What’s the story with Mexico? Insights & observations

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Written By William Kaliher

Note to Readers: In properly translated “Quatrain Forty-Four,” Nostradamus foresees Kaliher cornering the world’s potato chip market.

What Are Mexicans?

The media constantly blurs the concept of Mexican, Central American, Latino, Mexican-American and South American with the politically correct, made-up word, Hispanic. That’s socialist media bull-crap only worthy of the New York Times and its media twins. Today we’re going for truth. Because of our biased media, many intelligent Americans don’t fully grasp the difference in Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. This article will focus on various types of Mexicans congregating in America. Remember the left devalues words and even tries to negate the meaning of American. For clarification see “Who are Americans“:

Mexico is a nation on our border still more feudal and socialist than democratic and capitalist. Illegal immigration, loans to rescue the Mexican economy, an unstable monetary system have been headlines in the past twenty years. Thousands of articles have addressed each subject. Sadly, virtually none have been about Mexico or the Mexican people. Adding to America’s confusion, even fewer have addressed the culture or Mexican government. I’ll do an inadequate job of outlining the situation, but will still be more informative than what the big media has presented.

Population

The United States has been moving from rural to urban for more than one hundred years. Today, we still suffer from that transition. The social constraints of village and small town life have been negated. The integrity of American neighborhoods has been systematically destroyed. The result is the wanton crime we now suffer and take for granted. The 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre shook the nation, while last week’s killing of five New Orleans teens was taken in stride.

Many business owners and corporations no longer ask what’s right, but how to make the most money using the lowest common denominator. This is most easily spotted on television shows that strive to lower the level of human decency. We have broken families, increasing juvenile delinquency, more law breaking and escalating crimes of extreme savagery. Children and old people are no longer the responsibility of the family (See Social Security: The Primary Socialist Curse for another take on SS.), but are shuffled off to state centers for care or education.

In Mexico, the shift from rural to urban has taken place in thirty years, not one hundred. Virtually every major city in the country has tripled in population since 1970. The rules of neighborhood and village life still apply, but only tenuously. Those strained threads holding the cultural fabric in Mexico completely fray and unravel when those same individuals enter our society and lose all their cultural links.

Mexican-Americans

Only two types of Mexicans should concern Americans. Both are Mexican-Americans. They are Americans just as Irish-Americans, Afro-Americans and Italian-Americans are Americans. They aren’t Mexican, African, Irish or Italian any more. By a large majority, Americans of Mexican descent are like Americans of French, German or Japanese decent. They love the United States. They’re liberal and conservative, religious and non-religious, but they’re as American as someone whose ancestors were German, Norwegian or Chinese.

Unfortunately, among Mexican-Americans, like too many Anglo-Americans, some have become anti-American traitors. Among those are Mexican-Americans who’ve been captured by politically correct liberalism. These propagandized dupes have been installed by socialist forces and have teaching positions. They’re the Mexican-American equivalent of Ward Churchill, untalented, ego-deficient whiners leeching off the public payroll.

The media doesn’t promote mainstream patriotic Mexican-Americans as spokesmen. Instead, the media sponsors the Latino versions of Jesse Jackson and H. Rap Brown to speak for all Mexican-Americans. In the socialist drive to Balkanize the United States, these weirdoes are presented as if only they had valid opinions. The worst of these “media-selected” anti-American spokesmen want a separate nation, filled with the corruption of Mexico itself.

Mexicans

The idea is difficult for Americans to grasp, but there is no such thing as Mexicans in the sense we understand citizenship. Mexico is much more regional. “Mexico” means Mexico City more than the nation. There is really only a clear Mexican identity in comparison to the United States. Regionalism, race, cultures and class clash with what we’d consider national loyalty.

Within the United States of Mexico are a wide variety of people and a social stratification unknown in America. The ruling elite are for the most part, “white.” It’s not an accident the current Mexican President’s name, Vincent(e) Fox, wouldn’t stand out in a Des Moines telephone directory. Ross Perot and former Senator Jesse Helms told the truth about Mexico’s government and ruling families and were condemned by the socialist media. I don’t know what the average bleeding-heart liberal is going to do when he figures out his own media covered up for this elite, white-run nation.

