A critique regarding article by LauMand in 2007
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12/16/2013
The comments made by this writer are laughable, and are only exceeded by ignorance. But she can't help it because she was brainwashed by her ancestors.
At some point, in San Antonio, and more than likely in the rest of the state as well, a faction of people, who considered themselves the earlier settlers in Texas, somehow, and maybe even perhaps by chance, banded together and called themselves "anglos" in order to differentiate from more recent immigrants who had fled the Mexican revolution and settled in the state as well. This faction included; Germans, Englishmen, Irish, Czechs, Poles, Greeks, Italians, Syrians, Lebanese, Jews, etc., half of which, even by a stretch of the imagination, could not be considered Anglicans. More than likely because of the Great Depression, they did this in order to apply economic and political sanctions against the Hispanic "newcomers" whom they considered a threat to bite into their portion of the precarious "American Pie." These early sanctions against access to jobs and politics are well-documented, and there is no need to revisit them at this time. The unconstitutional ploy lasted for perhaps a couple of decades, during which many so-called "anglos", acquired a false sense of superiority over their "more recent" fellow immigrants. The latter, to their credit, never resorted to rioting in the streets, burning automobiles, looting stores, nor killing innocent people. They had an innate feeling that society would evolve naturally as it has since the dawn of time.
So now, despite the historical claims of ethnocentricity, by many, we see, over the internet, and through many other sources, that all ethnic groups have the same successes, failures, intelligence, ignorance, and levels of religion and morality, as any other.
George | San Antonio, TX