{"id":127,"date":"2006-03-21T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/03\/21\/americans-view-mexicans-well-rever"},"modified":"2006-03-21T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T13:06:09","slug":"americans-view-mexicans-well-reverse-not-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/03\/21\/americans-view-mexicans-well-reverse-not-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans view Mexicans well; reverse not true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a177'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Stephen Dinan, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, March 21, 2006<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mexicans<br \/>\nsee Americans as racist, dishonest and exploitative, while Americans<br \/>\nsee Mexicans as hardworking and think they are more tolerant than<br \/>\nAmericans.<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A new survey of attitudes the two countries hold toward each<br \/>\nother showed the border is more than a geographic divide, but also a<br \/>\nfissure in public opinions of the two nations and what their citizens<br \/>\nthink of each other.<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The poll, taken by New York-based Zogby International and the<br \/>\nCentro de Investigacion para el Desarrollo AC in Mexico City, found<br \/>\nthat 62 percent of Mexicans surveyed said the United States is more<br \/>\nwealthy than Mexico because &#8220;it exploits others&#8217; wealth.&#8221; Only 22<br \/>\npercent said it was because the United States is &#8220;a free country where<br \/>\npeople have plenty of opportunity to work.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Among Americans, 78 percent saw Mexicans as hardworking, and<br \/>\n44 percent saw them as tolerant. Among Mexicans, just 26 percent saw<br \/>\nAmericans as hardworking, 16 percent saw them as honest and 73 percent<br \/>\nsaid Americans are racist&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Dinan, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, March 21, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mexicans see Americans as racist, dishonest and exploitative, while Americans see Mexicans as hardworking and think they are more tolerant than Americans. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A new survey of attitudes the two countries hold toward each other showed the border is more than a geographic divide, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}