In trying to get a fuller grasp of Mexicos current political crisis as indicated in my preceding post, I came across this amazing piece by leading scholar and intellectual, Jorge G. Castañeda. This very well outlined analysis of Mexicos economy, culture, and society relative to the U.S. provides both an important context and cogent framework for coming to an understanding of the ferocious differences across our two countries that have explanatory power for what we both see and do not see happening in Mexico over time.uote from within: The key to that series, the single element that explains the opacity of Mexican society and politics to so many, is the simple but critical fact that Mexico is radically, substantively, ferociously different from the United States, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The mistake that many outside Mexico made was to believe that the highly perceptible differences of the past were superficial enough to be swept away by a modernizing leader and an apparently acquiescent population. After all, Castañeda states, Mexico profundo/ Deep Mexico is another reality. Along those lines, Guillermo Bonfil Batallas book, Mexico Profundo, is a pertinent and equally powerful read. It speaks to the historic subordination of Mexicos indigenous people and thusly, amounts to a colonization of the self. The role of memory in Mexico is big in a way that its not for us in the U.S. This makes Mexico a much more unpredictable country than the U.S. would like. -Angela
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:29:59 +0000
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