Whose corruption do Mexicans flee? Is corruption like Godzilla, a magical beast that is chained in the middle of Tlatelolco and the only way to avoid it is to run away?
To those who can, I highly recommend reading Fabricación by Ricardo Raphael or Salvar el fuego by Guillermo Arriaga. That is Mexico as narrated by the most talented Mexicans. That is most certainly the culture. It’s wonderful in many ways. And it’s also extremely dysfunctional in others.
Good parents try to give their children the best possible lives they can. When choosing between their children having decent lives in another country and improving the country of their birth through their children, they pick the first option. You would consider people who choose the second option bad parents, for the same reason you’re not improving the educational experience of children in public schools by having your daughter among them.
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Are people even reading the comments? Haven’t I posted earlier today about MS-13 and Barrio 18, gangs created by kids from El Salvador whose parents tried “to give them a better life” in LA?
Do you know how many abandoned children have been created by the open Southern border of the US? Do you know how many of them joined gangs? Were raped? Trafficked?
The argument that mass migration is “good for the children” is so atrociously cruel that I don’t even know how to react.
Pick up literally any book on the Central American gang culture and you’ll very soon discover the price that several generations of kids in those countries paid so that some rich fucks in Cali can have cheap illegal maids.
Not specifically related to Mexico, but this commentary on latin american food by BAP is so fucking funny.
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It’s time to retire the term “systemic.” People use it as a magical incantation in the hope that it short-circuits their interlocuters’ brains so they can win the argument on the spot. It’s amazing how passionate they can be about their pet issues and simultaneously too lazy to come up with an actual argument to support their beliefs.
“Bro, it’s systemic, don’t you see?!!”
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Mexico is what happens when you have the worst parts of Spanish and indigenous culture mixed together, corruption, crime, racism and people who don’t trust anyone outside their families and think everyone else are suckers. Individual Mexicans are often nice people, but as a whole their culture sucks and a sucky culture produces a sucky government
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