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.
Hillside homes, ALL with VIEWS!
Accepting Illegal Immigrants into society is racist, it is the lowest form of racism
It imports people who can only become slaves of the leftist elitists and robs their countries of people who would change their own societies for the better.
It also allows criminals to come to the country to prey on the population of rank and file of the society that imported them.
In other words, a disaster for everyone.
Janice Turner should GF herself.
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH Janine Turner
I didn't know that.
It's all America's fault. How shall we ever make amends.
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No, Mexico was an ally, not neutral during WWII—not saying that German spies weren’t in Mexico.
Saying that, Mexico has used us as a safety valve for their excess underclass for a long time now and there is nothing wrong with our putting a stop to it. I’m sure that a majority of illegals are not out to undermine our nation, but are here to improve the lives of themselves and their families, which is much easier to do here than back home. But, there are millions of Americans who have been undercut out of their jobs because of these people. Young American men, who used to be able to make an honest living doing dirty, unpleasant work are unemployed. It’s time for the Mexican illegals to leave.
OK. Keep your people. Solved.
ESAD, limey skank.
No, Mexico was an ally, not neutral during WWII—not saying that German spies weren’t in Mexico. Much of the article is BS. Vital, delicate culture indeed! But Mexico does have pride. If you are near the border by San Diego, you’ll see they make it a point to fly a huge flag—a kind of “We’re not you!”
Mexico has used us as a safety valve for their excess underclass for a long time now and there is nothing wrong with our putting a stop to it. I’m sure that a majority of illegals are not out to undermine our nation, but are here to improve the lives of themselves and their families, which is much easier to do here than back home. But, there are millions of Americans who have been undercut out of their jobs because of these people. Young American men, who used to be able to make an honest living doing dirty, unpleasant work are unemployed. It’s time for the Mexican illegals to leave.
They already have unfortunately.
Has this rose colored glasses fool SEEN Mexican illegals here? What dirty, ill mannered ferals they are? Using up social service benefits to which they’re not even entitled, and having the chutzpah to complain they want more? How about the crimes they commit, the deaths and robberies to Americans they cause? Bet this ditz hasn’t seen any of THAT.
The rich and powerful in Mexico are mainly white Europeans. It is the under class, Indios and Mestizos, who come to El Norte. The ruling class in Mexico is ok with that. The Mexican Nationals in the US also help pay for the underclass that remains in Mexico through remissions. If the Current status quo changes and millions of poor and uneducated Mexican nationals return to their mother country there could be much social unrest. Viva Zapata.
What a steaming pile of poop.
If it is so great, why are they clamoring to come here?
Tourist. That means this idiot doesn’t live here, putting up with the illegals.
She's a farking Brit, so you bank on her being a farking socialist too! Bitching about how employers treat Mexicans, tarring everyone with a broad brush, I note though that ignorant cow thinks all Hispanics are Mexican or maybe she doesn't care how Central Americans are treated.
As far as paying them minimum wage? BFD, it's what unskilled, uneducated Americans get payed too! I'll wager she thinks the minimum wage would be too low if it were $15 an hour, totally ignoring that is the wage for journeymen in a skilled trade, let's give to unskilled, ignorant laborers. Let's not give them a incentive to better themselves, let's reward ignorance and sloth and let's do it on the backs of the elderly and others who don't get a wage increase.
Mexico won't take these supposed insults much longer? What are they gonna do, stop sending us their uneducated, unskilled, over reproducing dregs? Who will then send billions of American dollars back to keep their third world economy afloat? I say cool, keep their citizens, and we can pull all the manufacturing jobs out, we can have phones made elsewhere, we can build appliances here, who can't find another beer to replace Mexican beer? Hell if we can manage manufacturing without unions, the cost might even be reasonable.
Maybe Mexico will refuse to sell us their produce, that might be a hardship, but think of all the E-Coli outbreaks we would miss without crops urinated and defecated in and non existent sanitation procedures.
Life without Mexico might be difficult, but I'm pretty damn sure it be the USA that blinks first.
Mexico has been sucking on a US tit throughout history and for the most part the US has been a willing sow. If you know about raising them, you know that a sow is happy and content when all the piggies are sucking. There must be a lesson here but I can’t think of one!
“If it is so great, why are they clamoring to come here?”
Because of cartels according to her.
since you can’t drink the water, hotel rooms provide bottled water and warn guests - DON’T DRINK THE WATER - or you will suffer Montezuma’s Revenge.
First of all, Ms. Turner, in America people don’t ‘toil in the sun’ for 12 hours. Laborers usually start about 6am and finish by 1pm. Second, they earn $150 or more a day. Third, Americans need babysitters because they’re busy being slaves to the world, and babysitters love California because they get to charge $15 for every 10 minutes one is late picking up little Johnny, and those ‘late fees’ are the bread and butter of their budgets. And fourth, “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..” then those 120 million upwardly mobile people can surely afford to spend some of that ‘glittery’ money on their own poor and help them become upwardly mobile instead of chasing them out of their own country and dumping them on the USA - who, as mentioned before, are already slaves to the world and don’t need any more socialism craving dependents. Good day.
Maybe if the Mexican government weren’t corrupt, along with the military and police departments, Mexicans wouldn’t want to come here. Maybe if the Mexican people could arm themselves, then they wouldn’t suffer from drug cartels and other criminals, and could revolt against their corrupt government. Maybe if the Mexican government would take care of it’s poor, they wouldn’t want to come here. I seriously doubt that Mexico, out of concern for the drug problem in America, has any desire to stop the flow of drugs pouring into the U.S. Nor are desirous of stopping the flow of dollars to Mexico, from illegal immigrants here. Their economy DEPENDS on the dollars sent from here, as well as the drug money their cartels make here.
It is ludicrous to blame the U.S. for the drug cartel activities. Yes, there’s a market for drugs here, but believe me, we would soon learn to do without them if they stopped coming here. Why are they shipping increasingly larger amounts of heroin here? Because with legalization of marijuana in many states, the cartels can’t make as much money as they want with pot, and they’re not willing to do with less profits. If they weren’t so corrupt, they could stop those cartels; obviously, they don’t want to. We can stop a lot of it, by building a wall, and protecting our borders.
Americans have taken care of Mexico’s poor long enough. It is not our responsibility, other than donating to the poor with voluntary charitable gifts. Start taking care of your own people.
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