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I’m sure you’ve heard the news that Hispanics now make up a record percentage of the American population. The U.S. Census says that one out of every six residents is Latino. Furthermore, in a “surprising show of growth, Hispanics accounted for more than half of the US population increase over the last decade.”

Yes, Latinos are the chief reason that America has avoided a population decline. However, not everyone is grateful, or particularly thrilled, about this fact. In fact, quite a few Americans are angry, anxious, or just plain freaked out over the ascendancy of Hispanics in the United States.

For example, a Texas demographer recently made headlines when he analyzed his state’s ethnic makeup and announced, “It’s basically over for Anglos.” Steve Murdock went on to imply that whites would be practically extinct in Texas within a few decades, adding, “It’s a terrible situation that you [Texas] are in. I am worried.”

Murdock later insisted that he was not pushing for ethnic cleansing. He explained that he was concerned about Latinos’ lower income levels, and in fact, he was advocating for improving the state of Hispanic education.

Even if we give Murdock the benefit of the doubt, his words certainly struck a chord with many Americans who don’t know the identity of their original immigrant ancestor. For such individuals, more Latinos is bad news indeed.

Now, some right-wing groups have been very clever about hiding their racial animosity. Being Latino recently ran an article about a network of organizations that have tried to connect rates of immigration (legal or otherwise) with environmental deterioration. And we know which ethnicity is most closely associated with immigration in America.

The message is clear: Americans who care about Mother Earth — and their own quality of life — have to keep the U.S. population as unchanged as possible. In addition to being xenophobic, however, this approach sidesteps reality. According to the Rand Corporation, it is countries that have the strictest immigration and naturalization policies (such as Japan) that may be in the most economic trouble in the future. Even if America magically stopped all immigration today, Hispanics would still drive population growth, by virtue of the fact that Hispanics tend to be younger and have more children than other groups.

Still, that has not stopped many Americans for advocating for taller fences, as if that will keep the Latino population low. These strategies often backfire. Witness the problems in Brownsville, Texas, where a Department of Homeland Security barrier is so twisty and arbitrary that it has left the homes of many US citizens “stranded on the other side of the fence.” Some Americans have seen their property cut off, and several complain that they “have to find a gap” in the fence to access their land.

We see now why it’s going to be over white people in Texas. Their state keeps fencing them out of the country and forcing them to hop a wall to get in.

Source Daniel Cubias

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Mexican born-billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, who ranked #1 at the recently released list of Forbes Billionaires List for 2011 with a net worth of #74 billion shows his passion and love for art as he unveils a new “public” art museum in Mexico.

The “Soumaya Museum” which was named after his late wife is situated at Plaza Carso, west of Mexico City. It has a distinct shape designed by Carlos’ architect son-in-law Fernando Romero (no news yet that talk about the shape) and walled with octagon shape silver bricks. It is said to house over 60,000 art collection of Carlos and some were identified as works of famous world artists like Rodin, Leonardo da Vinci and other European artists.

It will also feature some works of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
The Soumaya Museum is said to be one part of an 800-million-dollar urban development project called Plaza Carso to help boost Mexico tourism and at the same time gives Mexican an additional job opportunity.

Carlos Slim was not only famous because of his money but his ladder of success is mostly the talk of the blogosphere because of the way he made his fortune. Although it has been said that Carlos had a cushy life growing up because her father is already a wealthy man, his struggle to mark his own name in the industry is somewhat phenomenal.

After finishing his studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Carlos follows his father’s footsteps and began investing in multiple businesses like the other businessmen do but he is one of the rarest person to in invest in companies when the market was weak or undergoing a recession crisis. When the economy isn’t doing so well, it can be nerve-wracking trying to decide what to do with your money. Soon enough these businesses became base of his conglomerate Grupo Carso.

“By using some business tactics and savvy negotiating Slim was able to purchase companies at extremely low prices and have a say in their various interests. With strong management skills Slim was able to increase their value exponentially in the next ten years,” according to an analyst.

The risk that he had taken certainly paid off as he is now the number 1 billionaire in the world for two consecutive years crushing down two of the world’s big names: Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.

And now, he is sharing with the world with the richness he has now by donating to some charity and other foundations and helping his home Mexico to be one of the tycoon countries in the world in the future.

From left: US presenter Larry King, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, his daughter Soumaya Slim, Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, his wife Margarita Zavala and Nobel prize laureate Gabriel García Márquez during the ribbon cutting ceremony of the museum’s grand opening day.

Some of the masterpieces you will see inside the museum: