Explain something to me. Why do run-of-the mill Mexicans and for that matter all Latin Americans tolerate the corruption in their countries and the inability to ever have a middle class? My opinion of Mexico is that it is the most racist country on the planet. Ever watch a Mexican a TV show? All you will ever see are blond-haired, blue-eyed Spaniards. The indigenous people of that country, which I am pretty sure are the majority of the population, are destined to a life of poverty similar to the caste system of India.
It is true that Mexico is a Latino-White Latino society and yes discrimination does exist between the two.
And it is this demographic that keeps Mexico from developing a middle class of any note.
There are huge educational differences and cultural differences between the two groups. It’s not quite the same as South Africa was under Apartheid but there are similarities.
The White Latino group knows that to keep the the brown Latino group from going Commie on them like Castro, they make sure they know how to eat. The formula is rice-beans-corn. Most of the indigent Mexicans spend all their time trying to get their daily dose of that formula. A lot of other things they get is by charity and many go to the cities to earn that little extra that allows them to live in the country pretty damn well actually. A lot of maids, drivers, handy men that work in the cities and come from the indigent, they often hold down 2 or 3 jobs and send the pay home to family who live in nice tiled homes with kitchen appliances etc.
Then there is the God awful poverty in some parts of the country that seems to be permanent; definitely a lower caste of people. The Catholic Church tries to help a lot and they do a lot of good things. But it’s a situation that is unmanageable. Try to do something to change it and it only gets worse; very frustrating.
The demographics of Mexico, abbreviated:
About 120 million people
2 million affluent or wealthy
15 - 20 million middle to upper middle class
About a 100 million impoverished or lower middle class.
Values:
A lot of national pride; too much in my opinion as it’s not so well deserved. Family values high, Christian values should be higher. Homosexuality normalization underway (again copy catting the USA), strong actually very strong work ethic until they get tuckered out and then they disappear or flake out (siesta time).
Infrastructure:
Inproving but water and sewage treatment is still 3rd world. Good airports, good hotels, excellent restaurants, good banking (good enough), investment-forget it, too corrupt, rule of law is crap, it looks like there is a rule of law but it’s mostly symbolic and Napoleonic.
Your post rings absolutely true. Spain still effectively owns Mexico..