tion of campesinos or farmers who diligently worked their fields and mainly grew and prepared their own food. As a result, they yet retain much of a centuries-old feel and understanding of the practice of growing food as well as for many ingenious ways of doing things, from properly hanging a door to making a satisfying meal at the end of the month when the cupboards are mostly bare.
Studies have also shown that Latinos in the United States, of
which the Mexicano people comprise the lion’ s share, are the most prone to found new businesses of any ethnic group, and that if their combined wealth were to be counted, it would rival the fifth largest economy of the world. Needless to say, Mexicanos are a friendly, courteous, and energetic people in an aging country that by all indications is running out of steam and which desperately needs them for the renewal of their own society.
The second source of their unique sensibilities is that the Mexicano people are predominantly indigenous to the Americas with 90 percent of Mexicanos carrying the genetic traits of their AmerIndian ancestors. And herein lies the paradox of their presence in North American society, a society comprised primarily of the descendants of European immigrants who deem Mexicanos to be foreigners when emphatically they are not. Rather, it is the other way around.
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