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That doesn't surprise me at all. I once dated a white Cuban who turned out to be the biggest boorish racist I ever met, not to mention the fact he suffered from a HUGE Madonna Whore complex. I ran from that guy after a few dates, because he had some deep seated issues!

Unfortunately, there are many who think like him in Latin culture, just as there are so many homophobes, machos, and other distasteful types. This is why I thank God for my parents each and every day! They had the good sense not to teach that, as did my husband's mother in El Salvador. I think some of this is weeding out with successive generations, but it has a ways to go...just like in the U.S.

Something you wouldn't see today....I recall watching a German immigrant in San Francisco, who my mother approached about renting an apartment. The old woman raised a broom to try to hit my mother with it for standing on her doorstep and asking about a vacant apartment, explaining to my Argentine mother that she "didn't rent to Mexicans because they left pig intestines all over the place". I remember that so clearly, because to this day I can't believe that one immigrant felt more entitled to live in the U.S., enough so to actually try to chase someone off by threatening them with a broom, than another. And I remember my mother taking that broom out of the old biddy's hand and telling her that she was a "foreigner" in the U.S. too, and telling the German woman that she should feel very lucky that day, since my mother didn't beat the crap out of her with her own weapon. Things have changed a great deal since then, but the odd behavior of entitlement is still there on a more subtle level in many countries.