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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Mexican Americans had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (31.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Business A special effort has been made to promote business cooperation among Mexicans and Mexican-Americans with the participation of the Council for the Promotion of Business with Mexicans and Latino Communities.
We would like to express now our solidarity with Mexicans and Central Americans who are protesting against the Plan Puebla-Panama.
Mexicans alone constitute a substantial national group with an independent identity, but Mexican-Americans are unlikely to want independence any more than Puerto Ricans do.
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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Cinco de Mayo is a holiday celebrated on May 5 by Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
Many Mexicans would join the revolt against the Americans who had captured Santa Fe de San Francisco (now just called Santa Fe, New Mexico) on August 18, 1846.
For Mexicans who are proud of being Mexican, a Chicano is someone distant from his roots whose culture is American and who might as well be another type of gringo - an unsavory one at that.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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American Mexicans considered themselves bound to the old constitution and were not about to sit still and be quiet while a military dictator appropriated the reins of government.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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Just as modern Americans often connect beards and long hair with hippies or bums, Anglos of that time connected marijuana with Mexicans, laziness, and crime.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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In American history classes, we learn of the hardship and struggles of slaves, the brutal colonization of Native Americans, the settlement of Mexicans in the Southwest and even the waves of ethnic European immigration, such as Italians and Irish.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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American truckers are worried about losing their jobs to Mexicans under Washington's new motor freight policy while companies in Mexico are just as concerned about where they'll find the money to upgrade aging fleets to pass tougher US border inspections.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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More Mexicans and Central Americans than ever are coming to the US as worsening economic conditions and lack of opportunity force them to choose between living in their homelands in poverty or supporting their families.
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