Annotations for Places: England

It used to be like almost a mom-and-pop operation. Dad would go out and promote son and daughter for their band or whatever. Now they've got big sponsors and they've got huge industry behind them, and it's a great thing. It's a great, it's a building process and right now it's reaching all around the world. It's a rave thing in Germany right now, and Great Britain. So, Tejano music is finally getting the recognition it deserves.

Our celebrated Mexican independence is not like American democracy. The Puritans were free the day they left England on the Mayflower. The Spaniards, however, transformed the America they discovered with every touch and every torment. They came to evangelize their Catholic tradition and so redeemed the Spanish crown with pure Indian gold. While the Puritans established independent colonies from the beginning, the Spaniard established dependent missions.

And that's one of the problems when you have these socialized systems like in England where I hear that the people in Great Britain are extraordinarily dissatisfied with their system now because of the lack of quality and also the total bureaucratic morass.