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Remember that time the U.S. asked Mexico to send its hard-working men and save the U.S. agricultural economy during war time? That time from 1942 to 1964, when ...the U.S. offered Mexican men 4.6 million contracts through The Bracero Program because many American growers feared World War II would bring labor shortages to low-paying, arduous, agricultural jobs scorned by most Americans? And then they kept renewing it, and asking them to continue to come to the U.S. because U.S. growers needed the cheap labor. This is how circular migration from Mexico to the U.S. was encouraged. This is why it continues today. This is the history of the Mexican immigrants some Americans now scorn. The Bracero Oral History Project http://braceroarchive.org/ For more on the program: https://americanhistory.si.edu/america-on-//latino-stories (scroll down)

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Gringo (a): - Hi, where are you from? Mexican: - Hi, I’m from Mexico Gringo (a): - Ah! The land of Chapo Guzmán, narcos, marihuana, crime and extortion.... Mexican -I’m sorry, are you a drug addict or a TV junkie? Gringo (a) - No!!! Why? Mexican -Because if you were an athlete or sports fan, you would have identified Mexico with Ana Guevara, Hugo Sanchez, Julio Cesar Chavez, Finito, Chicharito Hernandez, Canelo Alvarez, Rafael Marquez, etc. If you were an educated person, you would have asked about the Aztec empire, the Mayan culture, the Olmecs or any other of the great mesoamerican cultures. If you were a well traveled person you would have talked about our majestic archaeological sites, our tourist-friendly colonial cities, our megalopolis or our exotic beaches the astonishing biodiversity of our rainforests, mountain ranges, deserts, conifer forests You could have identified Mexico with our great painters, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Frida Khalo, José Clemente Orozco; our composers: Agustín Lara, Consuelo Velázquez, Armando Manzanero, Juan Gabriel Jose Alfredo Jimenez, our writers and poets: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Juan José Arreola, Elena Poniatowska, Amado Nervo, Jaime Sabines; our inventors or scientists: Manuel Mondragón, Guillermo González Camarera, Luis Ernesto Miramontes; our cinematographers: Ismael Rodríguez, Emilio Fernández, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Emmanuel Lubezki, and even Luis Buñuel, who, being originally from Spain, chose to adopt the Mexican nationality... If you were a gourmand, you would have asked about Tamales, Cochinita Pibil, Mole, Adobo, Chilaquiles, Chiles en nogada, Guacamole, Pan de Muerto, etc. Or our traditional beverages: Tequila, Mezcal, wines and beers. However, I can see, the only thing you can relate to Mexico is the provider to American drug addicts... I just want you to realize that México is a lot more than what ignorant people and fear-mongering media knows or chooses to propagate. There are millions of honest Mexicans, who even without knowing you, will open the door to our homes, and that if you care to visit, you will love to get to know

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