The present trend of xenophobia in the U.S. and it's primary target - Hispanics is really, basically, at it's core Just Plain-old Racism. The only thing Americans like better than cheap labor is free labor! So why is the public suddenly so allergic to Hispanics? Well it turns out that all that free and cheap labor of the 1990's didn't just become VISIBLE during the 8-5 Mon. to Fri workday and then 'disappear' after nightfall to vanish into the shadows but rather it "STAYED" , it formed families and new growing communities all over the USA. The miracle "cheap" labor BROUGHT A FOREIGN CULTURE with it and installed that culture right along side the dominant, lily white, WASP, red, white, blue and black mainstream English-only(it's No.1) culture of Americana.
It brought with it strong, brown & handsome young men who gave hundreds of white females in rural America hope of a warmer, better love life! They danced & dated & made families together. White-male America hated this so much, they then circled their wagons & conspired with politicians to round-up all those handsome brown young men, jail them & deport them.
Then the wave of cheap miracle-labor had the audacity to not only attend the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, play at the same ballparks and swim in the same pools & lakes and take in movies at the same cinemas but they also filled the nation's airwaves with Spanish language music, news, traffic reports and witty television programming.
With the money they worked so hard to earn they rescued many ailing & dieing businesses & industries coast to coast. This caused many of these businesses to do what any good business does, reach out and communicate with it's customers in the most practical, customer-friendly way. So they provided Spanish language advertising and customer service as an option right along side the traditional English versions!
This annoyed traditional Americans because they hold fast onto the delusional idea that the entire world revolves around the one language they grew up with and to be "exposed" to another language was/is a gravely offensive insult. So obviously, the currently, fashionable xenophobia frenzy is good-ole, American racism & escapism -People, like everything else in the U.S. should be "disposable" -when we git through "USING" it, throw it away and forgit about it. This was tried before with 1)Black slaves and 2) with Chinese laborers. Neither culture "disappeared" but still thrives in America today - The mainstream culture was glad to get the Hispanics labor when the economy was booming and most Hispanics were confined, out-of-sight, in migrant worker camps but finds it inconvenient, now to have to live side-by-side with them and also share a failing economy.
Just like African slaves, their labor was valued (but their humanity was not) until it was no longer "convenient" then the former 'users' vowed to "put them all on a boat with a dollar in their pocket and send them back to Africa" and today the words have been changed a little to read "put 'em all on a bus & send 'em back to Mexico"
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