[demlosers]

It appears many Mexicans have an inferiority complex link to their nationality in comparison to the U.S.

[katana]

200 years of being inferior will have that effect.

[LenS]

"Every time we play the United States it's like this. We have let them play us too often in friendlies, and now they know how to handle us."

That's a definite lack of self-confidence. Instead of thinking that Mexico knows how to handle the US thanks to all the friendlies, he doesn't believe in his team's ability to win except by surprise.

[VOA]

It appears many Mexicans have an inferiority complex link to their nationality
in comparison to the U.S.

All they have to do is watch the PBS special "The Mexican-American War" that ran a few years ago.

When less than 10,000 US soldiers land at Veracruz (with no opposition), burn their boats,
march up the same road that Cortez used, and manage to subdue not only the Mexican Army
on it's own turf, then hold a population of more than 500,000 in Mexico City in check
for months...
I'd have an inferiority complex too.

As far as I'm concerned, I suspect a lot of the Mexicans who come to El Norte
aren't just doing it for the dollars...they want to get in with the winning side.

(Except for the socialist-leech types that you see a lot in California and other
welfare states of the USA.)

[chimera]

It appears many Mexicans have an inferiority complex link to their nationality in comparison to the U.S.

They're so sad to lose to the U.S., yet for many of them coming here to live is their ultimate dream, and they keep flocking here in droves, some legally, many not.

My brother was in the Peace Corps in El Salvador and married a girl from down there. She was the envy of her friends and family because she was going to get a free pass to "Tierra del Oro", the Land of Gold. They thought she was going to live like royalty for the rest of her life, and, by comparison to those she left behind, she has. I wonder how many of our friends south of the border feel likewise?