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Erik (dr.feinstein@DELETETHIS.mail.utexas.edu) wrote:
: On 25 Mar 1998 21:52:28 GMT, DKL8321@utarlg.uta.edu (Douglas K Long) wrote:

: >	Mexicans aren't a race.  But they do practice a culture that is
: >	demonstrably unsuccessful and incompatible with the culture of
: >	the USA.  Most Mexicans live in squalor while a handful live
: >	in opulence.  The society is the most deeply corrupt in the
: >	hemisphere.  The economy is looted from the top.  Mexico is
: >	rich in resources, yet it wallows in poverty and ignorance.
: >	The issue isn't racial; it's cultural.  

: I recall a certain tenured UT professor saying vaguely similiar things like that
: on national television and it earned him a large protest rally featuring Jesse
: Jackson, complaints filed with the associated office for such things, threats of
: lawsuits, and threats from certain nlegislators to terminate his emplyment.

: Unfortunately, he was proposing a hypothesis with roots in fact that no one
: wanted to hear or face...

	Frankly, I'd like to be proven wrong.  I'd like to claim that
	Mexico is a progressive, enlightened, egalatarian democracy
	where industry, commerce, science and the arts thrive.  
	Unfortunately, Mexico is none of that.  It's a narco-
	kleptocracy run by an oligarchy, a handful of families.
	Mexico needs and deserves a revolution.  But as long as
	we allow Mexico to move northward - that is, relieve
	Mexico of the pressures of its own problems, Mexico will
	not change.  And we, as long as Mexicans remain the
	colonists they seem to be, will diminish ourselves.


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