Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the security of academic life in America, Harvard's Mexican students say they are feeling the effects of a weakened peso...
...project's coordinators all say they agreethat it is essential for the Loker Commons to beversatile. Riley says he believes that the commonswill contain a pizza counter, a mexican foodcounter, a sweet shop, a selfcontained cafe, anewsstand, and something he calls "electronicservices...
...only to government contracts exceeding $100,000 and will not be retroactive. "This is a political move on the part of the president to ingratiate himself with the labor unions," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl, who pointed out that Clinton previously alienated the unions by backingNAFTAandbailing out the Mexican economy...
Cross-border strains are rare here. The Mexicali Cineplex offers a choice among Nell, Speechless, Junior and Disclosure. At the border checkpoint, housewives flood through turnstiles heading for Calexico's Wal-Mart. Calexico's mayor is Mexican American, as are most residents. Even on the university campus in Mexicali, says student-body president Pedro Ariel Mendivil, anti-American slogans are virtually unheard of. ``That's old-fashioned politics,'' he says, adding that he hopes to earn a master's degree in the U.S. to gain foreign experience. He will not emigrate, however: ``I love Mexico passionately. We have...
...Mexican anthropologist Roger Bartra sees ``a revolution in the way the Mexican views the gringo.'' In the past, he says, ``the ruling classes emphasized our acute differences with the Anglo-Saxons in order to affirm our separate identity. But now hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans have built bridges to the U.S. The frontier has become but a minor inconvenience. Perhaps it is utopian, but I look forward to its disappearance.'' From south of the border, at least, Mex-America beckons...