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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... Didn't mom tell you to eat all your food, because children starve in Africa?" "Of course she did. So what? It's not my responsibility, so no guilt." "Come to Guatemala with me. It's exotic, like Asia, only two countries away. Think ...
... Didn't mom tell you to eat all your food, because children starve in Africa?" "Of course she did. So what? It's not my responsibility, so no guilt." "Come to Guatemala with me. It's exotic, like Asia, only two countries away. Think ...
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... didn't go well. I couldn't hear them, but seemed he spoke little Spanish. Even with the help of others as translators, they arrived at an impasse. He sighed in exasperation, leaned over with a shrug of finality, picked up his immense ...
... didn't go well. I couldn't hear them, but seemed he spoke little Spanish. Even with the help of others as translators, they arrived at an impasse. He sighed in exasperation, leaned over with a shrug of finality, picked up his immense ...
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... didn't look down at his filthy bare feet but strode fast, with a brisk swish as each callused foot stroked the floor. One hand held the cigarette up to his face. As he waded through the crowd, puffs of smoke marked his progress. I went ...
... didn't look down at his filthy bare feet but strode fast, with a brisk swish as each callused foot stroked the floor. One hand held the cigarette up to his face. As he waded through the crowd, puffs of smoke marked his progress. I went ...
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... didn't work, they simply begged for money- with sadder, insulted, or even angry eyes. After I passed enough of them, other children noticed and left me alone. In Estados Unidos Mexicanos, I learned to accept help from children in secret ...
... didn't work, they simply begged for money- with sadder, insulted, or even angry eyes. After I passed enough of them, other children noticed and left me alone. In Estados Unidos Mexicanos, I learned to accept help from children in secret ...
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... didn't know the rate of exchange, so I held out my American greenbacks to the driver. Both of the men came from the same mold, dark skinned, wavy greasy black hair, beer-fattened torsos in sleeveless T-shirts. The driver ignored me, and ...
... didn't know the rate of exchange, so I held out my American greenbacks to the driver. Both of the men came from the same mold, dark skinned, wavy greasy black hair, beer-fattened torsos in sleeveless T-shirts. The driver ignored me, and ...
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