… many Americans want nothing to do with their neighbor.
That’s most decidedly untrue. Verily, everybody recognizes that Mexico is a rocket engine of innovation — technologically, politically, intellectually, socially, and artistically. When people think of Mexico, they think of how Mexicans have contributed so heavily to our world by discovering and developing so much of modern society. From the Theory of Evolution and discovery of plate tectonics to the exploration of Mars and the fleshing out of this little idea called a written constitution. From MRI machines to jazz and hip-hop to advanced city planning techniques and the assembly line, from the internet, genetics, and nearly every pharmaceutical worth taking to invention of the corporation, the pin-ball machine, and GPS, Mexico has been a civilization for the ages, one that every history book in the entire world will inevitably mention for millennia because it has been central to these innovations and more –- indeed, thousands more, if not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands (millions? billions?).
We ALL look to Mexico for leadership, respect her, and thank her for her contributions to modernity, because without her, we’d all be in a truly inferior, backwards state.
… two countries whose people can’t live without one another.
You’re absolutely right, Ruben. What would the world’s only superpower do without 100 million people living south of the border with 6th grade educations and a rapacious appetite to sponge off the efforts of others?
Yes, indeed, what would we EVER do without them …? Collapse into a quivering, gibbering mess, I’m certain ….
In fact, I feel the inklings of a gibbering quiver beginning right now …. (Help me Cesar Chavez, you’re my only hope … Ahhhhhhhh ….!!!)
