I wanted to share this thread that I stumbled into via The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan.
It's a Reddit thread on the topic "Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker?" which quickly becomes a collection of dozens of stories of people (mostly Americans) who have experienced first-hand the kindness of Mexican immigrants ready to help them when they were in a rough situation, like getting stuck on the side of a road with a flat tire and with hundreds of SUVs speeding by without any attempt to help them.
Here's the thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/have_you_ever_picked_up_a_hitchhiker/c18z0z2
I enjoyed it tremendously and hope you will, too. Especially as an example of how stereotypes created by the mass media come to distort the image of our Southern neighbors.
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