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• Mexicans

• Feelings of Inferiority

• Nihilists, suspicious

• Seek to transform the nation’s ideals

• Seek to redeem the world

• Believers

• Love myths and legends

• Sorrowful and sarcastic

• Drink to confess

• Quietists

• Enjoy their wounds

• Americans

• Feelings of Superiority

• Optimists, trusting

• Seek to realize the nation’s ideals

• Seek to perfect the world

• Skeptics

• Fairy tales and detective stories

• Happy and full of Jokes

• Drink to forget

• Activists

• Enjoy their inventions

From Octavio Paz, Labryinth of Solitude

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