A comprehensive study I did on the people of Nepal gave me enormous insight into the traditions and lifestyles of the East, placing the ancient Himalayan nation at the top of my list. Then Senegal's 2002 first round victory over the defending World Cup champion French team put and held them at my number one spot for a long time, but now this rich West African culture has been overtaken. Go home, Senegalese, my new favorite third-world nationality, only the third to hold the honor, is the proud people of Mexico. Over the last two weeks, between working alongside Jim's various hired crews, eating at La Carretta or El Jinete almost every day, and working our yardsale yesterday, I have had more contact and interaction with Mexican people than ever before, and I must say that they are, on the whole, the most delightful sort of people I can name. They are a festive and musical people, and are always celebrating something, and I have yet to meet a Mexican who was not pleasant and enjoyable company. Of course the temperament of each individual varies just as anyone's does, but overall the Mexicans seem to be a jovial lot.
So why does our country have such a big problem with them? Most of what I've seen from the general populus is simple bigotry and racism, stemming from a fear of something different. Citizens of this country have had this response every time there has been a pattern of immigration from anywhere, including the Irish and Germans at the close of the nineteenth century, as well as Southern Europeans 1920's. Later, a major immigration of Asians occured as war raged in Korea and Vietnam. As recently as the 1990's, another mass migration movement came out of Eastern Europe due to the internal political struggles in that region. Most recently, though, has been the steady rise in immigration from Mexico and Central America. A person is an American citizen if they are born on American soil, born to parents who are citizens, or go through the process to apply for citizenship, but citizenship does not, in the eyes of most Americans, make you an American. These days we generally don't make any distinction between the different white races, and don't think anything about most white people unless they speak a different language or have an accent, but a hundred years ago, an Irish or German was easily identified and descriminated against. Skin color and physical characteristics are the easiest markers for immigrants, but whoever is fresh of the boat at the time is going to be isolated from the rest of society. Especially if they are older, people will keep speaking the same language, keep practicing their culture, and probably live in communities of other people who do too. The longer a group of people is in America, the whiter they are, and once a new group starts to flood in, the group will become more American. What I mean is that it didn't take long for the Germans and Irish to be incorporated into the culture because they were more like the contemporary Anglican Americans than the olive-skinned Italians and Greeks who started to show up, both in culture and physical appearance. Even now, Italians and Greeks several generations American have maintained bloodlines and culture, and are readily identifiable as Southern Europeans, while the Irish and German blood was bred right into the Anglican American pool. Methinks religion has a lot to do with that, as Italian Catholicism and Greek Orthodox Christianity (the original Protestants) are still not considered American like WASPs, but that's a different post. Asians are still Asians, even if they are Americans, until there is enough racial mixing to make it disappear like the Northern European blood mixed into the Anglican, and you can still pick out an Eastern European even though we think of them as white or Jewish. But despite all these different kinds of people running around the various centers of immigratory concentration (the Southern Peidmont for Germans, the Appalachains for Scots and Irish, California for Asians, Northern urban areas for Italians, etc), the newest lot to come in always gets it worst, and right now that's Hispanics, most of whom cross the border from Mexico.
So besides letting history take its course and let Spain finally take the West like they should have in the sixteenth century, and/or wait for the next big wave to come in from another part of the world so the Mexicans won't bother us so much, I have a couple of solutions in mind for the problem of Mexican immigration. The biggest concern is always economic, and Americans are concerned that Mexican immigrants willing to take bad jobs and work for less are stealing jobs and money from Americans. But of course if they didn't take our jobs, we'd just give them to them while they're still in Mexico, just like we exploit the little Bangladeshi kids. Either way hiring an immigrant of any variety saves money for the fat white guy who owns the company, and if there's more immigrants for hire, then a lesser fat white guy can hire them, too, and then maybe even the skinny white guys can get a crew of immigrants and eventually every American will own a little piece of Mexico, and isn't that what you fat American capitalists worried about jobs wanted anyway? So what we need to look at is why they come over in the first place. It's because Mexico is a hole, and they're way better off trying to make it here. But immigration's not the problem. Emmigration is. We're not suffering by their coming here, but Mexico is hurting for a whole generation leaving the country.
So here's something for everybody: Invest in Mexico. You pinko Commie filths who want to spread the money around to people who don't earn it get to help a broke-ass country full of them, you fiscal empirialists get to essentially buy a country for cheap, and best of all, you ignorant bigot rednecks get the Mexicans out of your backyard.
Why it will work: The Mexicans are a proud people who love their country and rich heritage, and if they can stay at home at all, they will. So if you're a fat white guy, pour your money into Mexican investments and maybe you'll help fix the place up. Free trade is the answer, and yes all the jobs will go to Mexico for cheap, but it all comes back around in the macrosystem of the world economy and everybody wins. So invest in Mexico and build it up until they're just like us, then they'll have no reason to come up here and destroy their homeland, and even though they'll have money, we'll still control it since the businesses are all American-owned. Essentially Mexico will become a part of America, at least in regards to the flow of money, and the same policy will work in our economic investments all over the world. So to all you closed-system socialist punks who think NAFTA is killing the American economy and we ought to restrict trade with other countries in order to boost American business, take a lesson from history and learn that restricting trade and jacking up tariffs has never helped anybody at all in any country in any economic or political situation at any time in history, and it almost always leads to war.
(These are private business investments, mind you, like I've talked about before - not government-sponsered programs. The last thing both countries need is either government playing with tax-payers' money.)
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