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OMG, that country is a complete and total basket case. What exactly do Mexicans feel PROUD about in their country? There government and law enforcement is utterly corrupt and the biggest asset their economy has is mowing lawns for the Yankees.

We are certainly lucky to live in this country, for all the complaining we tend to do.

We are certainly lucky to live in this country, for all the complaining we tend to do.

Yeah, but I'm pissed off because no one gives me free turkeys and the cable just went out.

A few notes:

* Mexico actually once was a major world power, with its own (almost certainly indigenous) written language. Mexico City was an impeccably clean and splendid city, and easily among the most populous in the world. Then Cortes brought smallpox and cocolitzi erupted.

* We owe the domestication of teosite into corn to the (ancient) Mexicans. This crop has served as the cornerstone of the American economy for a millennium.

* Mexico is not a "third-world" backwater but a free, democratic federal republic with a service-based economy only now emerging into the modern world. It enjoys one of the highest standards of living in Latin America (excluding Caribbean tourist resort countries). Mexico is a land of grinding poverty and corruption only by comparison to its neighbor to the north.

* The nation has prospered (by the standards of the rest of the world, not the US) despite decades of abject misrule, widespread corruption, occasional disastrous experiments in communism, and deep-rooted class barriers reflecting intense economic stratification.

* And last, but not least, even lowly Mexico can beat the French in battle!

We are certainly lucky to live in this country, for all the complaining we tend to do.

Let me guess. You probably don't reside in the southwestern US. In the southwest it is their country.

We in California aren't lucky because we live in the third world. Our lieutenant governor, the speaker of our state assembly, our most influential state senator and the mayor of our largest city would be considered illegal aliens if they lived in California prior to FDR. Today we simply call them anchor babies. Even our governor is the citizen of a foreign country.