Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wandering far from their ostensible mandates. The Blue Chip Growth Fund, for example, was heavily invested in small and midsize companies. (Its manager, Michael Gordon, left Fidelity to work with Vinik.) Asset Manager, which was supposed to be a low-risk diversified fund, had 18% of its holdings in Mexican debt...
...energetic bounce of hip-hop. The band's lyrics also pack a punch: the new single, People of the Sun, is an attack on American foreign policy toward the anti-government Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico (Morello charges that the U.S. is supporting an oppressive Mexican government when it should be siding with the rebels...
...very familiar with the American immigrant experience. I am the son of an immigrant, and my cultural identity is and always will be an important part of who I am and how I view the world around me. I expect other Americans to respect the rich intricacies of Mexican culture. However, in exchange, other Americans, of all colors and creeds, deserve my respect of their institutions, their traditions...
...that if they are to be accepted by the United States, they must accept the United States, faults and all, in turn. They must show the proper respect for the country that is now theirs. Current English-only legislation will not impair my ability to live and celebrate my Mexican heritage or pass it on to my children. I will not be de-humanized by being required to deal with my government in English. The current bill requires only one very simple way for immigrants and their descendants to respect the country they have freely chosen to inhabit: to learn...
This concern is not baseless. Appearing on C-SPAN in an effort to defend this legislation, Rep. Toby Roth (R-Wis.) alluded to this trend of "Anglocentricity," stating, "We do not want any hyphenate Americans in this country; we do not want Italian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Korean-Americans...." Roth added that we will not repeat the mistakes of the former Soviet Union by allowing multiple languages in our country, thus causing its disintegration...