Posted on 10/08/2006 12:32:53 PM PDT by dennisw
No it isn't. China has a large, dynamic, powerful economy even if, in per capita terms, it is still relatively poor. That's pretty self evident. Sorry kid.
The problem is the wealth is so highly concentrated with the racist light skinned spaniards. There is very little opportunity for anyone else.
...and that's why you see SO many US expatriates living in both Mexico and China.
LMAO.
I haven't bothered to confirm your financial stats, largely because I don't care whether they're correct or not.
I *do* know that they're irrelevant to everything that makes a country liveable.
Have a great afternoon.
Aside from Anna-Maria Armbuzzeri (I think I spelled that wrong), the heir to the Corona fortune (and married to U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza) who is BASQUE, not Spanish... and a Spanish emigre who started Wal Mart in Mexico, the wealtiest familes tend to be of partial Lebanese or European-Jewish descent... heavily mixed with your standard Mexican mutt family.
You're joking... right? Did you know that over a million Americans live in Mexico (according to the best State Department estimate)? The numbers in China are lower but fast increasing. These people aren't mowing lawns, but many are there doing business.
And that's because they are in a corrupt and racist country.
If Mexico is so fabulous, then why is the entire population trying to emigrate (illegaly) to the U. S. of A.?
Beyond that, exactly what point (or points) is your diatrible moving toward making?
The VAST majority of Americans living in Mexico, just to be clear, are either:
1. Retirees who like the weather and the low cost of living
2. Workers whose parent companies relocated to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor.
Hardly what I'd call fodder for the Visitor's Bureau pamphlet, but no worries--you'll fit in fine there.
The point I'm trying to make is that it is inane for so-called conservatives to rail against another perfectly-good country, when their only exposure to it consists of a best-forgotten bachelor party in Cancun or Tijuana and a mis-ordered Whopper screwed up by an illegal immigrant with a third grade education. That's like me (a foreigner) judging the US from my first 24 hours in the USA, which largely consisted of an other-than-pleasant stay in the Port Authority Terminal in New York. The entire population of Mexico is not trying to get into the US; if you spent any time there, you'd realize that the country, while obviously developing, has a dynamic and advanced economy and vast wealth.
I'd go to Mexico in a heartbeat...and I'm not talking about Cozumel or Cancun. I'd love to hang out in a village for a week eating blue corn fungus and drinking Tequila.
That said, the immigration issue is huge, made more maddening by a Mexican President who at best is reluctant to help, and at worst, complicit.
Who could hate a country whose namesake dice drinking game (It's called Mexican, if you've never heard of it.) is so much fun?
Enjoyed the discussion, but it's getting late and I'm about to turn into a calabaza...LOL.
Really? Have you ever heard of the "brain drain" from India, China, Taiwan, Russia, and Argentina? Why is it that the South Florida real estate market has been so hot due to wealthy Latin Americans buying houses, often as their primary residence.
Ever hear of Albert Einstein? Roberto Goizueta, etc.? Bright and successful people who left for the U.S.
"Slim" and "Fox" don't sound like Spanish names to me. Neither does "Hayek."
They don't, but from what I can find on the internet, most of the light skinned Mexicans are spanish.
You are aware that Slim and Hayek are respectively Lebanese and half Lebanese (Christians)
there are more billionaires in Mexico per capita than any other country in the world. It is just their common folk are dirt poor and run to this country for work, etc.
the people risking life and limb to come here, are dirt poor and have no education. They are also the Mestizo, lower mexicans that the mexicans don't want.
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