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Being as I am a creature of little judgement and less discrimination, I have friends both woke and White Nationalist. These being hypergolic, I have to keep them separated so they don’t leave each other’s body parts on my rug. Like most Americans, both have odd and, usually, badly inaccurate notions of Mexico, the White Nationalists being wrong as a matter of doctrine and the woke because of mild lunacy. On the eccentric principle that perhaps people should know a bit about a neighboring country, I offer the following somewhat chaotic thoughts.
I should note that I have lived in Mexico for over 20 years with Violeta, my Mexican wife, a half-hour south of Guadalajara in west central Mexico. We speak Spanish in the home. I being a retired news weasel (most recently for the Washington Times) and she a weaselette, or maybe weaseless, by inclination, we follow the news both national and international, and travel often in Mexico. In short, we have a pretty good handle on the country.
The Mexico we live in bears faint resemblance to descriptions on American sites. No, I do not support open borders, which are a bad idea. Yet, since the immigrants are unlikely to go away, an idea of what they are and of what they are able might be of use.
Let me begin by asking readers a few questions, which we will answer shortly.
What is the rate of literacy in Mexico?
What is the total number of births per woman?
What proportion of the population speaks Spanish?
What proportion of the Congress are women?
How many of the two presidential candidates are women?
Let’s clear up some common misunderstandings found on racially truculent sites. I have repeatedly seen it said that Mexicans throw trash and garbage everywhere. In Mexico they do not, as anyone could tell by Googling several Mexican cities, clicking on images, and looking for the trash. I have been to more Mexican cities than a Congressman has brain cells — okay, that would be about three cities, but I have been to dozens and seen no trash.
An American woman once asked me, “Does Mexico, like, have paved roads?” Annoyed, I said that no, Mexico does not have paved roads. All Mexicans sit asleep at the bottom of a big cactus, with a sombrero and a burro. Why would they need paved roads? Actually, roads vary from broken up and essentially abandoned in the vast, empty northern deserts to splendid four-lane highways with most being at least reasonably good.
I have read on a racial site of Latinos on Staten Island leaving their children in filthy diapers while going out to seek drugs. Perhaps on Staten Island. I couldn’t check, and doubt that anyone did. Not here. Mexicans like their kids. You can see young couples walking along the boardwalk with both tads, maybe three and five, holding them by the hands. They actually like them.
Gringos in the north of the continent often seem to think that Mexican doctors cure diseases by sacrificing chickens, perhaps holding a goat in reserve for difficult cases. This is as silly an idea as I have heard, and I have lived in Washington. Of my own experience, I have had eye surgery in Guad on three occasions, my ophthalmologist teaching at the University of Guadalajara and routinely doing corneal transplants, both descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) and penetrating keratoplasty (PK). I just underwent a cardiac angiogram by high-resolution computerized tomography, and there was no goat or even a chicken.
Daily life in what some call a Third World Hellhole: The other day we cranked up the CR-V to take it to the Honda agency to feed it fresh oil and have filters and suchlike parts of its anatomy reinvigorated. The agency is exactly like a Honda agency in Berlin or Chengdu: all plate glass and shiny tiles, waiting room, bathrooms, competent techs, and boring, as an automotive agency should be. No trash.
Okay, we catch an Uber to El Chai del Carmen, a favorite restaurant some distance away. Guadalajara is big, some six million. It is full of large, glittering shopping malls as glorious as any in the United States. That is, it is like any big international city. El Chai has a substantial patio under its roof, in effect on the sidewalk except there is no sidewalk but a plaza. Food good, international, in the morning orange juice that has actually had the recent acquaintance of oranges, tables full, people chattering, an occasional ambulance shrieks by.
Here we come to an aspect of Guad and Mexico that is more easily sensed than described. It is European. Americans oftten think of Mexican culture as being alien, like that of Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, or Mongolia. It is not. It is as European as America. Just as north Europeans founded Canada and the US, southern Europeans founded Mexico. It has a European language, religion, and legal system (based on the Napoleonic Code). An Italian deposited on the grounds of the multitudinous churches would think he was at home. Mexican literature, except for place names, is indistinguishable from European. Churches are Catholic and are often very old because, being built of stone and masonry, they last. The music could be called southern European with Mexican characteristics. It could never be mistaken for, say, Arabic, Chinese, or Mongolian.
Which brings us back to El Chai. Here is the part hard to explain. In restaurants, bars, in the plazas and parks, in the streets, there is a . . . how to put it? . . . a Latin liveliness that is more Italian than Spanish and certainly not American. As you go northward in Europe above France and enter Nordic realms, colors fade, food becomes boring, while efficiency rises. Seville and Oslo are just different. I suspect that much of the distaste felt by Anglo-rooted Americans for immigrants is just the Anglo-Latin disjunction of Europe replicated across the Atlantic.
Back to questions. From the CIA World Factbook:
Literacy in Mexico: 95% (the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says 96%). Now Google “Functional Illiteracy in the United States.”
Total number of births per woman: 1.76. This seems to me low, but who can doubt the CIA? In any event, there is no population explosion.
Percentage of women in Congress: 50, give or take a couple of percent.
How many of the two candidates for President are female? Both. Whatever one thinks of this, it is not machismo.
Guad is a city of fountains, and of andadores: wide, paved expanses that are often patterned, with benches, statuary, trees, and zero cars, lined with restaurants and bars, none of them those damned American chains. People can sit inside or outside for coffee, wine, what have you, and small children can run free, as there is nothing to run them over. One such fountain shoots pulsed bursts of water high into the air. Whoever is in charge of such things can redirect the water pulses so they fall outside the catchment pool and children run shrieking through the downpour. Think Rome.
Organized crime in Mexico is as bad as you have heard and, I promise, much worse. It is godawful, and it is out of control. It is not street crime. Vi and I walk in the cities without concern, likewise in countless small towns. There is no danger here of being attacked and beaten by “teenagers,” pushed in front of trains, or carjacked, as there would likewise be none in the United States if there were no feral blacks. Some one to two million gringos live in Mexico by choice — numbers vary — which they would not if they thought it a hellhole.
Recently my stepdaughter Natalia, a clinical psychologist, visited Austin to see a friend and came back appalled. There were, she said, lots of people sleeping on the sidewalks. Further, she said, the houses were all exactly the same.
Mexico is heavily and increasingly middle class, much of this being what Americans would call lower middle class. In countries that I have seen the world over, this status engenders a sharp drop in crime, fertility, and anti-social behavior in general. Parents send their children to school and, when they can, to university. The narcos come chiefly from the underclass. (Middle class means roughly having a job, house, refrigerator, flat screen TV, and kids in school.)
Many in America will be surprised to learn that there are universities in Mexico. There are in Guadalajara, among others: la Universidad de Guadalajara, la Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, la Universidad Marista, and la Tecnológica de Monterrey (which has campuses in 31 cities). I could not find a comprehensive listing of Mexican universities in English, but this list is fairly clear, naming the parent university followed by campuses around the country. Note that there are lots.
In principle the American system — high school, four undergraduate years to learn basics and grow up, followed by grad school — is much superior to the Mexican, which is high school followed by med school, law school, or what have you. Today? I am not so sure. Standards in America have been so deeply enstupidated, and there is so much pure political crap in education, that I would prefer a Mexican schooling. A brief look at what this means:
Vi went through U. Guad as a literature major. An American undergrad major would include maybe five courses in lit — today of worthless writers, most likely. A Mexican lit major studies nothing but lit (and related things such as etymology and semiotics) for four years, leaving her in coursework terms with more than a Master’s but less than a PhD.
Perhaps off topic a bit: There is, between the Rio Bravo and Tierra del Fuego, a vast amount of writing, music, and art totally unknown to the north. Americans are notoriously anti-intellectual, poorly educated, and parochial. A pity. Among the political, there is also a tendency to deduce reality from doctrine. If I introduced a three-foot iguana as my wife, my woke friends would become inclusive and say that of course it is as intelligent as everybody else, and besides species is a social construct and doesn’t exist. My Racial Right friends would think the beast acceptable if I told them it was an American iguana of English descent, but would probably think green to be on the wrong side of the color line and favor albino iguanas.
A staple of hellhole theology is that Mexicans are of low intelligence. If this be true, it isn’t obvious here. The idea suffers from a deficiency of plausibility. Consider: Mexico is awash in banks, which have employees who sit at computers and manipulate exchange rates, intermediate banks, SWIFT codes, and the like. Somebody maintains the computers, somebody networks them in the bank, and wide-area network engineers link them to corporate, probably in Mexico City, where programmers maintain hardware and code on central computers. Others maintain big turbofans at the airlines, and the avionics, and run the instrument landing system. Others run the landline phones, the cell networks with all their towers and routers at various levels, and the medical magnetic resonance imaging machines and high-resolution computerized tomography equipment. It is not clear how this sort of thing, repeated across countless industries and technical specialties, is accomplished by a people allegedly two IQ points above American blacks, who do none of these things.
Apparently people read books, as there are at least 31 bookstores in Guad. I know because some website lists that many. The five I know are excellent, my favorite of these being of two large floors and covering everything from the pre-Socratics through biochemistry. In Spanish. Violeta is reading a vast book on Cataluñian syndicalism in Barcelona after the First World War. Somewhat acerbically, I suppose, I wonder how many Americans, including college grads, know what Cataluñian means, what syndicalism is, what ocean borders on Barcelona, or the dates of the war.
Americans are mostly against mass immigration, which is reasonable, but do not seem hostile to Mexicans, which is different. Vi and I have travelled much of the United States and, with one exception, have encountered only friendliness. Under the circumstances, that’s a lot of civility. At my fiftieth high-school reunion in rural King George County, Virginia, Vi was a great hit and ended up leading the girls in dancing.
Finally, a brief eruption into sociology. Mexico is said to be politically unstable. Given the power of the narcos and a level of corruption equal to that in America, this is plausible. On the other hand, I have been hearing this for 20 years, so perhaps the country is stably unstable.
It is, however, culturally stable. It is almost a monoculture, has a universal language, and is overwhelmingly Catholic while being devoid of friction with Protestant denominations. There is no color line but a racial blur that produces nothing resembling the racial hostilities in America. There is legal separation of church and state, but this does not mean, as in the US, an attempt to abolish Christianity. I don’t know how many really believe, but towns are happy to celebrate the days of their patron saints with splendid fiestas, belief or no.
By contrast, the United States is neither politically nor culturally stable, with no common culture, religion, or language, intense political division, powerful racial and ethnic divisions, and a collapsing economy.
That’s life in a Third World Hellhole.
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Thanks for this insightful article. It only makes sense that Mexico would share cultural similarities with Mediterranean Europe, which many anglophone Rightists, who have a strong tendency toward Nordicism, typically disdain as well.
I have encountered similar problems when describing India to Americans and Europeans, having lived there for five years. India doesn’t sound as pleasant as Mexico as you describe it, but it’s also not the way most Westerners imagine it to be, who think of it solely in terms of “Pajeet” stereotypes and headlines about rape. There are certainly troubling realities in India, but that side of it is hardly a complete picture of the country. Parts of Indian cities are indistinguishable from what you’d find in the US or Europe, apart from some obvious cultural differences. Some people can get angry when I tell them that their stereotypes are incorrect (or at least incomplete), which has always baffled me.
Thanks for straightening all that out. Seems to me feral blacks make all the difference.
Mexico is such a paradise that millions of Mexicans have sneaked over the US border in recent decades
Great observation. I was going to say the same thing. If Mexico is so great, why are they coming here? The Mexican tidal wave has been washing over So Cal for decades and it’s all down hill. Crime, tax evasion, drunkenness, public urination….it goes on and on.
Gee Fred, I hardly know what to say. Maybe we Anglos have a poor opinion of Mexico because they send all the human detritus up here. Not a day goes by that we don’t hear of rapists, child molesters, murderers, drug pushers and other pieces of filth that came across the border either legally or illegally. Sometimes they cross three or four times after being deported over and over. When the news story is accompanied by a photograph of the culprit, he invariably has that evil, sullen look of an arrogant mixed-race criminal.