The leftist dupe should realize these “white-European” Mexican political ideas did not spring from the same well of individual rights the evil, slave-owning, white, American Founders used to develop our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The pool of political thinking available for them was actually far worse and closer to the current European Union model. The result is state rules and a stratified society. As an American, I’m not bound by these sensibilities and can visit among the poorest, most abject populations or within any social strata up to the wealthiest.

I’m always uneasy around the richest Mexicans. Often an arrogance of superior birth simmers just below the surface. Civil rights, human rights and equality are surface words in Spanish without any root to provide a depth of meaning. There’s no way I can look at poorer people (see Legitimacy Dictates English ) as they do. The lower classes are not expendable or of less value than me. I must admit the American ideal of equality and civil rights are impacting some of the most powerful Mexicans. Verbally, at least, such ideals are sometimes acknowledged. Still, it’s not part of the fabric of their soul and I’m left wondering, if I were to cross such a person, would they have any qualms about having me assassinated?

I’ve visited Mexico often during the past forty years and watched the urbanization and economic changes. Given the improvement in highways and increase in automobiles, it can be difficult to put Mexico in perspective. Before the 1980s, one could accurately describe Mexico as a feudal society. Only the very wealthy owned cars. They were priced three times higher than in America. An elderly Mexican friend describes that period as “a time of burros.” It’s an accurate description. A remote village of ninety-families in the state of Jalisco had one pick-up truck in 1970. Today, that same village boasts 73 pick-up trucks. Only thirty-plus years ago refrigeration was hardly known. A small American convenience store would have been considered a giant store with an unimagined selection of goods.

Modernization

With the growth of television, a swelling population and workers coming to the United States, average Mexicans subconsciously realized they were being shortchanged. Mexicans have a self-depreciating joke among themselves, “Mexico would be a rich nation if no Mexicans lived in the country.” The irony reflects that the average citizen knows how rich his country actually is. Despite the feudal society, pressure started hitting the super-rich Mexican rulers. For a thumbnail history of Mexico see: “The Reconquistas

Following are my observations: Experts on Mexico can refine my thoughts but not negate them. Our media has made us aware of the twelve to thirty ruling Mexican families. They represent the apex of the social stratification and racial breakdown of Mexico. Below these super-powerful families are the “top” bureaucrats who run the country. Their pay would make American government workers envious. Below that top echelon are regular government workers who make a fraction of what the same duties pay here. This heavy government bureaucracy is throughout Mexico and barely pays sustainable wages. Ten years ago, the equivalent of one of our park rangers was earning eight dollars a day.

This public bureaucracy, with its subsistence salaries, is one of the cheapest ways to control the Mexican population. It allows some of the pressure for cultural improvements to escape without exploding. Among this needless bureaucracy are several types of police forces. These levels of low wage police allow political control while providing “responsibility” if not “respectability” to many people. Beyond this framework are farm workers and small businesses in the cities and towns.

Perhaps the one complication to the elite’s total control of Mexico is the impact of major Mexican/American/international corporations. Currently, with an asterisk for Wal-Mart, these corporations are functioning to enhance the elite’s control and profit making from the national resources. The worker’s pay is usually a bit higher than in most of society, but is set by the corporations/government and not by the capitalistic concept of supply and demand. As long as the living wages throughout the country can be kept artificially low, the corporate-produced jobs will be taken by paying just a few cents an hour more.

Wal-Mart may be the Trojan horse that ultimately defeats the elite. Fifteen years ago, I talked with the manager of a small firm in Guadalajara. They had an order from Japan sitting at the port of Mazatlan. The shipment sat for six months until a worker traveled there, paid a few bribes to get the merchandise approved and forwarded to Guadalajara. Wal-Mart could not function under such conditions, so improvements in moving goods had to be allowed if it was to enter Mexico. The Mexican people love Wal-Mart. The company could only wish it was as popular in the United States. The impact has led to an improvement in shipping goods within Mexico as smaller businesses try to keep up. I’ve no doubt the elite make plenty from Wal-Mart in Mexico and use it as a cash funnel; but the average Mexican gains in choices, cheaper goods and unintended consequences; such as improved shipping.

