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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... learned that some Latin Americans consider people from Argentina as 'presumidos', which combines qualities like fatuous, presumptuous, pompous, vain, contemptuous of others, a too high self esteem, etc. and all this from a society that ...
... learned that some Latin Americans consider people from Argentina as 'presumidos', which combines qualities like fatuous, presumptuous, pompous, vain, contemptuous of others, a too high self esteem, etc. and all this from a society that ...
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... learned to play rock guitar in a couple of bands, and frequented the library to research the best time to become a parent. Twenty two year olds procreated with the most success, the current literature said. I spread my conceptual wings ...
... learned to play rock guitar in a couple of bands, and frequented the library to research the best time to become a parent. Twenty two year olds procreated with the most success, the current literature said. I spread my conceptual wings ...
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... learned they do that to ward off the Evil Eye, from me. That pissed me off, and sometimes I threw them the Evil Eye on purpose. My vicarious osmotic lessons from Bela Lugosi and other Hollywood vampires taught me how to scatter a gaggle ...
... learned they do that to ward off the Evil Eye, from me. That pissed me off, and sometimes I threw them the Evil Eye on purpose. My vicarious osmotic lessons from Bela Lugosi and other Hollywood vampires taught me how to scatter a gaggle ...
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... learned to accept help from children in secret, to avoid the concentric circles of frenzy that occurred once when I paid a child in public for a little help to get my backpack on the right bus. The child tugged my backpack to the bus ...
... learned to accept help from children in secret, to avoid the concentric circles of frenzy that occurred once when I paid a child in public for a little help to get my backpack on the right bus. The child tugged my backpack to the bus ...
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... learned to accept any rate of exchange near twelve and a half pesos to one dollar, a difficult computational task, even after I memorized a number of equivalencies for twelve and a half Mexican pesos to a dollar. I repeated what he said ...
... learned to accept any rate of exchange near twelve and a half pesos to one dollar, a difficult computational task, even after I memorized a number of equivalencies for twelve and a half Mexican pesos to a dollar. I repeated what he said ...
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