"The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New."

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“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”

“was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”

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