Jessica Alba talks about the U.S. for Cinco De Mayo

A very interesting book from www.VDare.com about Jessica Alba's opinion of American culture. This follows this post about about Miss Kentucky Latina under indictment and this post about the Tea Party being disparaged in the Fox TV show "The Cult."   In the meantime, you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Jessica Alba Has Been Carefully Taught

[Linda Thom]

Jessica Alba clearly learned in California schools that being Native-American is the right thing to be and being European the wrong thing. (See The Fair Jessica Calls Arizona Racist below.) That is what one learns in California schools. That is what my California-educated children were taught but they are smart and Jessica is stupid.

My adult children do not care that they are part Native-American and part European. Personally, I never cared a bit but my Texas aunts and uncles cared. They were not happy about it. South of the border, they care too.

In Mexico and Guatemala, locals deny their indigenous roots because Mixtecs, Queche-speaking Mayans and others are considered to be the lowest of the low. For example, I have been told in Guatemala that they are heathens and burn chickens. I first heard these comments from a man whose face could have been the model for stelas at Tikal among the Mayan ruins.

Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Mexico, make up a large segment of the illegal farm worker population in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Most are illiterate in their own language which might be Trique, Amuzgo, Mixe, and P’urepecha. Most cannot even speak Spanish.

One of my long-time friends is a Mexican-American and a retired Sheriff’s Commander for Santa Barbara County. He told me that he was in the Santa Maria jail in northern Santa Barbara County and he spoke with an illegal alien who was accused (and later convicted of) murdering a Mixtec. My friend told me that the Mexican prisoner could not understand why he was in jail for murdering a Mixtec as “as they are just animals.”

Jessica should be proud of her heritage but she needs to travel to Mexico and Guatemala to find out what the locals thinks of Indigenas.

MAY DAY Reading!

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

A very interesting book to read about Latin American socialism. You can get this at your library here or from a bookstore such as Amazon at the links below. This follows this post about a book to read about the LEFT-wing tendencies of Adolf Hitler! In the meantime, you can read two very interesting books HERE.


Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "underdeveloped" status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America. It reveals the connection between economic success and cultural values—attitudes toward work, education, health care and community—and the consequence of the Latin American people retaining or evolving these values.

Great book, the Perfect L. Idiot is finally exposed!
By Karen Helweg-Larsen

Format:Hardcover

I was very surprised to finally read a book that doesn't portray Latin America as a "victim" of the US or the Old World. I think these three authors intelligently challenge the populist ideologies and myths of the left and the right that have made so much damage all over the spanish speaking countries south of the USA. Having met many "perfect latin american idiots" in the past, I can see now why they are so enraged with the succes of this book. They are perfectly described and they don't look pretty. For anyone else, this book offers a fresh, sharp insight in to Latin American issues that until recently were considered property of marxist and nationalist leaning intellectuals. These writers are shooting straight to the heart and they make no apologies.

 Reflections about Latin America By A Customer

This is an excellent book that examines the causes of Latin America's political and economical troubles from a libertarian point of view, debunking the old prejudices spread by the leftists - the idiots! - about that part of the world, which are still dominant in the mainstream media. Usually, Latin America is presented as a land where free enterprise and private property clearly failed the challenge of development, state interventionism (or socialism...) being depicted as the unique possible choice to solve and fight the continent's poverty. The authors sucessfully demonstrate the complete wrongness of this perspective: Latin America's problem is not a lack of state interventionism, but an excess of it, the historical existence of a centralist tradition suspicious about real liberalism (in the european tradition of the word) and freedom of enterprise, giving her preference to the creation of heavy bureaucratic systems and gigantic conglomerates of ineffective public companies, usually managed without any kind of economic rationality, only obeying to unclear and not well defined political criterions, Cuba being the main paradigm of the bad consequences of this model (the chapter about Fidel's island is simply superb). As I said initially, this is a fine book and the only reason I don't rate it with five stars is the following one: even the authors, in minor points, are not completely free of leftist idiocy, especially when they speak about extra Latin America realities...

 Subverting the dominant thought paradigm! By Brian M. Straight

I don't think anyone contends the US is innocent of many evils in Latin America. Everyone knows that we have done some bad stuff there. However, using that as the sole explanation for why the region continues underdeveloped is out of touch with reality. I get that sort of thing from professors in my Latin American studies grad program all the time and it rings hollow when one knows some of the counterfactual evidence in existense. This book does a good job of bringing that out. The only problem is that there are some factual accuracies. Example-- the authors ID 1977 as the year Archbishop Romero was killed in El Salvador. This is false. It was 1981, and they probably meant to refer to the 1976 assassination of Romero's friend Rutilio Grande. Little veting errors like this one are not too big a deal, though. The overall point that the US is not the only one to blame for Latin America's problems rings loud and clear. Ths authors do a sound job of making their case based on myriad historical examples which are well-documented and often selectively ignored by many aficionados of Latin American history who prefer to see the region as victims of Yankee aggression.

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

A very interesting book to read about Latin American socialism. You can get this at your library here or from a bookstore such as Amazon at the links below.This follows this post about a confession by P.Diddy, an ex-boyfriend of Jennifer Lopez.  This follows this post about a race hoax at U.T. Austin.  This follows this post about Emmit Till. In the meantime, you can read two very interesting books HERE.


Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "underdeveloped" status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America. It reveals the connection between economic success and cultural values—attitudes toward work, education, health care and community—and the consequence of the Latin American people retaining or evolving these values.

Great book, the Perfect L. Idiot is finally exposed!
By Karen Helweg-Larsen

Format:Hardcover

I was very surprised to finally read a book that doesn't portray Latin America as a "victim" of the US or the Old World. I think these three authors intelligently challenge the populist ideologies and myths of the left and the right that have made so much damage all over the spanish speaking countries south of the USA. Having met many "perfect latin american idiots" in the past, I can see now why they are so enraged with the succes of this book. They are perfectly described and they don't look pretty. For anyone else, this book offers a fresh, sharp insight in to Latin American issues that until recently were considered property of marxist and nationalist leaning intellectuals. These writers are shooting straight to the heart and they make no apologies.

 Reflections about Latin America By A Customer

This is an excellent book that examines the causes of Latin America's political and economical troubles from a libertarian point of view, debunking the old prejudices spread by the leftists - the idiots! - about that part of the world, which are still dominant in the mainstream media. Usually, Latin America is presented as a land where free enterprise and private property clearly failed the challenge of development, state interventionism (or socialism...) being depicted as the unique possible choice to solve and fight the continent's poverty. The authors sucessfully demonstrate the complete wrongness of this perspective: Latin America's problem is not a lack of state interventionism, but an excess of it, the historical existence of a centralist tradition suspicious about real liberalism (in the european tradition of the word) and freedom of enterprise, giving her preference to the creation of heavy bureaucratic systems and gigantic conglomerates of ineffective public companies, usually managed without any kind of economic rationality, only obeying to unclear and not well defined political criterions, Cuba being the main paradigm of the bad consequences of this model (the chapter about Fidel's island is simply superb). As I said initially, this is a fine book and the only reason I don't rate it with five stars is the following one: even the authors, in minor points, are not completely free of leftist idiocy, especially when they speak about extra Latin America realities...

 Subverting the dominant thought paradigm! By Brian M. Straight

I don't think anyone contends the US is innocent of many evils in Latin America. Everyone knows that we have done some bad stuff there. However, using that as the sole explanation for why the region continues underdeveloped is out of touch with reality. I get that sort of thing from professors in my Latin American studies grad program all the time and it rings hollow when one knows some of the counterfactual evidence in existense. This book does a good job of bringing that out. The only problem is that there are some factual accuracies. Example-- the authors ID 1977 as the year Archbishop Romero was killed in El Salvador. This is false. It was 1981, and they probably meant to refer to the 1976 assassination of Romero's friend Rutilio Grande. Little veting errors like this one are not too big a deal, though. The overall point that the US is not the only one to blame for Latin America's problems rings loud and clear. Ths authors do a sound job of making their case based on myriad historical examples which are well-documented and often selectively ignored by many aficionados of Latin American history who prefer to see the region as victims of Yankee aggression.