I was curious because there seems to be a level of racism towards Mexicans thats to be acceptable in the US. It's a form of racism that seems to not be acknowledged as racist...kind of like the racism some Canadians exhibit towards First Nations. its tolerated..even printed in the news...spoken out loud..and never really acknowledged for the racism it is.
That's probably a good analogy. My take is that Mexicans in the US are generally seen as taking things away from society, probably in much the same way as FN are seen, again generally, to be taking from Canadian society....neither actually seen as
a part of those respective societies.
Where it gets muddled, where I believe you see it being tolerated, is that a lot of times there is
some grains truth behind it all. Now I don't mean that in the sense that the racism is justified or anything like that, but when you do look at things like the massive numbers of people crossing that border from Mexico (for example), it's difficult to not acknowledge that that is a strain on resources. Because it is. Anytime you have a huge number of people suddenly moving en mass into an area, it would strain resources of all kinds. So you have some relatively reasonable concerns, and it gets all mixed up with resentment, and then stereotyping, next thing you have a system of tolerated racism.
