WB on its critics

[Brad DeLong]

>David Hearne wrote:
>
>>Curiously enough, isn't it the perceived "cosmopolitanism" and
>>"cultural cross-pollination" (real or not) which partially drives
>>right-wingers like Pat Buchanan against NAFTA?
>
>Absolutely. He's written lurid stuff about Haitans playing the drums 
>on the streets of his hometown, Washington. His pals at Chronicles 
>write about all the animists and primitives invading our shores. 
>This is what the paranoia about Mexican trucks is all about.
>
>On cross-pollination: At an opening at the aboriginal arts center in 
>Adelaide, Australia, a couple of weeks ago, we heard an aboriginal 
>man playing guitar with a karaoke-style tape in the instrumental 
>background singing "Okie from Muskogee." Aborigines love American 
>country music.
>
>Doug

The guitar? Not the didjederoo?

And let me hasten to defend our brothers and sisters the Teamsters: 
opposition to Mexican trucks is 80% fear of low-wage competition, 19% 
genuine fear about maintenance standards, and 1% Buchanan-style fear 
of the wogs...

Brad DeLong