Poll: N. Americans think better of Mexicans than the reverse.

A bi-national poll conducted by Zogby International of New York and the Mexico City-based Centro de Investigacion para el Desarrollo AC found that 84 percent of North Americans had a favorable opinion of Mexicans, while just 36 percent of the Mexicans polled thought favorably of their neighbors to the north, the Washington Times reported today on its Web site (linked from lucianne.com).

"Mexicans think Americans (sic) are neither hard workers nor honest," the Times quoted a poll report. "They seem them as racist, intolerant and moderately law-abiding."

On the other hand, 78 percent of the North Americans surveyed saw Mexicans as hard-working, but only 26 percent of Mexicans returned the compliment, the Times reported.

Sixty-two percent of Mexicans polled thought the United States was wealthier than Mexico because "it exploits others' wealth," while only 22 percent said it was because the United States is "a free country where people have plenty of opportunity to work," the paper reported.

The poll surveyed 1,010 people in the United States and 1,000 people in Mexico, and had a U.S. margin of error of 3.2 percent and a 3.1 percent margin of error in the Mexican portion, the Times reported.

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