Racism in Mexico rears its ugly head

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You may know that Latin American nations were founded by “Criollos”, who as a matter of fact are white people descendants of Spaniards and other European nations, not by Native Americans or blacks. Colonial Mexico (New Spain) was already divided by a racist “sistema de castas”.

And since their Independence from Spain and Portugal, Latin American nations have been ruled by “Criollos” (with only a few exceptions), they also run major Latin American companies as well; they are the real soul, heart and engine of Latin America, while Mestizos and Native peoples occupying the lower levels of their society.

I have been in many Latin American countries, and as a matter of fact I'm an expert on Latin American affairs. I know even about Mexican comedy, and I know that is a very different style from American Comedy. Mexican Comedy is more of the British Style, with characters that present exaggerated behavior and physical features. People in the United States that may feel offended should know that in the first place, that shows are not intended to be seen by American audiences. Shows of the same kind are regular in many other countries, and in a lesser degree now in the British Isles. Most of these countries haven’t lived under serious racial tensions, so people don’t really consider that kind of shows to be offensive from one racial group to another.

In the USA we live under a “POLITICALLY CORRECTNESS” shield. We ask ourselves (or sometimes we ask someone else) if certain issue or comment is “politically correct”. If we have any little doubt about something, anything, we tend to eliminate the dialogue, or text, or whatever, but we don’t want to take any risk that may mean the end of our career as a writer, actor, director, news presenter, etc. And we don’t want people pointing us as ignorant racists. But the difference is that we have certain things in our past that have taken us to this situation. Black people (or African Americans if I’m “politically correct”) don’t need us to remember them that they arrived to this continent as slaves. They don’t like to remember that we were their white masters (although that happened at least 150 years ago). Sometimes even to remember that may be considered dangerous. All this racial tensions in our history, but especially with the segregation in the XX century and all the ingredients within (MLK, LA riots, KKK…) conducted our nation to live in fear about race talks. This is a 100% American affair.

The problem comes when we include other nations (and we tend to do that often) in our judgment. But there is no other nation in the world with the particular history of the United States. European nations have their own affairs, as well as Australia and South Africa and also Latin America. Our history belongs to us only. The fact that we want other nations to follow our “political correctness” is wrong. And we always want other countries to do things exactly the way we do. This is incorrect.

A person like you judging out other nations based on American standards is just ridiculous. This brings hate to other countries as ignorance is spread. And of course is a deviation of reality, as people reacts comfortably: “well, you say we are racist, you should see Mexican TV to found out what real racism is”.
You may want to educate yourself and learn about other nations before exposing yourself as a real ignorant.

How much can you embarrass yourself?