Very cosmopolitan.
Posted on 02/25/2017 3:33:15 PM PST by Ennis85
Americans' patronising views of their southern neighbour are ill-informed, outdate and about to backfire on them Visiting California, I'm always shocked how Americans-even vaping, Prius-driving liberal Democrats-treat their Mexican staff. Need someone to toil in the sun for 12 hours on minimum wage? Need a nanny who won't kick off when you're constantly late? Hire a Mexican. Employers engage little with these people who inhabit their yards and homes(the language barrier is cited) but if they do, the tone is exquisitely patronising. Mexicans aren't so much individuals as a class of biddable brown Untermensch. Likewise President Trump has addressed the Mexican government like a lazy pool-cleaner, a bus-boy who dropped a tray. We'll build a wall-and you'll damn well pay for it. And latterly, we're going to deport all illegal immigrants and dump them over your border, even if they're not actually Mexicans. Travelling around American's southern neighbour these past few weeks. I've wondered if Trump knows what he is dealing with. Has he seen Mexico City's skyscrapers and glittery airport, the growing middle class who fill vast malls and VIP cinemas? Roads, even in the poorer south, are no worse than in New York City. This is the second biggest economy in Latin America, an upwardly mobile, modern democracy of 120 million people, being dissed as a tin-pot, dust bowl loser. Not all Mexicans are as livid as their former president Vicente Fox whose "we're not paying for no f**king wall" tweets have so amusingly breached diplomatic protocol. People I met were more baffled, insulted and hurt. And these feelings, already being harnessed will benefit Mexico and damage America. The term "malinchismo" describes a Mexican self-hatred, a sense that foreign products, ideas, even people are inherently superior to home grown. White faces dominate magazines in a majority mestizo land. All things American have long had a special allure and a status often unequal to their quality. As I tried on a jacket in a fancy department store, the assistant warned me: "You do know it is a Mexican brand?" But already Mexicans are spending less on US goods in part because Trump's belligerence has crashed the peso, but also a defiant new nationalism is brewing. A businesswoman reports that all her Mexican friends, even apolitical socialites, have changed their WhatApp avatars from Cancun bikini snaps to the national flag. Fanners at recent nationwide anti-Trump rallies called for dignity and respect. A student told me; "He might just unite us all."
As a tourist I kept thinking facetiously, it's Mexico that should build the wall. Keep out the American visitors who demand that a deep, delicate ancient culture bows to their thin, tinny one bringing diabolical coffee, gargantuan portions, the Cola-Cola that has caused Mexico's obesity crisis, the corruption of a fine, fresh local cuisine into bowel-clogging Tex-Mex. In lovely colonial towns like San Miguel de Allende, snowbirds trying to eke out Minnesota pensions have driven up house prices. Lathery, pony-tailed hippies browse English bookshops full of atrocious, self- published, expat memoirs about suburban moms "finding themselves" here. "Americans have not looked for Mexico in Mexico". said the poet Octavio Paz, "they have looked for their obsessions, enthusiasms, phobias". That Trump's wall will keep out the "bad hombres" is a particularly pointed insult. Overall crime in Mexico is marginally- 2 percent-higher than in the US. But in America, gun crime is six times greater. In Mexico there are no street-corner gun shops, as in Miami or Houston; indeed gun laws are closer to those in Britain. In theory citizens have a right to bear arms; in practice; it is virtually impossible. And where do the guns come from used by the brutal narco gangs of breaking bad fame? They are bought legally in America. Between 2009 and 2014, around 70,000 firearms seized by Mexican authorities were found to originate in the US, mainly from Southwest border states. The "bad hombres" are armed by America. Indeed the ruthless drug cartels that kill and maim, ruin whole communities and corrupt local democracy, feed a degenerate and wholly American appetite for heroin, cocain and crystal meth. Mexico's drug problem is negligible, use of opiates is opiates is six times lower than in the US. Moreover, it is the choas and violence caused by the cartels that drives migration across the border. If America wanted to keep down illegals, it could save $15 billion on a wall, stop partying, put its alienated addicted youth into rehab and reform its guns laws. Of course, it never will. It is possible that every brick in Trump's theoretical(and most likely unfeasible) wall could help to build Mexico. Already there is evidence of "Trump Slump", with European holiday inquiries about America tumbling. With his every utterance, Trump pulls up the national welcome mat a little more. Meanwhile Mexico's tourist trade is booming. More significantly, a high-level US banker remarks that the smart money is betting on Mexico inward investment will flourish. Meanwhile malinchismo will fade, making it patriotic to buy local goods. And its politicians are growing braver. If Trump tears up NAFTA, imposing tariffs to pay for his wall, Mexico will retaliate: already it threatens to stop buying an annual $2.4 billion of US corn and look instead to Argentina or Brazil. A temperamentally chilled-out nation is rising. America may find that the hardworking neighbour who mows its lawns, cares for its kids, clears up its mess without complaint won't be bullied any more.
