Mexicans: Mexican-Americans Owe Loyalty

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Mexicans: Mexican-Americans Owe Loyalty
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Sat, 10-17-2009 - 11:27pm

Poll: Mexicans say Mexican-Americans Owe Loyalty to Mexico Over U.S.

Nearly 70 percent of Mexicans surveyed said that Mexican-Americans – including those born in the United States – owe their primary loyalty to Mexico, not the U.S., according to a Zogby poll commissioned by the Center for Immigration Studies.

The in-person poll, taken during August and September, sampled 1,004 Mexicans across the country on subjects related to illegal immigration and amnesty in the United States.

When asked “Should the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans be to Mexico or to the U.S.?” 68.8 percent of respondents in Mexico said that it should be to Mexico, while only 19.7 percent said it should be to the United States. Another 11.5 percent of respondents said they were not sure.

Steven Camarota, director of research at the CIS, told CNSNews.com that the Spanish phrase translated as “Mexican-Americans” (“los estadounidenses de origen mexicano”) was carefully selected to ensure that respondents knew that it included those born in the U.S. He particularly stressed the Spanish word ‘estadounidenses.’

“It means ‘United States-ian’ — (that’s) how it translates,” he said, “and it’s understood by everyone in Mexico to include, clearly, people born in the United States of Mexican ancestry.”

Camarota also told CNSNews.com that just over one-third of respondents (36 percent) said that they would come to the U.S., if they could. Of that group, 68 percent said they think that Mexican-Americans owe loyalty to Mexico over the United States.

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Registered: 08-30-2008
Sat, 10-17-2009 - 11:58pm

Well - if they feel more loyal to Mexico .. then they should live in Mexico.

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Registered: 02-24-2009
Sun, 10-18-2009 - 10:04am
This was the opinion of people who live IN Mexico, not that of Mexicans who live in the US.
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Registered: 03-18-2000
Sun, 10-18-2009 - 10:16am

Here's the actual article from this ulta-right wing 'news' site.......


Poll: Mexicans say Mexican-Americans Owe Loyalty to Mexico Over U.S.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
By Adam Brickley
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55496
(CNSNews.com) - Nearly 70 percent of Mexicans surveyed said that Mexican-Americans – including those born in the United States – owe their primary loyalty to Mexico, not the U.S., according to a Zogby poll commissioned by the Center for Immigration Studies.

The in-person poll, taken during August and September, sampled 1,004 Mexicans across the country on subjects related to illegal immigration and amnesty in the United States.

 


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Registered: 04-05-2002
Sun, 10-18-2009 - 11:26am
I think people from the US would feel the same way. When Americans live abroad, I'd think most should feel an allegiance first and foremost to the US, assuming they'd grown up here. That's why there was such an uproar when John Walker was caught fighting for the Taliban as an American.










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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sun, 10-18-2009 - 11:44am

Thank you...I was just going to post & ask for a link to the ENTIRE article...not just the misleading parts that were posted in the OP.


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Sun, 10-18-2009 - 12:22pm

I've lived in the US 40+ years but I still have feelings/loyalty for my country of birth. It's natural unless someone has been a politcal prisoner or some such experience.


 


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Registered: 04-05-2002
Sun, 10-18-2009 - 12:45pm

There was a movie when I was really young about an older man in a Japanese internment camp who was born in Japan but lived in the US for decades. He was asked who he wanted to win the war and he replied, "If your mother and father were fighting, you wouldn't want one to kill the other. You'd just want them to stop." Having lived in the US for almost my whole life, I will always have an allegiance to it so I understand what you mean.

For those who quote this study as an anti-mexican sentiment, I wonder how they feel about John Walker, though. Do they support his allegiance to another country/government, enough to fight against his own?











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Registered: 08-30-2008
Sun, 10-18-2009 - 7:38pm

These are the original comments that irked me:


"Camarota also told CNSNews.com that just over one-third of respondents (36 percent)

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Registered: 08-30-2002
Sun, 10-18-2009 - 9:20pm

***they come here .. make money .. dont pay taxes ..****


Actually many have taxes and social security witheld and will never see the benefit



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Mon, 10-19-2009 - 1:44am
I have tried to explain this in various ways on various boards over the years, but usually people refuse to believe it.

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