But I have to point that out one thing every one is reluctant to say for the reason of political correctness. I seldom go to Wal-Mart because it is too crowd and full of cheapy stuffs. But whenever I go I always see more than half of the shoppers are Hispanic and with bunch of kids. I see young teeager looking Hispanic chicas having 5 or more kids all the time. I shook my head every time I see that. My generation in my original culture has lot of siblings because the number of kids means good insurance policy for high mortality of infant death and good social security when parents get old to my parents generation. But in this industrial society with nuclear family, big family is not a good insurance policy any more to the parents and major stumbling block to make quantum leap from the third world to the advanced.

So what thay did was intensive campaign to make family size smaller. Every parents wanted to have as many sons as possible because it was male dominant society. There were lot of families had 10 children with only son at the last minute. I am not exagerating at all. So the campaign’s catch phrase was “2 kids only whther girl or boy”.

The only difference between my country and all the south American coutries was this family size except mine has no natural resources at all and all the south American countries have vast lands and unbelievable natural resources. We had corruption, police brutality, coup-de-tat, dictatorship, street demonstration, smells of urine every 20 feet on every street, no tap water, no sewer system, polluted streams, deforested mountains, inefficiency, being jailed without trial, guilty unless proven innocent, ….. you name it we had it. Our public school distrbuted wormer tablets to students periodically because we had full of parasites in internal organs coming from all the vegitables in result of using human waste as a fertilizer. Then how they turned the country into an advaced rich one from the bottom in a single generation?

There is co-relationship between education and family size. The more educated you are the less children you want. It is not Newton’s natural law so we can not tell why but it is an undeniable truth. Now it becomes a matter of whether egg is the first or hen. The more children you have the less you will have your children get education.
The vicious cycle of more children and less education go on and on.

The education is only catalyst which makes a society being metamorphosed from the uncivil to civility, ineficiency to efficiency, and this will do domino effects on others including corruption, political stability, and etc. The good example is China even she has still long way to go to achieve all others. But they broke the vicious cycle despite of all the liberal’s protest as being inhumane from all over the world.

In Latin America it is totally different story. More than 90 % of the population is catholic which Vatican endoctrinates their value of life and quite significant portion of population is indigenous or mixture of them which still have tremendous challenge to adapt to this culture of modern civilization like American Indians. It is very interesting to watch but I’ll be gone to eternity by that time.

What is my point?
Only Latino’s can change their fate. Latinos have everything in their land except their will to change. Blaming gringo will not help to make the change.

Can you tell me where in the US you were living?

I agree that Peru’s age-discrimination is horrific. The average Peruvian is 24 years of age, and ads in newspapers routinely specify that applicants be “between 25 and 35 years of age” only.

I’m also disturbed that some backward elements in the U.S. are blaming blacks and Hispanics for the subprime mortgage crisis. That blame is so misplaced. The banking industry itself is at fault. It infuriates and saddens me to read the hateful comments that some white Americans are posting online. Trends like that are ominous.

I will be writing soon about blogs by Peruvians living in the U.S., so hold onto your hat, EK. Right now I am aware of Peruvian bloggers in Washington DC, New Jersey, Chicago and Miami. I’d like to find more.