Word: criollos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what unites yesterday's conservatives with today's radicals is not only a just anti-imperialism, but also the authoritarian and antidemocratic temple. In the Mexican middle class, the breeding ground of our leaders, it is common to rind an amalgam of the conservative sentiments of the criollos [Mexicans of pure Spanish blood] of the 19th century with the diffuse anti-imperialist ideology of the 20th. These traditional beliefs, heirs of the criollo aristocracy, are the unconscious psychological foundation and the hidden source of the modern authoritarian ideologies professed by many Mexican intellectuals and politicians...