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...picture Perot paints of Mexico ignores that nation's growing trend toward democratization and modernization. To rally opposition to NAFTA, Perot often relies on a portrait of Mexico as dirty, corrupt and backward. He uses border pollution as a code to conjure up stereotypical images of filthy Mexicans. (Though few would have guessed he is a closet tree-hugger, Perot is not above dressing in green when it suits his needs...
Finally, Perot presents an outdated portrayal of Mexico as backward, in order to counter arguments that NAFTA would create an open Mexican market for U.S. products. Challenged on his claim that NAFTA won't increase U.S. exports to Mexico, Perot casually claims that Mexicans are too poor to buy anything. "Let's do business with a country whose people can buy things," he said in last night's debate with Vice President Al Gore...
...much been that sort of person my entire life." Born New Year's Eve 1937 in Port Talbot, Wales, the son of a master confectioner and baker, Hopkins entered the Cardiff School of Music and Drama to study piano. "I was a poor student," he says, "very slow, very backward. I drifted into acting because, literally, I had nothing better...
Korea has been called a "little dragon" and the "next Japan," a country poised on the brink of economic superpower status. But this notion has blinded some observers to the fact that at many levels, Korea remains a backward country. For starters, the military controlled the presidency for 32 often brutal years from...
...very clear that we can envision all we want, but unless those five or six [landlords] agree with that vision, we're going to continue going forward to go backward," said Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves...