From: Octavio Rojas Diaz (orojas@data.net.mx)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 11:54:01 MST
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On 19/03/00, 10:35:41 a.m., "john grigg" <starman125@hotmail.com> wrote
regarding American Imperialism in response to Daniel Ust and Octavio
Rojas Diaz:
> Mexico is a very blessed land and you are very self-aware that many of
its
> problems have been brought on by itself. The old saying goes, "a
nation
> gets the government they deserve." This says a lot about both Mexico
and the
> United States for both good and bad.
I agree, however there have been several attempts over the history of
Mexico
to get a better government, but they've been squashed by the
government, or
they simply try to divide us so we don't work and cooperate together.
> In Latin America especially though, there tends to be a lack of
loyalty and
> common identity to bind together the populace in working together and
> mutually benefiting eachother. Is this a by-product of the class
> structures introduced by the initial European colonizers? Loyalty
only to
> one's own social class? This is becoming a real concern in the U.S.
Also.
Yes, that is a big problem here, poor people is resented and angry,
and rich
people just consider them an uneducated mob that deserve what they
want, and
obviously everybody is loyal only to their social groups, and the same
happens
in most of Latin America.
> I read in a recent issue of _The Futurist_ magazine about three
possible
> paths Mexico could take over the next few decades. One scenario was
very
> positive and encouraged economic growth and democracy, the other was
> business as usual and the last was a nosedive into economic and
political
> squalor. I hope you can read the article yourself at their website if
it is
> available.
I'd love to read the article, do you have the URL? I hope we are able
to walk
the path of economic growth and prosperity, and it is very probable
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