May 26th 09, 09:26 PM
>>"What Americans don't comprehend is that, although Mexico doesn't have a Color Line, it has an insidious Color Continuum. Latin American immigration will push us toward an even more extensive racial caste system than the white-black gap that has so long troubled us.
As my last column showed, the corruption of Mexican political life
that grows out of this hereditary inequality should certainly give us
pause.
Mexico's top political scientist Jorge G. Castaneda described the
striking human disparities in Mexico like this:
"But the inequality is not simply economic; it is also social. A
government undersecretary (one level down from the top echelon of
public service) earned in 1994 (prior to devaluation) approximately
$180,000 after taxes … -- almost twice what his U.S. counterpart
earned before taxes. His chauffeur (provided by the government, of
course) made about $7,500 a year. The official addresses the employee
with the familiar "tu," while the latter must speak to the former with
the respectful "usted." The official and his peers in the business and
intellectual elites of the nation tend to be white (there are
exceptions, but they are becoming scarcer), well educated, and well
traveled abroad. They send their two children to private schools,
removed from the world of the employee. The employee and his peers
tend to be mestizo, many are barely literate, and they have four or
five children, most of whom will be able to attend school only through
the fifth grade." [The Atlantic, February, 1997 , "Ferocious
Differences"]
Readers in the American Southwest will find this portrait of life in
Mexico less and less alien. Of course, here our increasingly faux
egalitarian informality that de Tocqueville found so prevalent among
Americans dictates that wealthy white American masters insist that
their mestizo servants call them by their first name. Nor do whites
call their servants "servants," instead, laboriously describing them
as "the cleaning lady," "the babysitter," the "gardener," and so
forth. Still, as a description of America's future, the essentials are
about right. The big difference, of course, is that to prevent
mestizos from "becoming scarcer" in elite jobs in America, we offer
them anti-discrimination bureaucracies and quotas.
How did Mexico end up like this, despite twenty generations of
intermarriage? Surprisingly little is written about Mexico and race.
In the U.S., we aren't really aware of the wide racial range among
Mexicans since almost all Mexican-Americans are mestizos. This is
because the non-Spanish-speaking Indians of the Deep South have been
so downtrodden that until recently they lacked the confidence to
immigrate. (Mexican Indians who don't speak Spanish, however, have
been showing up in California in recent years. Since they haven't
assimilated into Hispanic culture in 480 years, perhaps Mr. Rodriguez
will inform us when they can be expected to assimilate into American
culture.) And Mexico's white elite finds life south of the border far
too sweet to come north for anything other than advanced degrees,
advanced medical care, and advanced shopping."<<
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/mexico_part2.htm
As my last column showed, the corruption of Mexican political life
that grows out of this hereditary inequality should certainly give us
pause.
Mexico's top political scientist Jorge G. Castaneda described the
striking human disparities in Mexico like this:
"But the inequality is not simply economic; it is also social. A
government undersecretary (one level down from the top echelon of
public service) earned in 1994 (prior to devaluation) approximately
$180,000 after taxes … -- almost twice what his U.S. counterpart
earned before taxes. His chauffeur (provided by the government, of
course) made about $7,500 a year. The official addresses the employee
with the familiar "tu," while the latter must speak to the former with
the respectful "usted." The official and his peers in the business and
intellectual elites of the nation tend to be white (there are
exceptions, but they are becoming scarcer), well educated, and well
traveled abroad. They send their two children to private schools,
removed from the world of the employee. The employee and his peers
tend to be mestizo, many are barely literate, and they have four or
five children, most of whom will be able to attend school only through
the fifth grade." [The Atlantic, February, 1997 , "Ferocious
Differences"]
Readers in the American Southwest will find this portrait of life in
Mexico less and less alien. Of course, here our increasingly faux
egalitarian informality that de Tocqueville found so prevalent among
Americans dictates that wealthy white American masters insist that
their mestizo servants call them by their first name. Nor do whites
call their servants "servants," instead, laboriously describing them
as "the cleaning lady," "the babysitter," the "gardener," and so
forth. Still, as a description of America's future, the essentials are
about right. The big difference, of course, is that to prevent
mestizos from "becoming scarcer" in elite jobs in America, we offer
them anti-discrimination bureaucracies and quotas.
How did Mexico end up like this, despite twenty generations of
intermarriage? Surprisingly little is written about Mexico and race.
In the U.S., we aren't really aware of the wide racial range among
Mexicans since almost all Mexican-Americans are mestizos. This is
because the non-Spanish-speaking Indians of the Deep South have been
so downtrodden that until recently they lacked the confidence to
immigrate. (Mexican Indians who don't speak Spanish, however, have
been showing up in California in recent years. Since they haven't
assimilated into Hispanic culture in 480 years, perhaps Mr. Rodriguez
will inform us when they can be expected to assimilate into American
culture.) And Mexico's white elite finds life south of the border far
too sweet to come north for anything other than advanced degrees,
advanced medical care, and advanced shopping."<<
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/mexico_part2.htm