Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quartefinals, Pandole lost to 17-year old Mexican sensation Juarda Rodriquez...
Three of the people working most closely on solving the Mexican debt crisis are Harvard graduates--President Madrid, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's minister of budget and planning, and Elliott Abrams '69, United States assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs...
Unbelievably, the quality of life in Tijuana is high by Mexican standards. But for Grossman the only standard by which to evaluate the position of others is her privileged...
...borrow a phrase, is "arrogance cloaked as humility." I do not question the authenticity of Grossman's concern for an underprivileged group. Indeed, I find it laudable. But when such concern is untempered by considered reflection it can lead to irresponsible conclusions, in this case the assertion that Mexican laborers are slaves. This assertion is insulting for three reasons...
...which does not match the American middle class is worthless--the equivalent of slavery. This conceit is often expressed in terms of genuine sympathy and a desire for greater equality (though not at one's own expense), yet it inevitably carries an undertone of contempt: sympathy for the poor Mexican grounded in the judgment that his life is not worth living...