Do you really wonder why we have a low opinion of a country that uses the United States as a garbage dump?
Amen to that.
Fred if you read this: It’s good for you because they sent their bad up here. How about truck drivers here illegally with no license to drive, no knowledge of English, ramming cars off the highway in Ohio — an event I got to be an unwilling witness to not so long ago? They aren’t plowing into you and making your roads hell because they save that for us.
Fred, what you see in Meh-HEE-ko is what the comfortable class sees in every country. We put up with it so you don’t have to.
C.E. Whiteoak: Gee Fred, I hardly know what to say. Maybe we Anglos have a poor opinion of Mexico because they send all the human detritus up here… Do you really wonder why we have a low opinion of a country that uses the United States as a garbage dump?
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I didn’t see the word Mestizo once in his piece or mention of the obvious biological fact that most Mexicans invading our living space cannot make White babies. Maybe he mentioned reconquistador or LaRaza and I missed it.
Fred and his loving Mexican wife likely hang out with many of those two million American expats he mentioned rather than with Mexico’s Third World detritus. I don’t blame them if they do.
Maybe Fred is a loony Moonie since he admits association with the <cough!> “extreme right-wing” Washington Times?
He is certainly no White nationalist. By his own admission he is ineligible for National Alliance membership. We like it that way.
What makes all the difference is having a stable supermajority sharing religion and culture, not under threat from thrusting minorities. Unaddressed in this piece is the extent to which Mexico’s class system is stratified by degree of Amerindian admixture. The few professional Mexicans I have known have been barely indistinguishable from Spaniards. Is it a more flexible version of the much older Indian racial caste system?
I have no doubt there are nice parts of Mexico because so many whites move there to retire, but I’ve also heard bad things about Mexico from natives. I knew a Mexican guy who was actually the boyfriend of a friend of mine, whose father was a well-established lawyer in northern Mexico. He claimed that there is no one in his circle, upper middle class, who has not had someone in their extended family kidnapped by the cartels. He said they’ll guesstimate what you can pay based on who you are, say 500,000, and if you pay it, you may see the person again or you may find them in a ditch. Why do so many Mexicans want to invade here if things are so great there?
Sounds like they’re not sending their best!
While on the highway in the interior, I was disheartened to see it covered in litter all the way. But on the next trip, I saw that it got cleaned up, which really cheered me up. The cities did seem fairly orderly, though without exception, the houses had burglar bars.
As for the border towns, they can be rather sketchy, but a lot has to do with how the economy was doing. I’m not planning any return trips to the border towns, as I’ve heard that cartel activity got nightmarish.
I didn’t know that Fred was such a cuck.
Fred always has a perspective that I can agree with or argue over, but I agreed with much of this if you count his generosity to his adopted country. I did visit Mexico City in 1985 with a girlfriend who had been there several times, and was quite a hispanophile. The city is actually very attractive and reminded me of American cities in the 50’s. People were neat, there was a sense of beauty we don’t have, and the architecture could be very handsome compared to our lack of any urban dignity. I also liked the food, and yes, fresh juice in juice bars, the social sense of the life on the streets. Mexicans don’t hide like Americans do. It’s the latin thing.
There were problems. The pollution was intense. My shirt collars were gray from smut. Trees were dying from lack of oxygen. There was no open violent crime, but also no real amount of blacks. Mexico was the only country where I was aware of being white. I detected no hostility, although on the subway (packed!!!) twice someone tried to pick my pocket, but I grabbed the wrist, and they quickly withdrew.
An interesting sideline: my girlfriend said because the subway was so packed, men liked to jerk off on women. I didn’t believe this, but one day, after we got off the car (PACKED!!!), she pointed to her skirt, and there was semen on it. True story.
Also, there were few anglos, and no blacks. Just never saw them. The Indian population was quite prevalent. Yes, the upper class is white. No question of that. Also noted on Mexican TV, it was always about whites. In news, stories, series, etc. The meztizo and Indians simply were ignored. In Mexico there isn’t the hypocrisy or smokescreen you see here. You know real fast who’s in charge.
