Recent comments by Luis A. Guerra

• Immigration and American Power

  While reading your article I can not help but remember a comment left to an article in the Miami Herald which I later published in my Blog "Stars, Stripes and Stains". Here a quote of that comment:
  
  "Our concept of freedom is so powerful that it even negates the need of a given culture and/or language to exist. In fact, it is the power of our concept of freedom that allows us to assimilate as much or as little as we want from any culture in the world and still remain uniquely American. In the process, our freedom compels us to use our imagination and reshape, transform, refine, etc. everything we assimilate and end up with a uniquely American version of the original; talk about hot dogs, Taco Bell and Brooklyn style pizza.
  
  You should have more faith on the power of our concept of freedom. Immigrants certainly do and eventually are compelled to make it their own regardless of what believes they might have brought with them when they first arrived to the US.
  
  That is the true America; "E pluribus Unum" by the uniqueness and immensely creative as well as galvanizing power of our concept of freedom".

• The Uptick’s Downside

  I am not so sure about the growth anymore and further, I have become sceptic about any official data. In turn people like Mr. Biderman here make sense. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_lsEAsETdoo