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...larger slice of the economic and political pie. Blacks, long accustomed to being the senior partner in the minority coalition, fear that those gains will come at their expense. Meanwhile, demagogues on both sides have pitted black against brown in a bid for short-term political advantage. Says Arthur Fletcher, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: "On a scale of 1 to 10, I would put Latino-black relations on the negative side...
...Hispanic leaders, says Alejandro Portes, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, "see everything as a zero-sum game. If blacks get something, Latinos lose something, and vice versa." Many African Americans believe that Latinos are benefiting from civil rights victories won by blacks with little help from Hispanics. Says Fletcher: "During the height of the civil rights movement, Hispanics were conspicuous by their absence. They kept asking, 'What about us?' But rather than joining us in fighting the system, Hispanics were fighting us for the crumbs. And that in large part is still what's going...
...constitutional limitations on their Kings. Almost three centuries of the so-called Tatar Yoke, which ended around 1480, effectively walled off the country from foreign influences, an isolation continued as a matter of policy by the Czars and later the commissars. In the late 16th century, Giles Fletcher the Elder, English ambassador to the czarist court, wrote that Russians were "kept from traveling that they may learn nothing, nor see the fashions of other countries" -- an observation that would still have been accurate a few years ago. Even today a powerful Slavophile movement regards Western ways as incompatible with...