Working down there, I had to fly into Mexico City. Toilets in the men’s room we’re broken, some removed and crap everywhere. Back roads are nasty with large potholes everywhere. Not sure which Mexico the author is describing but wasn’t what I saw the two years I worked there.
The upwardly mobile Euro-Mexicans have been pushing the Amerindian population out of their country into ours.
As another freeper pointed out, it’s a lot easier to export poverty than to cure it.
“Trump Cabo San Lucas Resort, in Baja, USA”
This is another example of not even fake news. It falls into the category of not even news, just junk posing as news!
This isn’t even fake news. It is Junk News posing as fake news.
Junk News like junk food will kill you...................eventually................
Dr. Oz: EEG Brain Scans Reveal Fake News Threatens Your Health
Observer ^ | 2/23/17 | Dr. Mehmet Oz
Posted on 2/23/2017, 9:55:44 AM by Mozilla
Our show will spotlight a first-of-its-kind social experiment to identify the dangerous and disruptive effect of fake news on our brains. We had high profile fake news creator Jestin Coler craft two fictional stories: one designed to prey on liberals and another on conservatives.
Women read the articles, not knowing they were fake, as neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen gathered quantitative EEG assessments.
The findings supported results of a functional MRI study recently published in Nature Scientific Reports, which showed how challenging a person’s political beliefs could activate the parts of the brain associated with emotion and self-identity.
A self-described liberal woman in our social experiment reported feeling sad after reading a fictional article on illegal immigrants, but revealed stronger irritation and anger when processing a fake story about a jailed climate change researcher. Simultaneous changes in her brain activity were also much greater when processing the climate change story and correlated with a strong emotional response of angst and fear.
A conservative woman demonstrated opposite reactions. For her, the article on illegal immigration elicited changes in brain activity changes that you would see during a physical threat.
The women were not told that the articles were fake until they were seated on stage. What happened next was startling. First, the women understandably, but awkwardly, tried to defend why they believed the false stories, rather than expressing frustration that they had been duped. This natural human tendency was highlighted by one woman’s comment that while the news was fake, it reinforced a truth she felt about our country—so the piece was tolerable.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3528304/posts
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The demonrats have never given up on slavery, right now their preferred slave demographic is illegal alien.
Pretty much what I was thinking. If the illegals are such wonderful hard-working people, seems as though their country would want them back.
If, on the other hand, the illegals really are disproportionately poor and criminal compared to the average population of Mexico, then maybe not so much.
Seven, to get to 57.
Far from being an ally, as a “neutral” country during WWII they hosted German spies.
Very cosmopolitan.
You know, if we took over the territory of the northern mexican states, the length of the wall could be reduced by about 25%
I think thats Trinidad?
“It’s easy to have a booming middle class in a vibrant,glittery capital city when you export all your poverty.”
I guarantee you, if Janice went to Mexico City, she turned herself over to an experienced tour guide...who never let her see poverty. If she navigated the city on her own, she’d still be there...lost.
“And where do the guns come from used by the brutal narco gangs of breaking bad fame? They are bought legally in America.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/myth-percent-small-fraction-guns-mexico-come.html
We don’t care if Mexico takes anything but these damned illegal aliens!!
Right....Mexico won’t even take these ‘valuable’ Mexican citizens back.
Tells this fake news bird cage liner bs all they need to know.
Hey !
Mexico...What You gonna Do About It!
I guess Janice misses the good old days in Mexico.
I searched “Mexico city slums” and that came up. If it’s not, blame Bing. Looks a lot like Caracas too.
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