Mexico & the United StatesMexico & the United States
Sept. 17, 1979
Contents | Twin Nations | Labyrinth of Solitude | Moral sickness metaphor | coexistence & Norté Americano failings
"We are two distinct versions of Western
Civilization"
(135)
"The dicovery & conquest of America are events that inaugurated modern world history,"
(361)
Mexico Population: 2007
108,700,891 (July 2007 est.)
11th census was 1990
12th?
Indian population:
Mexico 23,500,000
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/indpop.html
Mexico City Population: 8,605,239.
Greater Mexico City area, population 17,809,471 according to 2000 census.
(roughly 29% of Mexico's population, and 49% of Latin America's total Amerind population)
see: http://www.indigenouspeople.net/CENSUSSTORY.htm
Past evidence:
The Mexican census of October 28, 1900, shows that the population of the republic is 13,570,545 or 7.6 per cent larger than in 1895.
"Mexico is the most Spanish country in Latin America; at the same time
it is most Indian. . . . . In the United States, the Indian element does not
appear. (362)
"The Indian presence means that one of the facets of Mexican culture is
not Western. (363)
"The sickness of the West is moral rather than social and economic . .
. But the real, most profound discord lies in the soul. (374)
"The hedonism of the West is the other face of desperation; its skepticism
is not wisdom but renunciation; its nihilism ends in suicide and in inferior
forms of credulity, such as political fanaticism."
"Our only recourse is the exercise of opposing virtues: tolerance and freedom
of spirit." (375)
"the minorities inside as well as the marginal countries & nations
outside -- do exist. . . . we 'others' make up a majority of the human race,
. . . . If the United States is to recover itself it must recover the 'others'
-- the outcasts of the Western World." (376)
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