I also agree with Fred that Latin America has a very unique literature we sadly ignore. My girl friend introduced me to it. There is a valid argument that Mexico sends its less desirable population here, but that only happens because our ruling class lets it happen; and that same ruling class seems to like them more than us white people. As for this, drugs, etc., Mexicans tell me “there wouldn’t be this problem if you gringos didn’t want it.”
And, as they also like to say, often with a smile, most of the border states belonged to them at one time, so why shouldn’t they take it back? In Mexico, La Raza is real, baby.
As for this, drugs, etc., Mexicans tell me “there wouldn’t be this problem if you gringos didn’t want it.”
The question is, which came first, the demand or the supply?
Fred’s assumption seems to be that Mexico is capable of maintaining a first-world civilization on its own. I seriously doubt that, but let’s cancel all the foreign aid and see what happens. On second thought, no let’s don’t. That would probably be an epic disaster.
I don’t know why it comes as any surprise that Americans think Mexico is horrible when we are constantly told that we can’t enforce our immigration laws because it is cruel and inhumane to send Mexicans back to Mexico. Is it a sh!thole or is not a sh!thole?
I noticed that too. If your sole experience of Mexico was watching Mexican TV, you’d think the place is all but lily White. On the other hand, if you watch British TV lately, you’d think Britain was a multiracial mudpie since the beginning of time.
As for Mexican irredentism, they conveniently forget that their “lost territories” were remote and sparsely populated at the time, and (with the exception of Texas which staged a revolution) they sold them to the USA long ago.
Nice sales ptich, Fred, but I would rather hear your take on the fact that Mexico willingly, knowingly facilitates the flow of toxic drugs, the trafficing of child sex slaves, and the invasion by tens of millions of hostile military-age non-White males, countless many of whom are violent criminals, from all corners of the planet into America.
Everybody knows there are nice areas of Latin America. That doesn’t change the fact that most of it is a dump, and the US is much better even with all of it’s problems.
The author made some very valid and refreshing points. After taking a week-long car trip through the state of Sonora I want to, very briefly, share some of my thoughts which immediately come to mind.
Trash is everywhere, driving in Mexico is Mad Max level, there are little, if any, zoning regulations, there’s a general state of decrepitude, and noise and air pollution are problems.
The food is superb, good beer (thx German immigrants!), nice ppl, a more salubrious take on work/life balance, more traditional/less-Jewed society and values, and no Congoid visages on advertisements (Heaven!).
Given what America has become and where it’s heading, Mexico looks even better in my eyes.
Sounds great
Then all of the ones here in the USA can all return to Mexico and enjoy their wonderful country
Somewhat derogatory towards Americans. Hm.
I have been to Mexico, and I have to be honest. Many of the areas I saw there were dumpy, but it wasn’t as bad as Colombia. Whether or not someone can be satisfied and comfortable in an environment can depend on what the person is accustomed to.
This article sort of reminds me of a reaction I got when I said, prior to leaving on a trip to Peru, that I would not be eating any Guinea pigs or rats while on the trip. I did not mean it to be rude; I was simply setting boundaries. lol. The reaction was, “what?! You think that’s what they/we all eat there all the time? That we don’t have nice restaurants?” Also, when I said I refused to stay in some Airbnbs in Mexico, I got a similar reaction. “What?! Like you think we don’t have running water or electricity?!” No, I would just feel more comfortable staying in a decent hotel with security. Based on what I’ve seen (and I’m not referring to the above article here), I think a lot of people down there, especially the not poor ones, have an inferiority complex and sometimes make themselves feel better by scoffing at Americans.
And this article mentions that most Americans are against mass immigration but are not hostile to Mexicans. I’m one American who is beyond disgusted by all the Mexican immigration, which has seriously degraded the US. We’re being swamped by these people. Do not want them here. Do not need them here. With all the wonderful things Mexico has to offer, such as those things described in this article, I think Mexicans ought to be extremely eager to go home and take advantage of it all. Sadly, many of the communities in the southwestern US now resemble dumpy Mexican cities with graffiti and ugliness everywhere. I don’t blame Americans for not imagining Mexico to be an extraordinarily desirable place to live, given the environments they’ve seen Mexicans recreate in the United States.
