Astorga and David A. Shirk Mexico and the United States: Confronting the Twenty-First Century This working paper is part of a project seeking to provide an up-to-date assessment of key issues in the U.S.-Mexican relationship‚ identify points of convergence and diver- gence in respective national interests‚ and analyze likely consequences of potential policy approaches. The project is co-sponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (San Diego)‚ the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson
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American relations with Mexico. From the early 20th century with railroads and mines to post NAFTA‚ a cycle of displacement has become embedded into U.S.-Mexico relations. Throughout the readings of the class and the short documentaries we’ve watched‚ it is apparent that the Mexican American community has been a chief source of the expansion of America. The first major uprooting of Mexican labor began at the onset of the 20th century when the U.S. built railroads into Mexico. The U.S. had become an
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Mexican Political Culture As once put by Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz‚ Mexico is a land of “super-imposed pasts” (McCormick‚ p.326). It continues to be and is seen as a melding pot of its European and Native American ideas about society‚ law and government. Its history has had a major influence on the political culture of Mexico‚ seen through years of revolution‚ violence and corruption. Mexico is a considered a new democracy‚ but there is a tension still seen between democracy and authoritarianism
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the United States from Mexico. They sought for a brighter and better future for us and fought tooth and nail to give us the world they didn’t have growing up. Ever since I had stepped foot on U.S soil I never had the chance to go back. The sacrifices that permitted me to be able to attend school for free and giving me a better head start than I would’ve had if we’d stayed couldn’t mask the effects of the move. I didn’t grow up being enriched by the colorful culture that Mexico has‚ I missed out on
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Migration cASE STUDY Introduction Migration is the movement of people from one area to another‚ be it across the road‚ or to the other side of the earth. Everyday over 2000 Mexicans try and cross the 2000km border that spans between Mexico and the USA. The immigrants walk for miles to try and illegally enter the country and for many it is a wasted journey as they are returned shortly after by the US border patrol police. The immigrants usually travel in groups of 10 and up‚ friends
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Education: To Fail or Not to Fail The education system in New Mexico is slowly crumbling. The students of New Mexico are losing interest in gaining wisdom and knowledge‚ they are also slowly losing their desire to succeed and being ambitious is slim to none. Without the tools to create a fire of intellect‚ students are sitting in darkness. The system is causing students to feel like failures when truly the system is failing. It is said that Rome was not built in a day‚ but it was not destroyed
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begin with‚ Webster acknowledges that an information society can be understood with different definitions: Technological‚ economic‚ occupational‚ spatial and cultural. Every one of this proves how Mexico is not fit to be called an information society. In the case of the technological approach‚ Mexico falls short to provide most of its citizens has access to the latest information technologies or that Mexican society has experienced a structural impact due to technologic innovations. Poverty‚ exclusion
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Cultural genocide exists in Mexico‚ and I am not referring to the McDonalds that has taken over the local taco vender‚ or even Starbucks - now on practically every corner- engulfing the national coffee brand; I am referring to the institutional‚ societal and scholarly misrepresentation of the African presence in Mexico. The presence of the “negro” in Mexico is itself an enigma not only for the Mexican population in general‚ but also - and more specifically - for the black Mexicans themselves. A country
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It took New Mexico more than half a century to shed its territorial status and become a state. New Mexico’s citizens first attempted to gain statehood in 1850‚ when local officials drafted a state constitution which was overwhelmingly approved by voters. A legislature and executive officials were elected. That same summer‚ however‚ this statehood plan was nullified when Congress passed the Compromise Bill of 1850 which granted New Mexico territorial status. Other attempts to develop and implement
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have been a cancer that has grown through out Mexico. Influenced by Colombian cartels‚ such as the Pablo Escobar’s Medellin and the Cali Cartel. In 2008‚ over 5‚600 people were killed in Mexico; many were torture/or beheaded (Hixson‚ 2009). It has stretched from the border town of Tijuana all the way to the beaches of Cancun. Many people have been robbed‚ tortured‚ kidnapped‚ injured‚ and murdered through out the domestic drug war that is going on in Mexico. Police officers have been known to take bribes
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