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I consider Latin Americans to be my brothers; I feel tied to this land now, and I somehow feel closer to Latin Americans than I do Europeans. I know a lot of you white Americans here will disagree with this, but my thinking is difficult to explain.
To be brief: My family has been living under this hot humid sun for 300 years. My grand-parents and their grand-parents have worked this land and lived in this place long enough to be a part of it, and we don't belong anywhere else. In this respect, I feel far far closer to a Mexican than I do to an Englishman, or any European.
This should be true for all old-stock colonial Americans, and even though they might try to deny it, in reality it's the truth.
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