Anyway, I thank the author for sharing his perspective. I know that Mexico has a lot to be proud of. I would just rather that America stayed American and didn’t become more like Mexico.
This article was a pretty interesting read and while there are definitely nice parts of Mexico there’s a reason why we have 10s of millions of Mexicans in America.
The author and his wife both came from an upper middle class background so their experience of Mexico isn’t what the average Mexican experienced. Mexico still has a huge wealth disparity between their classes and the only reason why Mexicans aren’t worse off is because of the billions of American dollars Mexican immigrants send back.
When it comes to Mexican culture while there is a strong Southern European influence because of the Spanish Empire, the core of Mexican identity is still Native American Indian. Mexican culture is like an egg. The outer shell is Latin European/Mediterranean but the more you go deeper the more you see their true roots.
If you were to ask Mexicans or Mexican Americans if they identified more with Spanish people or the Aztecs & Mayans the majority would say the latter. At least that’s how it is here in the US. But even in Mexico many reject the Spanish influence. Which makes sense given their genetic makeup.
I think most White Nationalists are aware of this info. Most normie conservatives might be against Mexican immigration because of their Latin influence but then again they also think Jews are White and their greatest so they don’t have the bests instincts.
Whatever win this is supposed to be for white sovereignty will be eclipsed by a Jewess president in power.
There is a strong and growing middle class in Mexico along with the accompanying nice areas. Most of it is built off the good fortune of being next to the US. Mexico makes a lot of money from US expatiates, tourists and the off-shoring of the US manufacturing sector. I wonder how Mexico would do if the manufacturing moved back to the US and Americans stopped taking vacations there. Would the middle class still thrive?
Several responses to this tourist brochure for our neighbors to the south. First and foremost, who gives a shit what life and culture is like in Mexico? Mestizos are incompatible with our culture and with our way of life and they are invading our country (despite their own country apparently being something close to a paradise on earth). They don’t belong here and need to be removed. What life is like in their own country might be interesting from a historical or anthropological perspective, but it hardly detracts from any WN talking points regarding immigration.
Second, this paragraph is tacked on to the end of the article with zero analysis or thought behind it: “By contrast, the United States is neither politically nor culturally stable, with no common culture, religion, or language, intense political division, powerful racial and ethnic divisions, and a collapsing economy.” Gosh, I wonder why that might be. Might it be because Mexico doesn’t have another population invading it by the millions and imposing their own culture and values on their native population. Or perhaps it might have something to do with not having a large jewish population shoving the joys of diversity and race-mixing down the throats of the native population. It’s funny what can happen when a nation is not under constant attack.
Third, this quote: “Here we come to an aspect of Guad and Mexico that is more easily sensed than described. It is European. Americans often think of Mexican culture as being alien, like that of Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, or Mongolia. It is not. It is as European as America.” Yes, the mestizos who live in Mexico have benefited from the European culture that has been imposed on them (relatively unpolluted, unlike in America) for several centuries. The real question is, what is mestizo culture like without a European influence to piggy back off of? How were they living prior to 1519?
Fourth, the author doesn’t even mention that the ruling classes in Mexico tend to be lighter skinned individuals who are much more likely to be direct descendants of Spain or Portugal and not the mestizos who are invading the U.S. These are the people who drive the very culture that the author trots out as being superior to the 31 flavors culture that has been imposed on the U.S. (against the will of the majority, I might add).
Fifth, like many others have pointed out, if life in Mexico is such extreme bliss, why is their native population invading us in droves? This point remains unanswered by all the America-haters who write articles like this.
Lastly, “I should note that I have lived in Mexico for over 20 years with Violeta, my Mexican wife.” Why is this person even writing for CC? I would have assumed that, however decent a technician of words one might be, they would at least need to believe in WN or DR principles in order to be a writer here.
Excellent response. Having spent (too much) time living in Mexico, I can tell for a fact that Fred is full of a well known quantity known as bulls*&t. I lived in Mexico City and Guadalajara for several months each. Some nice areas, but the majority of those burgs were garbage tier, just like the majority of the inhabitants. Period. Fred can have Mexico and enjoy traipsing about the land as the out of touch know-it-all snob he undoutedly is.
