In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.
I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.
All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.