Currency Discrimination

I was reading Macleans just a short while ago and came upon a news article about A restaurant along the mexican border that just started accepting Mexican Pesos as payment:

"A pizza chain has been hit with death threats and hate mail after offering to accept Mexican pesos, becoming another flashpoint in the nation's debate over immigrants. 'This is the United States of America, not the United States of Mexico,' one e-mail read. 'Quit catering to the damn illegal Mexicans,' demanded another."

Wow, don't you love ignornance.

Macleans did point out that shops in Minnesota and New York take Canadian dollars as well:

"Wal-Mart, H-E-B supermarkets and other American businesses in towns along the Mexican border accept pesos. And some businesses in New York and Minnesota communities along the northern border accept Canadian dollars. The difference here is that many of the pizza joints are far from the border, in places like Dallas, more than 650 kilometres away, and Denver, more than 1,130 kilometres. 'If people would understand that the majority of our customers are Hispanic, then it might make more sense for a company to sell pizza for pesos,' Gamm said. 'It doesn't make sense in Connecticut. And it doesn't make sense in North Dakota or in Maine. But it makes perfect sense here in Dallas, in Phoenix, in Denver - areas far from the border that have significant Hispanic populations.' The company said it has received hundreds of e-mails, some supportive, most critical."

Its great that people think its just mexicans that come to the U.S. illegally, people from Canada and Western Europe do it all the time, and they definatley don't get away with it.

Wake up people and try to see things from outside your ass.