The grandest Mexican super-rich scheme to keep the population poor and rake in every penny is Mexican tourism. American and European tourists are steered into enclaves especially designed for foreigners. The rich control the hotels, restaurants and shops and take virtually every cent the tourist leaves. This money has little impact on the average Mexican beyond those working at the hotels, shops and restaurants.

We know the balance of payments and the weak Mexican economy from our news sources. However, neither our government nor the media ever asks why the twenty billion dollars sent to Mexico by illegals is the second largest source of foreign exchange for the nation (after oil exports) or if that is reasonable? From this picture we can determine several facts. Most of the income from oil is not being used for the average citizen. Tourist dollars are not impacting the average citizen. Only remittances sent to Mexico, by mainly illegals, is reaching regular families and stimulating some economic activity in villages and towns.

Our government claims they don’t want illegals—it’s such a joke Bush doesn’t even bother to wink when jabbering about how seriously he takes the problem. Mexico also claims they’d like to improve their economic situation. If we examine the border entry points, it’s obvious both governments are lying. Mexico is a beautiful, historically rich, glorious country, populated by a wonderful people. However, everything at the border is designed to discourage the tourist from traveling beyond the border town. There are no signs in English and nothing planned to quickly speed the American visitor into a tour of Mexico. The atmosphere is so discouraging many Americans decide not to enter Mexico proper at the border. Even for someone familiar with Mexico, the entry requires fully half a day.

If the two countries wanted to increase jobs in Mexico and help the economy, entering Mexico would be almost as easy as entering Disneyland. The tourist who spends two thousand dollars for a week in Cancun may have twenty or thirty of those dollars work their way into the general Mexican society. The tourist that drives across the border and spends the same two thousand dollars has all his money, less the cost of gasoline, positively impact and improve the general economy.

The Cancun International Airport website indicates they handle millions of visitors to the Mayan Riviera per year. Guess what? There is no problem with entry. For profits it’s virtually as easy as walking into Disneyland. The elite have their sheep and want to sheer them of every bit of fleece possible. If only one million of those Cancun visitors drove into Mexico, it would translate into two billion dollars being spent to stimulate Mexico instead of fattening the pocketbook of the few. Can you imagine how many illegals would have stayed in Mexico if that tourism money were impacting their economy?

The Political/Cultural Reality

In addition to this quick overview of the Mexican economy, the government must be examined a bit more. In many ways, the federal government of Mexico would seem stronger than ours. However, that is only superficially true. There is no Mexico as there is an America. Culturally, economically and even linguistically, the state of Chiapas is much more different from Sonora than Alaska is to Florida. Subsequently state Governors and local police chiefs can wield more power than is the case in the United States.

Returning to the people, the super-powerful families, the top bureaucrats, the regular government workers, small businesses and the people they employ have been noted. Next, would be the general laborers and farm or ranch workers. Below that level of society, would be various Indians and Meztizos who, if not making up the working farm hands, exist on subsistence farming.

Once we’ve grasped these basic levels of society, government and the economy, the further stratification of the culture must be examined. Remember the American or European visitor can interact with every level of society easier than any native-born Mexicans. Mexico’s aristocracy and multiple levels of society have resulted in a caste system where people don’t interact as equals.

I once listened to a young Mexican businessman, who had never visited America, complain about racism in the United States. He wasn’t buying my argument that our racism was negligible compared to Mexican racism. I challenged him to join me at a good restaurant with the village girls who worked for him. It was unthinkable that he might be seen in a good restaurant eating with uneducated farm girls, and he refused. He could only oversee the “sub-humans” working for him. Unfortunately, I fear the comparison didn’t sink in. He’ll never realize he was further removed from his serfs than an old time plantation owner was from his slaves.

