Who said the phrase "poor mexico, so far away from god, so close to the United States"?
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Poor Mexico - so close to the United States, so far from God,’ runs a popular Mexican saying. This leads me to believe it is a 'public domain' quote, the origin unknown, or unremembered
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Rockinjellyfish:\n\n"Pour le service en anglais choisissez le numéro un maintenant."\n\nFor service in English choose the number and wait a moment.\n\nEduarodi:\n\nDude you need a chill pill. I mean seriously. Who do you think you are? You don't even live here so you need to just shut up and crawl into your little whole in Argentina. \n\nMy friends father is from Argentina by the way and he hates it that people like you complain. He told Ary and me that. He's an executive in a business that builds builiding. In other words he's and architect. So don't give me that bullsh*t. :)\n\nIt is not fair for us Americans to have to bend over backwards just to help the non-English speaking people. Sorry! Don't think so. This is the United States of America. We speak English only. If you don't like it, go elsewhere. \n\nI would not expect for the people in Mexico to have to learn English just for me. I would take the time and effort to learn the language. Others should be just as courteous if not more. We are letting them live here. We could easily deport all of them back to where they came from. \n\nI the walking into a store or calling someplace and it saying, "For English press one. Para español permanece en la línea." Or something like that. I think that that is wrong. If they are going to live here then they need to learn the language. I don't feel sorry for them and I think you need to get over it.
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this is what he meant\n   "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." \nhttp://www.filmstripinternational.com/
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Benjamin Franklin:\n\n"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\nIt's one of my all-time favorite quotes!\n\n.
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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Idaho, i think. his cousins are from Mexico though.
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ok....so what?  He says regligion tore apart his country ..then he quotes a bible verse?
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I beleive the quote was:\n"Without the a little rain, there would be no rainbow."\n\nby Jerry Chin
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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"\n\n-Ralph Wiggum
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Not Bush's god\n\nP.S. Nice a.ss
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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"\n\n-Nathan Hale\n\n"America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself." \n\n- Georg W. Hegel\n\n"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country." \n\n-Sinclair Lewis\n\nAnd, as much as it pains me\n\n"America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens." \n\n-George W. Bush
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God doesn't like Americans much.
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Nothing New About It\n\nhttp://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/aztlan.html\n\nIn 1997, then-President Zedillo proclaimed that \n“I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation \nextends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the ''conquista,'' \nSpain tried to impose on Mexico \na common western language, religion, and culture, \nand to the degree it was successful.  \nIt was also anti-American.  \nWe should remember \nthat the Spaniards were building the great cathedral \nat the Zocolo in Mexico City \na hundred years before George Washington \ntook control of the Continental Army \nat Cambridge, Massachusetts.  \nHere are two different world views, sharing the same continent.\n\nIn his article, Clash of Civilizations?, \nSamuel P. Huntington reminds us \nthat cultural differences may cause future wars, \nand that these wars will be along cultural ''fault lines.''  \n\nThe U. S.--Mexican border is one of those fault lines.  \n\nHuntington writes, \n''Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future,\nand the world will be shaped in large measure \nby the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations \n\nThe most important conflicts of the future \nwill occur along the cultural fault lines \nseparating these civilizations from one another.'' \n\nIn regard to Mexico, Huntington writes, \n''During the past decade, \nMexico has assumed a position \nsomewhat similar to that of Turkey. \nJust as Turkey abandoned its historic opposition to Europe \nand attempted to join Europe, \nMexico has stopped defining itself \nby its opposition to the United States \nand is instead attempting to imitate the United States.''  \nHowever, \nunlike Canada, \nMexico has a large, nonwestern, indigenous population \nthat has not yet been integrated into modernity.  \nThis native population also carries \nan unconscious weight of resentment \ntowards the Spanish conquest, \nwhich it now mistakenly displaces onto the U. S. \n\nMexico's indigenous population \nis one of the contemporary strains in that society.  \nSub-Comandante Marcos \nand the uprising in Chiapas of indigenous people \nis a prediction of what is to come in Mexico \nif that strain cannot be relieved.\n  \nThe Mexican elites have decided, therefore, \nto reduce this strain by sending north \nas many poor and jobless Mexicans as they can.  \nInstead of solving their own problems, \nwhich might entail a reduction of their status, \nthe ruling Mexican elites have decided to keep the fiesta going\nand let the U. S. handle the cleanup. \n\nA top adviser \nto past Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari \ndescribed to Huntington all the changes \nthe Salinas government was making.  \nWhen the advisor finished, Huntington remarked: \n''That's most impressive.  \nIt seems to me that basically you want to change Mexico \nfrom a Latin American country into a North American country.''\nHe looked at me with surprise and exclaimed: \n''Exactly!  \nThat's precisely what we are trying to do, \nbut of course we could never say so publicly.'' \n \nWhat also could not be said publicly \nis that Mexico wants to reclaim its ''lost'' territory.  \nIt will use economics and illegal immigrants to do this.\n\nMany Mexican elites believe that to become a modern nation,\nMexico has to restructure its economy \nand regain the territory it lost during the first Mexican war.  \nFor over a century, \nMexican nationalists have used the myths and symbols \nof a lost but glorious indigenous past \nto motivate its plans for expansion. \n \nD. H. Lawrence wrote about this myth building in his novel, \nThe Plumed Serpent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf the ''reconquista'' continues unchecked \nfor the next twenty years, \nthe U. S. will be a fundamentally different society than it is today.\n\nThere will be more poverty and low-wage jo
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Who stated that white people were afraid of Mexicans?  That's an awfully big leap of thought you have. ;p
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yeah, but "near" means a couple of hundred years probablly. I do believe in Jesus and that things have gotten so out of control that we-human beings-have messed it up enough that he'll have to come down soon, shit I don't know
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12 miles from any land area , that's\n considered the USA.
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I can't speak for people who are deluded by the desire to be closer to something they know nothing about.  I have observed though, that huge gas-guzzling SUVs, Jesus stickers, Bush stickers and 'support the troops' stickers, seem to go hand in hand with each other.\n\nI live in the Pacific Northwest, a land that was once a beautiful paradise to some great people.  Some people use to call it "Gods Country".  Well, it's been 150 years since people with the desire to be closer to god showed up.  That Paradise has been shaved to stumps, the fish are disappearing, our lands are filled with some of the worst nuclear waste problems the world knows, we're storing chemical weapons at a depot the size of a small U.S. state, the language and culture of those who were here before has been marginalized and nearly irradicated by the brute force of those seeking a closer relationship with god (and seeking to make sure everyone around them found the same relationship).\n\nAnyway, I'd prefer if all the religious zealots left the northwest forever.