BRRRRRING! A bell marks the end of another day of middle school, and suddenly the once-deserted narrow hallway, where six youths sit cross-legged on the gray-carpeted floor, is filled with a hundred other students. The six halt in midsentence and quickly grab their belongings -- a heavy black bag, pens, notebooks, clipboards, a tape recorder, a camera -- and disappear into a nearby classroom amid

L atino culture is more than tacos, pinatas and Ricky Martin. Western culture may have popularized these items, but they are not the essence of what it is to be Latino. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 40,459,196 people identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino in 2004, 5 million more than in 2000. But what does it mean to be Latino? To find out, Y-Press talked with two groups of young peopl