Beyond the stratification of Mexican society based on money and birth, are the various races. Forget the leftist mumbo-jumbo of white, black and yellow. In this article, I’m actually addressing several of the multitudes of races that go far beyond the socialist-imposed, limited genetic scope liberals are allowed. (Liberals and public school products may want to look up the genetic, historical and linguistic studies on the Ainu, Basque and Laplanders to counteract their politically correct genetic indoctrination) In Mexico, after the white European rulers, is the mixture of Indian and European distributed among the society. Next, Mexico has a multitude of Indian races/tribes. Even today, one can find Indians who have never seen a white man. Linguistically and physically, many of these tribes are better termed races. Simple observation indicates the Maya (the inquisitive liberal may want to study the Mongolian spot or blue mark) and either of the two main tribes of Oaxaca are likely genetically more differentiated from a Totonac Indian than a Spaniard is from a German.

In Mexico, you are unlikely to find an Indian or average Mexican citizen from Veracruz marrying an Indian or average Mexican from Chiapas. Everyone in each state knows the rules and their place in society. The alien spouse or offspring would not be overly welcome in either state. However, it’s possible a man from Veracruz might marry a woman from Chiapas if they are illegally living in the United States. Here, they aren’t primarily members of their region, tribe or caste, but for the first time, Mexicans. The problem with such marriages is an increased difficulty for either person to comfortably return to Mexico, especially to rural areas.

Returning to Mexican-Americans we discover most have been important citizens of the United States since the states they live in joined the Union. That time period is often longer than many white or black Americans can claim. For many years, Mexican-American neighborhoods and towns were among America’s most stable. The people paid attention to their children and neighbors and bent a knee before God. Some of those Mexican neighborhoods and small towns can still be found throughout the Southwest. However, Mexican-Americans have also suffered the destruction of their neighborhoods and debasement of society the socialist left has inflicted on an unsuspecting American population over the past seventy-plus years.

This damage has been amplified in many Mexican-American communities as they absorb more illegals than most communities. The urbanization of America and the magnified urbanization of Mexico is compounded on our shores when Mexicans from Veracruz make unnatural unions with Mexicans from Oaxaca or another state.

These barely educated illegals have come from a rapidly changing society. Now, they’re linguistically isolated in America and among other Mexicans they have little in common with beyond language. These basically good, hardworking people are afloat without a cultural anchor. They have children they can’t afford and lack the time to raise and the cultural institutions, from church to village, to help civilize and educate their children properly are back in Mexico.

We can look at the gangs in Los Angeles and other cities and study the offspring of illegals from twenty and thirty years ago. Those children are predominately the gang members. They had no real cultural upbringing. They are a threat to all of America but especially to Mexican-American communities. Making matters worse for these communities and for the illegals struggling to be Americans and fit in are the race pimps leading the Reconquista movement. Those Mexican-Americans ignore the horrors these immigrants face and instead cry about their plight being whitey’s fault. Sadly, no media is addressing the facts that confront us and the illegal aliens in a manner that wouldn’t lead to their destruction and loss of humanity.

If America needs Mexican workers there are several steps that would aid Mexico and us. The solution is not allowing illegals to become citizens. That step just further destroys the humanity of many of the illegal entrants and dims any future prospects for their children. A program must be established so Mexican workers can enter the United States legally and in a controlled manner. If, for example, the hotel and restaurant industry on Cape Cod needed Mexican workers it would be more intelligent and compassionate to restrict the recruitment to say greater Guadalajara or specific villages in Jalisco. Those Mexicans working on Cape Cod would bring their common rules and values to the Cape. They would possess their own truly common culture within the greater American culture. There would be less crime from such workers than from illegals. If Paulo did something wrong on the Cape that information would get back to his home village. He would be far less inclined to embarrass himself or his fellows with a stupid act. However, that same Paulo mixed in with Mexicans from two dozen locales has far fewer cultural constraints. Until we recognize the positives and negatives of Mexico we’ll continue to avoid reality and fail both Mexico and America.


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