[southernnorthcarolina]

Can someone explain to me why Mexico and the Mexicans are now, and always have been, so decrepit and backward? It is beyond my comprehension, given that they've lived next door to the greatest nation in the history of the planet for over two hundred years. You'd think they'd have picked up some good ideas along the way from their neighbor to the north, rather than the worst behaviors of their screwed up neighbors to their south. What's the basis of their problem? Inquiring minds want to know...

Maybe it has something to do with our open borders. Those with initiative (whether for good or for ill) run for the border. Those without take another siesta.

[tertiary01]

Regarding the backward state of Mexico.
I think it is because the Mexican government discourages and sometimes outright forbids the importation of technology that would get them out of the stone ages.

Something about the theory of keeping the masses busy so they will not have the time or energy to rise up and overthrow the status quo.... And let the excess migrate elsewhere!!!