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- From: rdavis@convex.com (Ray Davis)
- Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:58:31 GMT
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- silva@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Holly Silva) writes:
-
- >>Sure. Not to agree or dissagree with the foreperson's comments, I'd
- >>note that the density of immigrants to native born Americans is low
- >>enough to almost go unnoticed.
- >
- > I realize your posting address is in Richardson, Texas, but
-
- Only because all of Convex's news goes through there. I'm actually
- in Frankfurt. However, I lived in Dallas (Richardson is a suburb)
- for about 4 years.
-
- >surely even there the density of immigrants should be high enough
- >to be visible. Here in the Bay Area immigration is very visible, and
- >it's been very visible in its effects on every city I've lived in during
- >the past 12 years. If you don't see it, you're either not looking or
- >you're posting from a very remote rural community.
-
- You're right, of course, about the Bay Area. In Dallas there are
- many Mexicans (many illegals), but seriously most of the people
- don't see them, except as someone sweeping up the floor of their
- local restaurant. I never lived anywhere in the states where every
- nightclub has a) one elderly black man in the men's restroom, handing
- you a paper towel and offering smelly things, and b) a few Mexicans
- walking around with broom and scoop, keeping th floor clean.
-
- In Colorado (my home state) we have a large Spanish American and
- Indian/Spanish American population. They don't seem to be ignored
- as in the south. We always offered bilingual education and there
- were Spanish language radio and tv available.
-
- However, back to the original comment, you see a lot of immigration
- in the Bay Area, but probably 90% of the rest of the states sees
- much less.
-
- > Take a look out the window one day son, and check out those
- >deeply tanned men who are pickin' the grapefruit across the field from
- >your office. :)
-
- I wish there was grapefruit across from my office! But even if
- I could see anything other than building from my office, it'd
- probably be Turks (the Mexicans of Germany) picking apples or
- plums.
-
- Cheers,
- Ray
-