So really, the better indicator of how well the children of immigrants will do is not their race/ethnicity/skin color, but the education level achieved by their parents.  Is this different than for other groups?  Why is this even a news story?  Oh wait, its NOT.

Perhaps the only yardstick by which the second generation has achieved unambiguous success is the one that has stirred the most public controversy: English proficiency. Despite fears among some people that English usage is diminishing in the Latino community, census data and several studies indicate that by the second generation, nearly all Latinos are fluent in English and that by the third generation, few can even speak Spanish.

The second generation's lack of success on educational and economic fronts is largely explained by their immigrant parents' extremely low starting point. Forty percent of second-generation Latino children are born to parents who never completed high school. Only 12 percent have a parent with a college degree or higher.

Second-generation Latinos struggle for a higher foothold - washingtonpost.com

My instincts are that its a way to feel good about buying yourself that shiny new iPod.  A way for the marketers to help assuage your guilt of being just another consumer.  Isn't it better, especially for the recipients of any donation, for people to donate directly? Of course, you'll want to research the organization you donate to pretty thoroughly. 

RED has a mixed message that may create confusion among consumers. On the one hand, slogans like "Buy Red. Save Lives" might be taken to mean that consumers are making a direct charitable contribution. But then RED says that the campaign is NOT a charity but a sustainable business model: "The company pays extra -- the purchaser does not." This lack of clarity contributes to the Byzantine structure shown above, in which the consumer never knows who is paying how much to whom.

Cui Bono? The murky finances of Project (RED)™

The FeedAPi module is a nice little workhorse module that can create nodes out of item from an RSS or Atom feed. Couple it with the Views module, you have a very low effort aggregation solution. But since FeedAPI creates a node for each item, Views will link to the node on your own site when it lists the imported items. You may actually want to link directly to the original article, in which case you have to do a little more click work.

Some possible solutions

You could write your own custom_url_rewrite_outbound function, and always replace the drupal path with the external url. Using this function is called frequently, and it replaces the link everywhere it appears. You lose some flexibility in that you could never link to the node page for the feedapi item.

You could rewrite the link by theming the output of the View, but this is tedious. You'd have to redo the work if you switch themes or make it work with a base theme + sub theme setup, if possible.

The Views UI provides a way to rewrite the output of most fields, we can exploit this to link the title to the original URL, with a couple of clicks. Only losers program nowadays anyway.

Rewriting the title link

This only works if you are using the Fields row style in your view. I assume you've already created your view, and that it includes the Node: Title field. To rewrite the title link:

1. Add the orginal url to your view by clicking on the plus button to add a new field and check FeedAPI Item: URL, in the following screen mark the Exclude from Display checkbox and press the update button.
2. Reorder the fields so that the FeedAPI Item: URL field is above your Node: Title field. If you don't do this, it won't show up as a replacement term in the next step.
3. Click on Node: Title to edit it. Mark the Output this field as a link option and put the FeedAPI Item: URL replacement term in the text input for Link Path. Uncheck the Link this field to its node option and press the Update button.
4. Save your changes.

The replacement pattern may vary, but now you should have a view where the title links to the original post.