Word: mexicanization
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...results are schizophrenic. The government promotes Cubacel, a joint telephone venture with Mexican businessmen -- and the government organizes a new category of medals called Combatants of the Revolution to keep old-think alive. While shops for Cubans stock a few rusted kitchen knives and cardboard toys, shiny Nissans carry tourists to refurbished hotels equipped with Sony TVs tuned...
...American group Black 47, which mixes rap, reggae and traditional Irish melodies, has appeared on both the Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The Los Angeles rap trio Cypress Hill, which includes an Italian American, a Cuban American and a member who is of Cuban and Mexican descent, released a hit album this year that started out at No. 1 on Billboard magazine's album chart. Latin music has become such a significant force in pop music that MTV recently launched MTV Latino as a separate Spanish-language edition...
...would be easy, seeing all this, to say that the world is moving toward the Raza Cosmica (Cosmic Race), predicted by the Mexican thinker Jose Vasconcelos in the '20s -- a glorious blend of mongrels and mestizos. It may be more relevant to suppose that more and more of the world may come to resemble Hong Kong, a stateless special economic zone full of expats and exiles linked by the lingua franca of English and the global marketplace. Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city- regions, or technopoles, all plugged into...
...traditional metaphor for this is that of a mosaic. But Richard Rodriguez, the Mexican-American essayist who is a psalmist for our new hybrid forms, points out that the interaction is more fluid than that, more human, subject to daily revision. "I am Chinese," he says, "because I live in San Francisco, a Chinese city. I became Irish in America. I became Portuguese in America." And even as he announces this new truth, Portuguese women are becoming American, and Irishmen are becoming Portuguese, and Sydney (or is it Toronto?) is thinking to compare itself with the "Chinese city" we know...
Because most Americans are themselves descendants of immigrants, there has traditionally been a laissez-faire attitude toward all forms of immigration. While there is a growing backlash against stereotypical nonwhite illegals -- the Mexican wetback, the smuggled Chinese -- one group for which undocumented status is generally just a temporary inconvenience is the Irish. Thanks to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990, which included a liberal green-card lottery pushed through by Irish-American politicians, thousands of Irish have been legalized. Most of the estimated 37,000 illegal Irish in the U.S. who have not yet won a green card...