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To: DCPatriot
I don't mean to be a condescending "world traveler", but I get the feeling that very few people who bash Mexico on this website have ever been to Mexico. I'm not a big world traveler: I've only been to Canada, Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii (outside of the continental US.) But whenever I've been to Mexico, 80% of the Mexicans I've met have been very friendly and kind towards me and my family.

I sailed twice in the San Diego to Acapulco yacht race, and at the end we always went out to drink beer at the bars in Accapulco and celebrate. The locals just loved us, and real Acapulco cliff divers would walk up and show you the little scars on their forearms from hitting rocks on the sea floor after their dives. We went to middle class bars, not the bar at the Hilton, and people were really friendly and wanted to talk to us and meet us. This was over twenty years ago, but I don't think people have changed much down there. The drug cartels are more brutal and ruthless, but the average Mexican is kind and decent.

2,261 posted on 05/15/2006 8:10:03 PM PDT by defenderSD (Every rock guitarist I know seems to have an axe to grind.)
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To: defenderSD
That was my point...regarding the Mexican people.

To suggest the same fate that awaits Europe will afflict us is ludicrous on its face.

I am reminded tonight what somebody else just said about it being impossible to deport 12 million.

He/she typed..."Mexico did!"

2,332 posted on 05/15/2006 8:23:22 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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