I know that this is going to P.O. somebody. I spent 10 years driving around Mexico. I saw a truck loaded with goats crash. The passers by stole all the goats and didn't think twice about the injured driver and passenger. When a freight truck crashes, the locals feel that they are entitled to the damaged cargo. It is their due.
I've watched latinos in the auto parts store shove stuff in the clothes of their kids and then send them out under the turnstile.
There is a big difference between educated people who want to come to the U.S. to expose themselves to "white collar" opportunities and poor people who sneak in here to find low-paying work.
I have a friend from Toulouse who came here to be a cinematographer. She pays every penny of her taxes even though she could avoid a big part. She learned English and stays out of trouble.
Mexico's history of revolution was generally against wealthy landowners;
http://www.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resou ... _1810.html
I see an attitude of; "the rich owe it to us". This is true at ALL levels. The Mexican GOV has regularly expropriated land from private individuals to distribute to the landless. The attitude permeates society that the well-off must share. The redistribution of land is generally a disaster. Many of the poor are poor because they lack motivation and / or education.
The majority of Latinos that come here are just looking for an opportunity to do honest work,,, just like my friend from France. They still harbor the idea that the rich owe them something that they didn't work for.
If you recall the "Rodney King" riots, there is extensive video of people looting like it was a big party. When the big storm hit the Yucatan peninsula a few years ago, it was the same thing. Everybody was looting like it was a big party.
Contrast that with storms in Florida where people hunker down and try to help each other.
Immigrants who have no interest, other than financial, in their adopted country have little interest in supporting integrity of society. Immigrants who desire to make their adopted country their HOME, are far more willing to support the structure of their adopted home. Since so many latinos have close proximity to their country of origin, they are far less likely to mentally leave-behind their country of birth.
You've probably heard about the incident at Montebello high;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montebello ... g_incident
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/mexicoflag.asp
if Montebello wasn't involved why didn't they call the cops?
The snopes account sounds pretty pathetic. Supposedly the Montebello students did not participate. By placing the Mexican flag above the upside-down American flag, they showed that Mexico was the country that they associated with. This isn't any different than the problem in GOV of having dual-citizenship israelis dictating American policy.
It's a question of divided loyalties.
I don't post things because I believe that they are the absolute truth. I post them because I believe that they should be considered.
