2. In most of the world, including Mexico, wealth IS often the product of corruption and manipulation.
I would say that, judging from attitudes, the Americans match the Mexicans, although the Mexicans are poor and ignorant enough to admit it.
I never characterized it as hostility. I said they exhibted an anti-American attitude and they do. They do every time I am there. If you’ve never seen it perhaps you need to visit Mexico more. Or, you can continue beleiving it doesn’t exist, though that won’t change the fact that it does.