tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post5744497159474358012..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Mardi Gras MulticulturalismBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-46950204105466105362017-03-01T23:47:31.069-05:002017-03-01T23:47:31.069-05:00It's a puzzler- people in the Latin world on t...It's a puzzler- people in the Latin world on the whole seem to be less racist. I know that Latino intellectuals in the 20th Century talked about being the 'raza cosmica', because many of them traced their ancestry back to Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-85761850031775415042017-03-01T12:20:18.038-05:002017-03-01T12:20:18.038-05:00I love New Orleans, and I'm close enough to it...I love New Orleans, and I'm close enough to it to be able to get there every few years.<br /><br />In a nation of immigrants, it shouldn't have to be considered "open-minded" to take in different cultures. <br /><br />I don't know what our problem is here. Brazil had slavery, didn't it? Yet they don't seem to have the race problems we've had here. Maybe it's because the population has intermarried a lot more - or vice versa.<br /><br />Are we just more fearful than other countries?Harry Hamidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13176265571549991218noreply@blogger.com