Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Latino-American families now live among whites. Both groups are fast assimilating into the socio-economic mainstream. According to the Census Bureau, now almost a quarter of all Asian-Americans' marriages are marriages with whites (the rate is 65 percent for Japanese-Americans). In California, already half of all Mexican-Americans choose non-Hispanic spouses (the rate is 13 percent for Latinos as a whole). The Black intermarriage rate, by contrast, stands at only 2.2 percent...
...need to separate the emotions and politics of the debate from the economic reality," said Antonia Hernandez, president and general counsel for the Mexican Defense fund...
...lights, blue-draped dais, place cards, Congressmen, a sprinkling of average Americans and the President, headlining another health- care forum. The audience of 150 Kansas business owners was treated to the spectacle of the nation's President, looking every bit the Accountant in Chief, doing business math for a Mexican-restaurant owner, a flower-shop owner, an architect, a construction-company owner and a farmer. Their chief concern was how much money they personally would fork over if his plan became law. Regina Jaramillo was worried about insuring the part-timers at her restaurant. "At 7.9%," Clinton patiently explained, "then...
...could come to this. Smokers may soon need to organize themselves into an underground religion, elevating cigarettes to sacramental status, as the Mexican Indians did to peyote. For what was once a seductive pleasure is now an endangered cult, subject to demonization by the fuming, nonsmoking majority. "Like wars of religion," writes Richard Klein in Cigarettes Are Sublime, "the campaign against smoking lends itself to cruel fanaticism and self-righteous indignation." People who would never dare chastise a co-worker for his body odor or four-letter vocabulary will demand of a smoker, "When you gonna give up that awful...
...content to champion gay rights, HQ bent over backwards to become even more politically correct than it currently is (quite a fear). The recent issue examines not only the experiences of those ordinary bisexuals, gays and lesbians, but the experiences of African-American, Mexican-American and Jewish gays and lesbians. A veritable cornucopia of "difference...