Scoping Out Pepe

Fred Reed / Fred On Everything:
Gringos here in Mexico talk endlessly about how they love and admire the Mexican people, how friendly the natives are, how wonderful the culture is and, by strong implication, how wonderful the gringos are for appreciating Mexico. Actually they don’t. They live in gated communities in the hills, can’t speak three words of Spanish, and have surprisingly little contact with the country. They have invented a Mexico that doesn’t exist, and have fallen in love with it. Thus many of their idea about Mexicans are wrong, compounded equally of ideology and wishful thing. The same happens in America. This will one day give birth to surprising children.

Posted by Editor at March 27, 2008 02:02 AM