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Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly those from Central America during the recent civil wars there. But there is confusion too: I know of Croatian Nazis who are subsidized by the Canadian government to maintain their racist culture. There is Canada, trying to sustain diversity without knowing exactly what it's doing.

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I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman pulls you off to the side of the road, you ha…

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I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

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Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You…

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But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

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In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at home, it becom…

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But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

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There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

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In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like th…

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So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the w…

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