Mexicans Illegals: Their Day is Coming
August 12, 2010
by Fred Reed(Originally titled: "Scoping Out Pepe
Why We Should Get It Right, But Won't"
March 26, 2008
(Editor's Note: This article contains views some people will find offensive. I don't know if they are true but I think they deserve to be heard. We have to consider the possibility that we have been given views of "tolerance" that were intended to be self-defeating, and might not apply to us in the future. Slightly abridged by Henry Makow)
Those who favor immigration tend to hold an idealized view of the newcomers. They are so-o-o-o hardworking! Yes, in the first generation. They just want a better life! So they do. They are just like Italian and Polish immigrants of the last century. No, they are not. They are Mexicans.
Mexico is a third-world country--yes, an upper third-world Latin American country, functioning reasonably well, and not Haiti or Bangladesh. It's a nice place to live, which is why a half million North Americans are here. Yet Mexico is very, very different from America. If America and England are a few inches apart, Americans and France a few more, Mexico is several feet off in the distance.
While gringos and Mexicans live next to each other here in amity, they do not mix. They can't. A retired executive from Boeing has nothing in common with a man with a fourth-grade education who will never read a book in his life. Pepe is smiling and amiable while working in the garden. He is also a grown man, not a teddy bear. If the retired engineer met Pepe in Pepe's favorite bar, the engineer might come to a very different understanding of Pepe.
It is one thing to have Mexicans in America while they still fearful of being deported. They are polite and brown and eager to work. This encourages the tendency to which Americans are prone, to patronize them as just the nicest babysitters and garbage men. Why, they are almost like real people.
It will be a different thing when they are legal and have a voting majority in the Southwest. They understand perfectly that their day is coming. A couple of years back I listened on the radio to a Mexican-American politician from Texas. He pointed out that when the Mexican children now in school reach the age of eighteen, they will control the government of the state.
He was not hostile, did not say as Barack Obama's minister did, "God damn America." Yet he saw what was coming, and was well pleased. From the Mexican point of view, they are getting back states which rightly belong to them.
They assuredly are. Shortly the US will have a southern tier of states under Mexican-American control.
The hopeful idea is that they will meld as did the Irish and Italians and Vietnamese. The flaw in this happy ointment is that they do very poorly in school--better than blacks, but well below whites and Asians. This is not a problem of the first generation only, in which case it might eventually cure itself, but of later generations also. It looks innate, or at least as if it will continue. Then what?
Then they will have no choice but to be waiters and garbage collectors. The first generation will tolerate it, happy to be making what seems to them good money. A few will succeed and move up. Most won't. The second generation, relegated forever to jobs of low pay and less esteem, will become resentful. Inevitably they will see the relegation as indicating discrimination, not incapacity. The young, unable to compete, will gravitate toward others who can't and we will have another permanent underclass. If you don't believe me, watch.
The United States advertises itself as a land of opportunity, and in fact is, but only for the bright. A poor kid who pops 1500 on his SATs can get into a good university and come out as anything he chooses. Universities look for such students. A kid who barely reads has no chance. For him, there are no opportunities.
Why is it unlikely that the immigrants will improve scholastically? For reasons a fair few understand but nobody talks about. Intelligence. Mexico consists of three layers, or maybe two layers with a spectrum between. The governing class is white, and at about the European level on IQ tests, not surprising because they are European. You have the mestizos, who do conspicuously less well, and the pure Indians, lower yet. The white upper class is not swimming the river.
IQ is a forbidden topic, but it tracks reality depressingly well. No country below Laredo has ever produced anything important in the sciences. And while in any group there are exceptions, it is the majority who determine social results. This bears thinking about. Reality does not respect politics. Holding one's breath and turning blue will change nothing. Insisting that something can't be so or shouldn't be so doesn't change whether it is so.
Inequality can be seen in the streets here. In Guadalajara, una ciudad muy guera, a very white city, you have highly sophisticated people who talk of the arts on the radio as intelligently as any in America. They go to the opera, buy in good bookstores, and serve competently as doctors and technicians. In the villages you find people with far more Indian blood and almost no academic achievement or interest. Out in the hills there is, dead serious, a lot of witchcraft.
It's a different world. And coming to a mall near you.
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Fred Reed Lives in Mexico and is married to a Mexican woman.
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Thanks to Tony Blizzard
Patty said (August 13, 2010):
This is about the Mexicans-the article written by a fellow who lives there. He mentions that they are not as advanced academically,etc. Here’s an interesting thought about that. 30 years ago I was studying astrology and read a book by the famous astrologer Joseph Goodavage(sp?) While detailing how astronomical discoveries paralleled astrological ones, he mentioned that NO CIVILIZATION DEVELOPING SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR HAD EVER DEVELOPED A WRITTEN LANGUAGE OR A SYSTEM OF ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS! I also recalled reading ROOTS and how Alex Haley told that when he went to Africa to find his relatives, he had to listen to a tribe historian recite the entire history of his ancestors’ tribes orally! There WAS NO library or other reference available! A friend of mine from Johannesburg told me that Swaheli-a Bantu tongue-was about half Arabic!(Which made me wonder who taught what to whom!) So the Mexican article was factual, however the underlying cause is a bit blurry. Are they slow because of their proximity to the equator? And did THIS cause a genetic disturbance,etc.? Or does the heat squelch all desire to dig deeper intellectually? If that were the case, then moving to the US should have changed things! Years ago when I was living in St. Louis, I had a good friend-a neighbor-who was from Mexico. He worked as a pipefitter as that paid well, however, he took classes and read many books on Archeology and history of the Aztecs, Toltecs, Mayans,etc. And was very well informed. He was also a Jehovah’s Witness and knew the Bible far better than I who had studied it as ancient literature in college. His brothers were quite a bit like him and his entire family seemed quite intelligent. Did this go unnoticed because most white neighbors did not open up a dialogue with them? Or was it something else? If so, we need to find out what that something else is-and fast!