{"id":371,"date":"2006-11-02T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2006-11-02T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T00:02:32","slug":"el-presidente-fox-of-mexico-we-are-already-a-step-ahead-having-been-born-in-mexico-imagine-being-born-in-the-united-states-oof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/el-presidente-fox-of-mexico-we-are-already-a-step-ahead-having-been-born-in-mexico-imagine-being-born-in-the-united-states-oof\/","title":{"rendered":"El Presidente Fox of Mexico&#8221; &#8220;We are already a step ahead, having been born in Mexico. Imagine being born in the United States, oof!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm&#8230;..let me know if El Presidente Fox sounds somewhat insensitve, hurtful, xenophobic or [gulp] &#8230;nationalistic to you here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexico&#8217;s love-hate relationship with the U.S.<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident Fox&#8217;s comments reflect disdain for culture of nation many rely on economically<\/p>\n<p>By DANE SCHILLER<br \/>\nSan Antonio Express-news<br \/>\nNovember 2, 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEXICO CITY \u2014 When President Vicente Fox said Mexicans should be glad they weren&#8217;t born in the United States, it was a reminder of an ugly little truth.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>Aside from the U.S. economy, many Mexican citizens \u2014 especially those living in Mexico \u2014 don&#8217;t care much for the United States.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>&#8220;We are already a step ahead, having been born in Mexico. Imagine being born in the United States, oof!&#8221; Fox said Tuesday with a chuckle, according to the Associated Press, after a remark that Mexicans should be thankful for their heritage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The comment, made at a public event while Fox visited the central state of San Luis Potosi, raised some eyebrows in the United States, but went all but unnoticed in Mexico.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That is because although millions of Mexicans risk their lives to sneak into the United States as illegal immigrants each year, many see U.S. society and politics as troubled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe that is why they are trying their best to <a href=\"http:\/\/lonewacko.com\/images\/mexican-flag-independence-mall.jpg\">change the U.S. into an image of that paradise to our south?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read the rest here, but this is my favorite quote, which I think reflects the real attitude of those seeking a &#8220;path to citizenship&#8221; while they look for a better life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMexicans still point with anger to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, under which Mexico signed away about half of its territory, including what would become <a href=\"http:\/\/studentorgs.utexas.edu\/mecha\/archive\/plan.html\">Texas, California and other U.S. states..<\/a>.Among the most popular sayings regarding Mexico&#8217;s perception of the U.S. is one credited to Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, removed from power by the 1910 Mexican Revolution: &#8220;Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uhh&#8230;yeah, lets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Toward-North-American-Community-Lessons\/dp\/0881323284\">open the borders<\/a>, that will solve the problem. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm&#8230;..let me know if El Presidente Fox sounds somewhat insensitve, hurtful, xenophobic or [gulp] &#8230;nationalistic to you here. Mexico&#8217;s love-hate relationship with the U.S. President Fox&#8217;s comments reflect disdain for culture of nation many rely on economically By DANE SCHILLER San Antonio Express-news November 2, 2006 MEXICO CITY \u2014 When President Vicente Fox said Mexicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}