If you REALLY care about tu gente, read this:
Mexicans Are Lazy? This what an Arab friend is questioning me with.
He started off with stating that we often perpetuate a myth that I have come to find enabling of a serious problem.
That is, the myth that all Hispanics are somehow “hard-working” because they’ll do manual labor. Or, as I’ve heard many claim in defense of illegal immigration, “They’ll do anything to earn a living.” That’s a lie. There’s one thing the majority of Mexican and Central American immigrants won’t do to make a living: think.
He says he teach in Los Angeles. The majority of students in his district are Hispanic—Mexican and Central American. The majority are failing—they’re relatively illiterate. They fail because they are lazy. They will not do the work. They will gladly tell you that. What I have come to find, sadly, is that the majority of Hispanics from Mexico and Central America would rather do manual labor than use their brains.
This is why Hispanics in the Southwest constitute a growing and perpetual servant class: because they have a visceral hatred of education.
It’s part of a white liberal myth that manual labor makes for “hard work” when it comes to illegal immigrants and their children. Manual labor makes for sweat, nothing more.
Intellectual effort is far more difficult, makes for success and competitiveness, and why the majority of the Hispanic students I work with are headed for little better than their illegal immigrant parents: manual labor. The reason: not oppression, and not racism, but because, as so many of them proudly exclaim, they’re lazy.
Anyways, I would just like to hear Any Forums's THOUGHTS on this. Gracias. I'm Mexican, and I'm debating with him about this.