Is This Really The Mexican Dream?
15 May 2009, 7:37 AM. By x111e7thst
“The real Mexican dream, not the false one, not the one that the intellectuals like myself make up, but the real one is that people leave for the United States, find a well-paying job, improve their income level slightly over time, eventually obtain papers, bring their family or create a family, build a family in the United States. And then later on in life, depending on their age and how they do, etc., maybe go home to Mexico to retire.”
Jorge Castaneda former Mexican Foreign Secretary .
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/15/nad_am_radke_q_castaneda/
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thats is so true…my parents have started building a home back in their native country so that it can be there when they retire!
This kind of seems true for my parents too… they are almost done building their house is Mexico. only problem is my mom doesn’t want to go back, my dad yes, he cant wait to leave but not my mom, maybe a couple months a year but not permanently. All her kids and grandkids are here and she is too used to everything she has access to here.
My parents never want to step foot in Mexico again, unless it’s vacation in Cancun for my mom.
Previous immigrants (late 1800’s, early 1900’s) never wanted to go back. They made America their home and wanted to be “American.” Today that is not the case, most immigrants are hyphenated; Mexican-american, Cuban-american…etc. While there is diversity there is also much division. Although it may be good for the individual, it is not for the whole.
You are overstating the rapidity with which previous waves of immigrant acculturated. The German experience in the upper mid west is a case in point. In a lot of smaller towns with a majority of German speakers the public schools were taught in German as well as English until after WWI. And a lot of families spoke only “broken” English well into the third generation. Actually if you study it impartially the Hispanic immigrant experience in the US is far less “different” than either idiots like Dobbs (squealing like a pig about Azatlan) or hispanic activists who cherish their exceptionalism because it conflates nicely with their sense of grievance think.