NYT: No, the Conquistadors Are Not Back. It's Just Wal-Mart.

HarveyBriggs

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Mon Sep-27-04 11:29 PM
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NYT: No, the Conquistadors Are Not Back. It's Just Wal-Mart.

Wal Mart next to the Mexican Pyramids.

What next?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/international/americas/28mexico.html?hp

I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm betting that pyramid will be there long after the Wal-Mart becomes a roller-rink.

Harvey Briggs

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Cats Against Frist

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Mon Sep-27-04 11:56 PM
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1. Wal-Mart is the Largest Private Employer in Mexico?

Good Grief. I'm glad I was born when I was, and hopefully, my natural lifespan will snuff me out before I have to have a "Wal-Mart Citizen ID" microchip implanted in my arm or something.

And that's totally wrong about the Wal-Mart being next to the ruins. So wrong, that's the only comment I can make: wrong.

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sr_pacifica

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Tue Sep-28-04 01:58 AM
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2. That's appalling---a factual correction to the article, though

I don't believe the Teotihuacan pyramids were built by the Mayans, but rather by the Aztecs.

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Bridget Burke

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Tue Sep-28-04 05:16 AM
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3. The Teotihuacan pyramids weren't built by either.

They're the centerpiece of a great urban center that fell in the 7th century. We don't know what language the builders spoke or what they called themselves; archeological evidence indicates that groups from different parts of (what's now called) Mexico lived & worked there during it's peak.

The Nahua-speaking Aztecs were highly impressed by the ruins & gave them the names used today. Meanwhile, the Mayan great civilization had come & gone, but the Maya still live in the more southerly parts of Mesoamerica.

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sr_pacifica

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Tue Sep-28-04 04:48 PM
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4. Thank you for clarification n/t

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