Thread: CA: new Mex. Consul wants to showcase Mex culture in U.S.

This arrogant woman has no idea that Americans have for decades been exposed to more Mexican "culture" in the U.S. than anyone can stand.....in our schools, in our welfare systems, in our public housing, in our jails and prisons....Americans don't need to know anymore about "Mexican Culture"...we have had enough of our fill already........

New Mexican consul's goals


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10:00 PM PST on Friday, January 2, 2009

By DAVID OLSON
The Press-Enterprise

As Consul Carolina Zaragoza Flores sat in her new office at the Mexican consulate in San Bernardino, a few hundred people crowded into the lobby and foyer outside.

They were there to pick up documents, apply for identification cards or seek other Mexican-government services. Some had been waiting more than two hours.

One of the goals Zaragoza has had since taking office as Mexican consul on Dec. 1 is reducing wait times and improving services for Mexican nationals. She also hopes to increase cultural exchanges between the Inland area and Mexico.

To make lines at the consulate move more quickly, Zaragoza plans to move four employees from a mobile consulate into consular offices in downtown San Bernardino.

The mobile consulate now provides certain consular services throughout the Inland area, usually for several days in a row. With four of the mobile consulate's eight employees moving to the main office, Zaragoza will limit the mobile consulate to visits to outlying areas, such as the Coachella Valley and Blythe, eliminating stops near San Bernardino. In addition, the mobile consulate will only make visits on weekends, when demand for mobile services is highest, she said.

The San Bernardino consulate covers Riverside and San Bernardino counties, which are home to almost 1.6 million people of Mexican ancestry, almost 40 percent of the population, according to 2007 Census estimates.
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"Culture, like music, has no borders," says Mexican consul Carolina Zaragoza Flores of the cultural exchange she would like to promote. "It's important that people who live ... in the same area get to know each other."

Zaragoza, 50, has worked as a diplomat for 26 years. She came to San Bernardino after serving as a deputy consul in Houston and consul in Raleigh, N.C. She previously held posts in the Sacramento and St. Louis consulates.

Zaragoza replaces Carlos I. Giralt Cabrales, who spent 5 ½ years in San Bernardino before leaving in April for a post in the foreign-affairs ministry in Mexico City. JeremÃ*as Guzmán Barrera, who served as acting consul in San Bernardino before Zaragoza arrived, returned to his position as deputy consul.

Zaragoza is already meeting with county, city, police, education, immigration and business officials.

She is also preparing for Inland celebrations in 2010 to mark the bicentennial of the battle cry of the Mexican war for independence from Spain, and for the centennial of the beginning of the Mexican revolution. The commemorations could include exhibits in Inland museums or other institutions, she said.

The exhibits would be part of a broadened cultural exchange that Zaragoza is planning. She hopes to have more displays of Mexican painting, sculpture and photography in the Inland area, and to help arrange for Inland artists' work to be displayed in Mexico. Zaragoza also envisions exchanges of professors, and lectures by Mexican historians and artists in the Inland area.

"It's a way to understand Mexican culture more deeply," she said. "These are ways to promote the image of Mexico through culture and art. ... It's important that people who live together in the same area get to know each other better."

The exhibits would expose non-Mexicans to Mexican culture and help the hundreds of thousands of descendants of Mexican immigrants in the Inland area to have stronger links to their ancestors' homeland, Zaragoza said.

"Culture, like music, has no borders," she said.

Reach David Olson at 951-368-9462 or dolson@PE.com

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Keep your eyes open, before we know it they will be forming their own government in our country!!

It's a way to understand Mexican culture more deeply," she said.

We understand the Mexican culture all too clearly, moron. Save it for somebody stupid enough to fall for that line of crap anymore.

I just love how you say it like it is wreath

They are worse than gays trying to shove thier "culture" down our throats.
Im sick of it.

Culture of what? A failed civilization, Renagade Corrupt Government, one of the most violent cultures and countries on earth? No thanks i've been to mexico and seen it up close, ill pass..........

We have had enough of their culture. The rape and molestation of women and children in this country by illegal aliens according to their "culture" is permissible as the age of consent is 12 and sex offenses are an acceptable part of their culture which they proudly have introduced to ours. Also let's not forget about drunk driving which also is an accepted part of their culture along with murder, robbery, identity theft, drug distribution, MS-13 gangs and the violation of our borders and sovereignty, gaming our health care, education and welfare systems, taking jobs from Americans and giving birth to endless numbers of bambinos at taxpayer expense while illegally in this country all resulting in the collapse of our schools, hospitals and the introduction of diseases long ago eradicated in this country but reappearing with alarming frequency.
And we can't forget the display of their culture when they marched in OUR streets yelling and screaming "gringos go back to Africa and Europe, this was our land first" threatening the American people with genocide if we don't comply while demanding benefits and privileges meant for US citizens. Struggling Americans have been forced to pay 400 billion dollars annually for illegal alien health care, welfare, education, food stamps, social security and other benefits to support their culture along with 25 billion dollars in remittances going to their countries since their own corrupt government refuses to lift a finger to help them using us as a financial crutch instead. Their "culture" is transforming our country into a lawless, corrupt, drug, gun, crime, poverty, gang, disease infested and bankrupt third world cesspool. They should take their own damn culture back to their own damn country. If we don't do anything to stop this, their culture will be our culture........

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

I just love how you say it like it is wreath

Well thank you SoSad......you're no shrinking violet in that department yourself! You know how to give 'em what-for

Are they going to have a display of the more than 5,000 people who were killed in the WAR IN MEXICO in 2008.
The must be so proud.

Their culture has been celebrated here for like forever. Is this something new? Although I am fine with people celebrating their culture I just don't see this as news in Mexifornia.