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Litter choking streets throughout Mexico
Houston Chronicle Mexico City Bureau ^ | June 24, 2007 | DUDLEY ALTHAUS

Posted on 06/25/2007 8:27:31 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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To: monday
I think you are correct. I’m more familiar with Honduras and Guatemala in both countries you see piles of trash along the roadside that are slowly burning. Also see piles of trash outside windows (open no glass) of shacks on mountainsides particularly in Honduras. I honestly think that it used to be minimally ok to toss the banana peel, pineapple top etc because they would rot quickly but plastic and cans just pile up. The culture has not caught with modern food packaging.
41 posted on 06/25/2007 9:32:17 AM PDT by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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To: SwinneySwitch
In the United States, you have an authority that is watching. Here in Mexico, there is nothing like that.

YES, it is called self-discipline and self-respect. Any of us could easily live like pigs and not be caught. But we choose not to. This guy thinks we don't litter for fear of being caught. He needs to visit us for a while. (Uh, stay out of some areas where people have no self-discipline and self-respect.)

42 posted on 06/25/2007 9:33:03 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Mexicans have become world-class litterbugs

Conquering the world via mucho anchor baby's?

43 posted on 06/25/2007 9:35:18 AM PDT by tophat9000 (My 2008 grassroots Republican platform: Build the fence, enforce the laws, and win the damm WAR!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

I have and idea. Instead of taking our garbage to a landfill, we should just ship it to the areas of the US where the Mescans have taken over. Slip in at night, dump it in the streets, and slip on out.

Next morning, they won’t notice the difference.


44 posted on 06/25/2007 9:38:03 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: 3AngelaD
It was like the scene from one of those horror movies set in the future, garbage as far as you could see in any direction. I asked the porter if it was a huge dump and he said no, it was just property the railroad owned.

I recall noticing huge amounts of trash dumped on railroad property the last time I rode the train into New York City. This was 15-20 years ago. It wasn't as bad as your description of Mexico though.

45 posted on 06/25/2007 9:39:09 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: monday; nomorelurker
Before the era of prepackaged food, no place was like that. As recently as 20 years ago, Mexico had no littering problem because most people still ate fresh foods purchased at farmers markets rather than packaged food from supermarkets.
Excellent post, monday. You have just explained so much of what is going on today. The world is in a flux as great as any since the opening of cross-Atlantic/Pacific trade routes by the Spanish and Portuguese. There's a tremendous clash of new technology with old perceptions, and it will be a long, long while for it to sort out.

To make it through this transition successfully, the U.S. must keep constant pressure on the rest of the world. If we don't lead, those who would interpret new things through old ways will.

46 posted on 06/25/2007 9:41:39 AM PDT by nicollo (all economic are politics)
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To: AZHSer
It’s not just a Mexican culture thing.

It's third world thing.

47 posted on 06/25/2007 9:44:07 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (A man who will not defend himself does not deserve to be defended by others.)
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To: Mark was here
According to the article, 25 percent of Texans litter.

Um ... That was 77 percent of Texans under 25. (and 55 percent of all Texans)

48 posted on 06/25/2007 9:44:18 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: RC2
Mexico has always been like that. Not new news.

Not exactly.....

"Always" is a word that should rarely be used....

FWIW-

49 posted on 06/25/2007 9:45:08 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Getting honest answers from Congress...is like putting socks on roosters.)
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To: Red Badger
Here and there!.......

You got that right.

While I was reading this, I had a Hispanic walk in my office wanting to rent an apartment. He asked me what the requirements were to rent. I told him one of the requirements was that everyone had to be legal. He admitted with no shame or fear that he and his wife were not legal. (Why is my stomach in knots all of a sudden?)

50 posted on 06/25/2007 9:49:20 AM PDT by muggs
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Where is the crying indian chief when we need him!
51 posted on 06/25/2007 9:52:34 AM PDT by Holicheese (Zap Razdowler Rules!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

One of the former Little League ballparks in Vista, CA, started out pretty decent, including adequate public bathrooms. The officials of the league were continually trying to educate the Latinos to put the used toilet paper INTO the toilet and flush it down. Usually, the Mexicans would just discard it on the floor. We were told by several Mexicans that because of bad plumbing where they came from, it was normal practice there NOT to flush the paper. Yeccchhhh. Needless to say, it was hard to get the LL board members to volunteer for bathroom cleaning duty.


52 posted on 06/25/2007 9:58:05 AM PDT by RightField
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To: SwinneySwitch

“Litter choking streets throughout Mexico”

I have the Neil Diamond song “Coming to America” playing in my head.


53 posted on 06/25/2007 9:59:49 AM PDT by Grunthor (Once a cobra bit Fred Thompsons' leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.)
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To: muggs

Memorial Day, my wife & I were sitting on our front porch, early in the morning, when a Hispanic man rode up ito our driveway on his bicycle. In broken English he said he was “new” here and would like to know if we needed any yardwork or housework done. We said no, we do all our own work and he left. That has never happened to us before. I assumed he was from the house 3 down from us that is now a rental and has a whole new bunch of Latino people staying there.............


54 posted on 06/25/2007 9:59:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Have found dirty diapers on food shelves and parking lots at South Texas stores!

We've seen these people throw their entire lunch remains right out their windows.

It's disgusting how they are just trashing America.

This isn't ignorance, this is totally intentional, in your face trashing of America!

55 posted on 06/25/2007 10:01:06 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: silver charm

“And Bush wants us to turn our country over to these people.”

Jorge deserves a huge kick in the ass for this and for even considering closing down Gitmo, caving in (AGAIN) to the f**king anti-American leftists. The man needs to grow a pair.


56 posted on 06/25/2007 10:02:39 AM PDT by Levante
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To: Aquinasfan

More than a smattering of Mexican towns are garbage dumps!


57 posted on 06/25/2007 10:08:46 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: Levante

amen to that!!!


58 posted on 06/25/2007 10:09:27 AM PDT by silver charm (Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: AnnaZ

Ok. I’ve seen that at WalMart too! Damn chinese! Er uh. Mexicans!


59 posted on 06/25/2007 10:09:58 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine; HangFire
Another totally nasty habit of theirs is throwing their used toilet paper on the floor of bathroom stalls instead of flushing it. I guess this is a hangover from their lack of proper plumbing, and in L.A., in lots of restrooms, there would be signs instructing people to please flush it down.

This is HangFire's favorite cultural affectation. Not.

Blech!

60 posted on 06/25/2007 10:19:52 AM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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