They’re Probably Just Angry That L.A. Doesn’t Have A Football Team
Why They Booed Her In Mexico (New York Times)
What is there to say as a reaction to an unsettling racist story? (Not to accuse the journalism as being racist, but to acknowledge that the topic is racial) One could deny the validity of the story. One could respond with similar racism. Or a person could try to bring understanding to the discussion, even when that seems to be an impossibly difficult task.
In any case, the linked story describes how Mexico, in a very strange and not-well-explained way, hates the United States. Apparently, we are so disliked by Mexicans that they heckle our beauty queens and taunt us in public by chanting for Osama bin Laden. This coming from a society that neighbors us but hasn’t always been neighborly. (Not that the USA has done a particularly great job of that over the years, either) I can’t neatly tie it in with the prior discussions here about immigration, because the strokes are too broad and the immigration issue involves many more societies and cultures other than Mexico, but I offer this: a culture that disdains us is providing most of the contention right now in the immigration debate, as they are practically the face of illegal residency. It might be reasoned that these people, the illegal Mexican residents here in the United States who claim to be mistreated and exploited, are implacable; that they really just don’t like us, and that there is no urgency for social justice at the moment; that we are being manipulated; and that our culture and legal system for handling immigration is adequate as it is, as it has been for years (and has been for virtually every other culture of American immigrants).
Rather than go through a big mess with an immigration amnesty law - something we obviously don’ t have a grip on at the moment - why don’t we instead deal with international relations first and foremost, the topic of the highest crisis? So that we have support from abroad, especially when dealing with 21st century rogues ranging from Putin (tough talking bogeyman, but generally benign) to Al Qaeda (extremely dangerous and aggressive)? Or at the very least so that when people move to this country or accept manufacturing jobs from American industry, they actually like us and they’re not just doing it for the money only?