Word: mexicanization
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...year-old Mexican immigrant from a working-class family. When we moved to El Paso 14 years ago, we had no knowledge of American culture and language or the obstacles we would face. Today I can proudly say that education has been the most valuable tool in enabling us to succeed in the U.S. As a physician, I understand the need to improve life on the border. These underdeveloped areas need more money for schools, health care and job creation--and the water necessary to survive. JUAN R. PEREZ, M.D. El Paso, Texas...
...overlooked the nonstereotypical Mexican businesspeople who are fueling the U.S. economy, as well as the Mexican-educated professionals who are making contributions to the arts, science and technology. ALFONSO INIGUEZ Mesa, Ariz...
...Southern and Hoffenberg's nymphette, while scripter Buck Henry (dare this hardcore Southern fan say it) actually improves upon the novel in two bizarrely funny sequences: Candy's worshipful encounter with drunk Welsh poet McPhisto (Richard Burton), leading to a more-than-peculiar basement menage a quatre involving her Mexican gardener (a "Pepper"-era Ringo Starr doing an incredibly awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry and director Christian Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful...
...every time I flew home from school, I would go back to Pilsen and buy a box of 20 dozen tortillas that I would take on the plane and stuff into the tiny freezer of my fifth-floor walk-up on West 108th Street, where I was the first Mexican on the block...
...Being Mexican in Chicago meant something. I had a barrio there; I had paisanos there; there were murals and and taquerias, rancheras and pinatas. The border was a long way away. It would take our family three full days of driving from Chicago just to get to Mexico--much less to visit our relatives in Mexico City, Tampico, Guadalajara and Yucatan...