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Graphic Queen <graphicxoxoqueen@xxxhotmail.com> wrote in message news:<196l1014gsh7ocvjdfebmp3vkk9rkmek3r@4ax.com>...
> January 28, 2004
> 
> Memo From Mexico, By  Allan Wall 
> Diversity Is Strength. It?s Also Litter.
> 
> http://www.vdare.com/awall/litterbugs.htm
> 
> Here in Mexico, people toss out litter with reckless abandon. You can
> see it everywhere?on vacant lots, roadsides, even in irrigation
> channels. When irrigation season rolls around, it just flows
> downstream.
> 
> You don?t have to take my word for it. The Mexican government says the
> same thing!
> 
> SEMARNAT (Secretar�a de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), the
> Mexican equivalent of the EPA, reported in 2001 that only 53% of the
> trash in Mexico winds up in officially-designated landfills and dump
> sites. The remaining 47% is tossed outside ?in valleys, roads, vacant
> lots, bodies of water and 'clandestine dumpsites'?. 
> 
> There?s a whole class of workers in Mexico who make a living by
> selling objects they pick out of trash dumps. They even have a word
> for that occupation- pepenador. And 15,000 families live in trash
> dumps!
> 
> As another SEMARNAT document describes the situation: ?Trash has
> become a persistent element in our surroundings....? 
> 
> So yes, there is definitely a problem.
> 
> Don?t get me wrong. I?m not saying all Mexicans toss out litter (my
> Mexican wife doesn?t, I hasten to add). And I don?t deny that there is
> a problem with litter in the U.S. (That?s why they started fining
> people for littering on the highway).
> 
> Generally speaking though, littering is more socially accepted in
> Mexico than in the United States.
> 
> Allow me to share a few observations from Mexico that illustrate the
> problem:
> 
> 
> Once when I was riding a public bus, I saw a mother literally training
> her young son to toss a wrapper out the window. 
> On another occasion, a public holiday, I visited a public park that
> was filled with persons from the lower socioeconomic strata. By the
> end of the day, this beautiful park was trashed. I mean, there was
> litter everywhere, despite the ready availability of trashcans. A real
> eyesore. 
> I once visited the basilica complex of the Virgin of Guadalupe in
> Mexico City. The Virgin of Guadalupe is considered Mexico?s patron
> saint, and belief in her regarded by many as essential to Mexican
> identity. You would think that here, of all places, people wouldn?t
> litter. But no, the pious pilgrims trashed the Basilica complex just
> like any other place. 
> Once when I was hiking in a canyon, I observed that after I left the
> canyon?s entrance and proceeded inward, I stopped seeing litter. Well,
> I reckoned, nobody?s been here in a long time. I fancifully wondered
> if I was the first person to ever enter that canyon. Probably not, but
> it had been a while. 
> There are Mexicans who are concerned about this problem and wish to
> improve it. 
> 
> Schools try to instill respect for the environment. And there are more
> public trash cans than there used to be. 
> 
> SEMARNAT launched its Cruzada por un M�xico Limpio (Crusade for a
> Clean Mexico), with the laudable goal of ?achieving Cities and
> countrysides free of trash and toxic wastes, which negatively affect
> the health of the population.?
> 
> I wish them well. Mexico is a country with beautiful natural scenery,
> which is marred by all that trash.
> 
> But the consciousness-raising has a long way to go. 
> 
> In the meantime, illegal Mexican immigrants stream into the United
> States, and bring their propensity to litter with them. They treat the
> Arizona desert like ? well, they treat it like they treat their own
> country, dumping trash with reckless abandon. (See here and here).
> Arizona ranchers are expected to just put up with this. 
> 
> In contrast, George W. Bush doesn?t have that problem on his Crawford
> ranch. Not having to live with the consequences, our president can
> afford to be an illegal-immigration booster. 
> 
> But the immigration litter problem is not limited to the border region
> or California, though that would be bad enough. Reports from places as
> far removed as Long Island and Washington State associate litter
> problems with large groups of Mexican immigrants, often of the illegal
> persuasion. 
> 
> We are constantly lectured about how enriching ?diversity? is.
> However, we are not supposed to speak publicly about the diverse
> manner in which diverse social groups treat the environment. 
> 
> It?s become one of those taboo subjects. Occasionally though, it does
> crop up. 
> 
> A 2002 article from Washington State (Wind isn?t only culprit in
> roadside litter, Marty Toohey, Tri-City Herald, May 13th, 2002)
> decries the litter problem in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. One
> of the problems is human waste in plastic bags being tossed out on the
> highway.
> 
> Near the end of Toohey?s article, you find this interesting
> information: 
> 
> ?The Department of Ecology's advertising campaign on TV and radio
> originally was broadcast only in English, until Baasch and several
> others requested a Spanish version, which began airing over the past
> two weeks.?
> 
> Hmmm.  The article continues....
> 
> ?Theresa Quezada, president of the Hispanic Outreach Leadership
> Alliance in Pasco, said that although Mexico is becoming more litter
> conscious as its tourism industry grows, many of its emigrants come
> from areas where litter is culturally accepted and aren't told what is
> expected in the United States.?
> 
> So what?s Quezada?s solution?
> 
> ?She said the Tri-Cities could benefit from increased focus on
> educating incoming citizens about cultural expectations, and that the
> classroom is the best place to do it.?
> 
> Education (at public expense)? Oh, really?
> 
> I have a better strategy. Tighten the border. Enforce employer
> sanctions. And quit encouraging illegal immigration! 
> 
> We have enough problems in our country without importing more people
> who toss garbage and trash all over the place. 
> 
> American citizen Allan Wall lives and works legally in Mexico, where
> he holds an FM-2 residency and work permit, but serves six weeks a
> year with the Texas Army National Guard, in a unit composed almost
> entirely of Americans of Mexican ancestry. His VDARE.COM articles are
> archived here; his FRONTPAGEMAG.COM articles are archived here; his
> website is here. Readers can contact Allan Wall at
> allan39@prodigy.net.mx.

The mixed breed hispanic, the mestizo, has the same sanitary habits as
the negro. Just visit their neighborhoods and look for yourself.

Hank