onlooker wrote:Well where to start, Mexico has been exploited and abused first by Spain and then by the US for a long time already. Starting with annexing lots of it's former territory by the US.
Oh please, cry me a river.
Where to start.
For starters, Mexico has done a "reconquista" of the old lands via immigration waves and in case you have not looked around you lately, we are and are becoming a Mexican nation ourselves.
I don't blame Mexicans though, it's our own fault for not getting control of the border like 60 darn years ago when we should have.
But anyhow what's done is done and I may have to finally learn Spanish.
And I don't have anything against latinos, other than the gang situation they import to here, but otherwise we're a melting pot and it's cool -- IT'S JUST BEEN TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH FROM ONE PLACE and we're becoming another Mexico.
About NAFTA -- Mexico is a mess, but nafta actually helped them a lot and brought a lot of jobs into there. At direct expense to jobs here, the US. Not that it was enough though, nothing is ever enough, just more waves of immigration come over.
About "the lost lands" -- they've got no right to them onlooker, for goodness sake, that was centuries ago now. Do you have any idea how empty the Mexican north america was?
It was utterly empty and unsettled. All this development was American. And this is all from another time and they don't have any more right to it than jolly England has any right to take Boston back.
"Mexico" only got its north American provinces because that was all New Spain and Spain had it.
If the US hadn't got it from them then the British just would have taken it, or Russia.
And it was Mexico that invited Americans into Texas to start with. They should have known better. Mexico was always a mess, that's not our fault -- what about that one emperor maximillian, what was he a Hapsburg or something? And then Napoleon put him on the throne of Mexico?
You can't blame Mexico's crazyness all on the US. All of this hemisphere's problems can't be all our fault. Look at Canada -- they do alright, they're not all messed up, right? Latin America's problems have a lot to do with their elite Spanish colonial history and all that oppression that went on. It ain't about us.
Lastly, a nice thing to say about Mexico -- it's where my favorite game comes from. Kerbal space program. I really am a global person and I'm pleased when something so innovative can come out of an unexpected place. Like skype coming from Estonia, and Iceland has done some cool things. It doesn't all have to be American. These are the benefits of globalism, seeing what the rest of the world can come up with that we never thought of.
So it's nice that Mexico has raised up enough now that they've got a tech industry and are doing some interesting innovation.
The drug cartel stuff though is a bunch of crap. The way that judges and prosecutors get shot. That's not our fault. That's a problem they've got, with their society, with their culture, with their history of corruption in politics.
Regarding corn: I'd say all the manufacturing jobs that Mexico got makes up for displaced corn farmers.
It's hard for me to believe that local corn was more expensive than American corn.
But anyhow look at it this way -- there's poor and hungry people in Mexico, and cheaper corn and a job at a Ford plant is a good thing you know? Not sure where that leaves American poor in Michigan who used to work at Ford, but it's been good for Mexico.