I currently live in Los Angeles (not for long) and can say without a doubt that the Mestizos and Mezzo Americans that have flooded SoCal are the same trash I encountered in May-hee-co — and their “American” offspring retain too many of the negative (and very real) stereotypical traits one expects from the non-whites who inhabit all of Latin America and make it what it is.
I assume Fred is right, but, as others have said there’s a big difference between Mexicans that are 95% Spanish (i.e. European) and Mexicans that are 95% Amerindian or half Amerindian and half black. The ruling class and the educated, professional class in Mexico are almost lily white, but those aren’t the guys swimming the Rio Grande.
Lastly, “I should note that I have lived in Mexico for over 20 years with Violeta, my Mexican wife.” Why is this person even writing for CC? I would have assumed that, however decent a technician of words one might be, they would at least need to believe in WN or DR principles in order to be a writer here.
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Well put, Mr. Chance. Good question. Many Whites write well but very few are principled, uncompromising White racial nationalists. What is a DR principle?
Anecdote: With less than a month left in my military career, stationed at Fort Hood, Texas (changed to Fort Cavazos last year, after an “Hispanic” ugh!), I had a week’s vacation built up and decided to take it down in Acapulco, because I could. Mostly laid around on the beach while Mexicans brought me drinks and felt no more at home among the natives there than I had in SE Asia. I was ready to get back to the world but just happened to sit next to the celebrated drummer of the rock band The Who, Keith Moon, in a bar. I wasn’t much of a follower of rock music and had never heard of The Who — the Who? — but he and I hit it off for those brief moments in time and got good and plastered together, swapping lies. That’s the one lasting memory from my time in Mexico. The hard-charging Moon died a few years later from alcohol-related issues.
I hate to be negative, however this article is condescending and filled with straw men. I very much doubt the readers of this site believe that there are no universities in Mexico or that they do not care for their children. Furthermore, I doubt that many on our side have an irrational hatred of the Mexican people so much as a strong desire for them to return to their homeland.
I felt exactly the same way. It rubbed me the wrong way. But then I looked up other pieces the author has published, and it seems he often uses humor and writes in a lighthearted way at times and pokes fun and uses hyperbole. So that’s the spirit I take it in now that I know more about his style.
An interesting article for Counter-Currents. Rather than getting bent out of shape by Mr Reed’s soft-sell of life as an expatriate in Guadalajara, I would simply observe that one could write similar articles based on any number of cities around the world. They can be perfectly livable for the natives there, and even for expats who can adapt to the culture. I’ve been one of them.
Still, I found the author’s characterization of Mexico as European to be somewhat deceptive. It is only superficially so. The Spanish brought their language and religion with them to be sure, but relatively few women. Those who bore their <i>mestizo</i> children were indigenous, and their influence on Latin American culture is considerable and cannot be ignored.
Of course, the Spanish did not content themselves with just the indigenous, who had an unfortunate habit of succumbing to European and tropical diseases. Africans were also brought over in large numbers. So, to the <i>mestizos</i> were added <i>mulattos</i>, <i>zambos</i> and many others which made up the colonial <i>casta</i> system Wikipedia claims did not exist.
Perhaps much the cultural stability Mr Reed admires is a result of that system, which gave people a sense of place and belonging just as it does in India. It also allowed for social mobility, since one’s classification depended almost as much on lifestyle as it did genetics, which is true to this day. Still, the functioning of these societies greatly depends on the fraction of Europeans present.
Mexico is, perhaps, a smaller problem than the various other South American countries (Which certainly are not sending their best!), but it is still the source of a massive influx of invaders. Then, there are all the border-crossers from Haiti and other third-world hellholes around the globe, who routinely cross over from Mexico. I wonder why they don’t just stay in Mexico?? Duh.
Of course Mexico isn’t functionally different than, say for instance, Greece. A sad truth of globalism is that all places in the world are becoming more or less the same. Become too different and you’re branded a “rogue state”.
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