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Jim Goad: In Praise of Mexican Inventors

June 16, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Jim Goad on “Aztec open heart surgery” and other marvels:

Most of the DREAMers are from Mexico, a nation of 120 million whose residents love their country so much, they keep fleeing it to live in the United States.

Apart from a mean IQ of 87, what will these diminutive and swarthy newcomers bring to the table in terms of success? In his book Travels in Mexico and Life Among The Mexicans, Frederick Albion Ober speaks of the nation’s “inventive genius.”

OK, then, what have Mexicans invented?

 

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