5 percentage points; Maryland, up 6.5; Rhode Island, up 6.2; New Jersey, up 5.9; and Florida, up 4.9. Among them, New Jersey and Florida each added over 100,000...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/the-hispanic-population</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f2a7cbe99ba78118225c93</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:34:20 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA 3]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rafael Edward Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A Republican Party member, whose father was born and raised in Cuba. Mr. Cruz began using the moniker "Ted" at age 13. Mr. Ted Cruz’s book, “A Time For Truth,” is part memoir and part political mission statement. He writes at length about the influence his father’s journey to the United States has had on him. Growing up in Cuba and fighting...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d822a9a9706ca89314950b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:46:56 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americanos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Book by Edward James Olmos, Lea Ybarra, Manuel Monterrey Little, Brown, 1999 - Photography - 176 pages This spirited photo book was part of an unprecedented campaign. It included, the HBO documentary and a Smithsonian traveling photography exhibit highlighting the vital contributions of Latinos in all aspects of American culture. More than thirty award-winning photographers fanned out across the country to capture life on neighborhood playgrounds, the streets of New York, and the banks of the...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/americanos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d821028febcff6405f0190</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:39:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA 4]]></title><description><![CDATA[I read this article and was inspired to design a T-shirt. Then after much procrastination, it also led me to write this Blog.   Hecho en America By Jeanne Marie Laskas, September 23, 2011 Between talk-radio blather and election-season bravado, it's easy to have an opinion about immigration, and easier to forget that people—actual people—pick our food. Now and then we might glimpse them out the car window, but few of us realize that what we eat depends on them, and fewer still have any idea...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd79c3860daee44b32ac61</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:44:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA 5]]></title><description><![CDATA[To serve in the Senate, nine years of citizenship are required, and the person must be 30 or older and live in the represented state. The foreign-born are not allowed to become U.S. president. If the speaker of the House was foreign-born, for example, he or she would be passed over for the position should the president and vice president die or leave office. Bernardo Moreno is a Colombian-born American politician and businessman, serving since 2025 as the senior United States senator from...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd78b7aef6910f9dd68764</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:40:25 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1972 I was in Cienaga, Colombia SA. My friends and I were enjoying Arepas de huevo and Guarapo, while waiting for the Ferry to Barranquilla. Carlos, who we called the Joker, played a song for me “Los Americanos.” He said it was Political, and that it made fun of America. I did not get it, maybe because I was 14. Now, I think it applies to everyone born on the American Continent. Listen to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXzmG0XT6s   Los Americanos (Piero) (some lyrics) Ellos...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/the-americans</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd77cee4f4a67f90e1ecf4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:36:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA 6]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marco Antonio Rubio was born May 28, 1971, in Miami, Florida. His parents were Cubans who immigrated to the United States in 1956. His parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of Marco's birth, they were naturalized in 1975. Mr. Rubio is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat serving since 2025 as the 72nd United States secretary of state. A member of the Republican Party, Rubio is also serving as acting national security advisor. Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-4</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd76c9d21422e782188b76</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:32:41 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[America]]></title><description><![CDATA[An estimated nine million US residents live in “mixed-status” households that include at least one unauthorized adult and one or more US-born children. These children are in a unique political position: they enjoy the rights of US citizenship, but they are also confronted with the legal exclusion of their parents. The book, “Surviving the ICE Age, Children of Immigrants in New York,” by Joanna Dreby. (https://www.russellsage.org/publications/book/surviving-ice-age) She draws on interviews...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/america-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd7658860daee44b32a491</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:28:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA 7]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scott Gordon Perry is an American politician and retired Army National Guard brigadier general. He is the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district, and a member of the Republican Party. He was born in San Diego, California, to Cecile Lenig and Jim Perry. Scott's grandparents were Colombian immigrants. His mother was a flight attendant and left an abusive relationship with his father after he was born.  His family were on public assistance for several years during his...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd753e860daee44b32a1f9</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:26:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[America]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story about Latinos in America is an old one, and most of it isn’t true. It was created generations ago by Whites, to demonize Mexicans, and the racist caricature of Latinos as a menacing foreign monolith persists today. White gatekeepers in media, art and entertainment have long excluded or misrepresented Latinos, particularly Indigenous and Black Latinos. Fighting these old falsehoods is beginning to transform media and cultural power structures. “How Latinos Can Win the Culture War,...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/america-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd74cdb1109199a4030771</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:21:46 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA 8]]></title><description><![CDATA[Through history, 407 foreign-born Americans have served as members of Congress. That includes 347 immigrants who served in the House of Representatives, 45 who served in the Senate and 15 who served in both chambers. Raul Ruiz was born in Zacatecas City, Mexico. Mr. Ruiz is a Democrat, serving as the U.S. representative for California's 25th congressional district. He was the first Latino to receive three graduate degrees from Harvard University, attending Harvard Medical School, the John F....]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd743daef6910f9dd67d2c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:19:45 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Immigrating to the USA is a double-edged blade. They suffer abuse from the population, but they get to send money back home. Immigrants, including those who remit, contribute significantly to the US economy through their labor and consumption of goods and services. Remittance is more than three times as large as the total global foreign aid. An estimated $685 billion in 2024. A substantial share of remittance ends up in the hands of banks and money-transfer companies, due to fees imposed on...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/america-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cc78bd4658226ab73155d0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:26:43 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HECHO EN AMERICA 9]]></title><description><![CDATA[Congress has lawmakers for whom the immigrant experience is a personal one: At least 64 of the current 529 voting members of Congress are immigrants or the children of immigrants. There are 12 foreign-born members of the 115th Congress – 11 representatives and one senator. At least 52 other members were born in the United States or its territories, to at least one immigrant parent. Including 37 in the House and 15 in the Senate. Mr. Adriano de Jesús Espaillat Rodríguez is an Afro-Latino,...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/hecho-en-america-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cc77364658226ab73151b0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:23:36 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why people think that the only Americans come from the USA. I blame Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Martin Waldseemüller. Columbus, because he thought he was in East Asia, and Vespucci for correcting him. But Waldseemüller the map maker did the worst, by coining the term America and putting it on a Map. America is inscribed on the Paris Green Globe 1506, attributed to Waldseemüller. The single name inscribed on the northern and southern parts of the New...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/america</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cc76c5aef6910f9dd43a5e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:17:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[América]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Spanish, América is a single continent composed of the subcontinents of América del Sur and América del Norte, the land bridge of América Central, and the islands of the Antillas. Americano or Americana in Spanish refers to a person from América.   Citizens of the United States of America are normally referred to by the term Estadounidense (rough literal translation: "United Statesian"). The country's name itself is officially translated as Estados Unidos de América (United States of...]]></description><link>https://www.thevisualboutique.com/post/am%C3%A9rica</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cc76664658226ab7314f99</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:16:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Eddie Perry</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>