@maxdancona,
maxdancona wrote:
I am supposed to respond to your silly video cherry picked from some anti-immigrant website with a video of some white guy yelling about Mexicans and giving a Nazi salute.
You can stick your head in the sand and deduce "reality" from your ideological tenets all you want, Max, but that won't tell you nuthin about what happening in the streets. And, of course, you don't want to know that. It might call your dogma into question. We wouldn't want that, now, would we?
Whether you want to believe it or not, anti-american sentiment among Mexicans is not some rare phenomenon. Even the far left wing Slate acknowledges that:
Slate wrote:The Return of Gringophobia--There’s a long tradition of anti-Americanism in Mexican politics. It’s making a comeback..
When Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto opened gasoline prices to market forces this January,...La Jornada, the country’s leading left-wing daily, reported on the protests one day by splashing its front page with a woman setting fire to Old Glory. The message: The gas hike is the fault of the gringos.
It makes sense in the context of what I call gringophobia, a strain of Mexican nationalism—at times muted, at other times pronounced—that views the United States and its citizens as objects of fear, disdain, and blame for the country’s ills.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a former mayor of Mexico City and a nationalist-populist stalwart of the left, tagged by the late academic George Grayson as a Mexican messiah. Known to disciples, detractors, and neutrals alike by his initials, AMLO, López Obrador made his first bid for president in 2006 and lost by less than 1 percentage point. Part of his allure owed to his opposition to U.S. influence.
AMLO’s anti-Americanism is not new. Time and again in Mexican history, gringophobia has been utilized for political gain. After 1910, when Mexico was plunged into a decade-long revolution that produced what was arguably the world’s first socialist constitution. It was now the left, much more than the right, that waved the banner of national sovereignty. And gringophobia evolved too, entering popular culture on a massive scale.
Folk ballads known as corridos began to mock Americans for their lack of manliness, their greed and cruelty, and their contempt for Mexican workers. One balladeer opined: “The gringo is very despicable, and our eternal enemy.
Some of the new sentiment was fostered by the state. School textbooks fingered U.S. greed as a cause of the Mexican–American War. Perennially short of cash, the state had limited options, but one thing it could easily do—to satisfy the constitution’s radical promises and to strengthen its tenuous hold—was to seize U.S. assets.
Per one estimate, foreigners—mostly Americans—had come to own 27 percent of Mexico’s surface area by 1910. Expropriations became the order of the day, the land typically redistributed among the peasant and rancher majority. And the policy reached a populist climax in 1938, with the seizure of the U.S.– and U.K.–owned oil companies. The president who made that jackpot-hitting call, Lázaro Cárdenas, remains the most popular figure in 20th-century Mexican history.
Cárdenas could pull off the oil seizure in great part thanks to Washington. Under Franklin Roosevelt, the United States had nurtured a Latin American Good Neighbor policy...Mexico entered World War II on the side of the Allies, despite popular misgivings, even incomprehension. In some small towns, radio listeners greeted the declaration of war with: “Viva México! Death to the Gringos!”
Afterward, good neighborly harmony came to be relegated in favor of Cold War anti-communism. Modern Mexico’s first civilian president, Miguel Alemán, was happy to sing the new tune.
. Matters came to a head in 1959, when Fidel Castro’s rebels rode into Havana and started imposing a state-directed economy. Leftists hailed the Cuban model as a reminder of abandoned ideals. Growing U.S. hostility to Castro only bolstered their case.
The most influential left-wing organ of the day, Política, was more specifically gringophobic... it said: “The greatest devil is blond.”... It contributed to an ever-more-shrill rhetorical struggle, echoed in the streets with student marches; chants of “Cuba sí, Yanquis no!”; and occasional killings. The battle polarized Mexico for years and inexorably arrived at a bloody outcome in October 1968.
Two key factors keep gringophobia in play. First, believing the worst of the United States remains an article of faith within some sectors of society, such as many faculty in the social sciences at the big public universities, along with media such as La Jornada and the popular, combative newsweekly Proceso.
Second, national opinion remains subject to huge mood swings. In 2003, following Bush’s invasion of Iraq, pollsters Latinobarómetro found that just 41 percent of Mexicans had a positive view of the United States, while 58 percent held a negative view.... Latinobarómetro last year found that 94 percent disliked Trump. With Trump in the Oval Office, Mexico may never have been as fertile a field for politicized gringophobia as it is today.
So far this year, López Obrador has been somewhat muted in his nationalism. California is “a refuge and blessing for immigrants,” he told a Los Angeles crowd. “Long live California!”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2017/05/what_the_history_of_mexican_anti_americanism_can_tell_us_about_the_trump.html
That aint "muted nationalism," eh? It's the recognition that California will soon be part of Mexico again.
Anyone who hates Trump is a friend of leftists. They would just as soon the whole U.S. government be turned over to Mexico as see Trump in office, I betcha.
