WMD MacheteMark Plimsoll LLC, 26/01/2011 - 564 من الصفحات The Pan-American "Huckleberry Finn" for the Twenty-first Century, a memoir of the young author's struggle with two realities, one Anglo-Saxon and the other Hispanic. In this picaresque "coming-of-age" memoir, we see a vision of North America's future in twenty-five years, when the Hispanic population becomes the majority and changes not only the demographics of the United States of America, but its culture. The author sweeps us along on a whirlwind of culture shock. He chronicles the adventures of a disgruntled industrial-age young man who feels a tribal and instinctual reluctance to accept the Third World's view of the United States, and America's foreign policy. But before he can assimilate the profound changes in language, culture, and reality, along comes a new relationship and an earthquake that stops a war only to kill twenty-two thousand people, and changes blind patriotism into something else. |
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... Panajachél." and then reached into my handful of bills to extract the ticket price with care. I put my backpack in the bus seat's overhead rack, used sign language to ask him to watch it for me. "No hay problema." I went outside to buy ...
... Panajachél." and then reached into my handful of bills to extract the ticket price with care. I put my backpack in the bus seat's overhead rack, used sign language to ask him to watch it for me. "No hay problema." I went outside to buy ...
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... Panajachél on the shore of Lake Atitlán, we could see across five miles of flat expanse of the lake to other tiny villages at the base of three volcanoes. A backdrop of blue sky cupped a milky humidity over the farthest horizon, the ...
... Panajachél on the shore of Lake Atitlán, we could see across five miles of flat expanse of the lake to other tiny villages at the base of three volcanoes. A backdrop of blue sky cupped a milky humidity over the farthest horizon, the ...
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... Panajachél earns the nickname Gringotenango, made from the word Gringo welded to Tenango which signifies "city" in Mayan. A few old colonial buildings ran along the street, pastel shades of painted stucco walls punctuated by doors ...
... Panajachél earns the nickname Gringotenango, made from the word Gringo welded to Tenango which signifies "city" in Mayan. A few old colonial buildings ran along the street, pastel shades of painted stucco walls punctuated by doors ...
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... Panajachél, in a community called Santa Catarina Palopó. People there prepare meals for travelers, and rent houses for a song. I hoped they might want to defray the rent in exchange for lessons in English, or something similar. I asked ...
... Panajachél, in a community called Santa Catarina Palopó. People there prepare meals for travelers, and rent houses for a song. I hoped they might want to defray the rent in exchange for lessons in English, or something similar. I asked ...
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... Panajachél, or Guatemala City, or Mexico. I said Estados Unidos, or the United States of America, and they looked blank. I got better reactions with California, Alaska. They kept up the repetitions of Ooo Sah until I realized they meant ...
... Panajachél, or Guatemala City, or Mexico. I said Estados Unidos, or the United States of America, and they looked blank. I got better reactions with California, Alaska. They kept up the repetitions of Ooo Sah until I realized they meant ...
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