Is mexico alike to the united states?

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Charlie

I am an American living in Mexico. There are similarities in some ways between Mexico and the United States, but there are many more differences. In Mexico, the middle class is very small. There are many very rich people, and many very poor, and few in the middle. Many people live in great poverty, in tiny shack-like houses, with wood fires to cook on. I live in a tiny town near a large one. I am "middle class",...my neighbors on one side are very wealthy, but my neighbors on the other side live in a one room house with an outdoor "kitchen" and are very poor. In school, only 3 years are required. many children never go past the 3rd grade. Many families realize how important school is and send their kids thru high school. But poor families often do not. Families are very close and even if they are poor, they are happy. People are not in such a rush in Mexico like in the U.S...everything is slower. Most people are very hard-working, but pay here is much lower than in the U.S. Childrens clothing costs more here so it is hard for families to buy it. There are few welfare programs here to help the poor like there are in the U.S. Teenagers love their cell phones and many have them..and they love many kinds of music, including rap and many American songs. There are supermarkets, but not nearly as many as in the U.S. Most people shop in little neighborhood stores or big market places where all kinds of fresh foods are sold. There is very little frozen food or TV dinner type things in the stores as most people do not have a freezer...and also because people actually cook here...and do not use instant things. Real Mexican food is nothing like Mexican food in the U.S. A few things have the same names, but they are made totally differently. In the center of downtown in every city, big or small is a city park...this is the center of activity...it is always full of people and on weekends everyone goes there...there is music and activities for everyone in the park on Sat.and Sun. There are rock concerts too... with big stars from the U.S. and Europe as well as Mexico, but everyone who goes there dresses up and is VERY courteous and well-behaved. Parents ALWAYS accompany their children or a group of their children and a couple of friends to these concerts...kids never go alone. The music is wild and loud, but the kids are quiet and polite to everyone. Hope this helps you.

Roger C

I’m not sure where you are from, but you obviously have access to a computer and the Internet, so I assume you are not in a desert somewhere. You are probably in or near a town somewhere. Go to that town. Somewhere in that town you will find a rather large building, filled with things called “Books”. It is called a “Library”. Go into the “Library” and pick up a “Book”. Then read another “Book”. After a while you might find you can actually do some research on your own, and then when you get assigned a “Project”, you can do the work yourself. Then when you get a “Grade” for your “Project”, you will have earned that “Grade” yourself and you will perhaps someday get a “Diploma”. With that “Diploma”, you might then some day be able to get a “Job”.

SpicyStuff86

I guess it really depends on if you are talking about politically or culturally. If you are talking about politically then there are many similarities, for instance we are both governed by a democracy. But when you are talking about culturally, that is a complete difference. I think that the American culture clashes with the Mexican culture and that is the reason that some Americans have such a hard time accepting and understanding immigrants inside the United States. Of course this is only personal opinion, good luck on your project.

Mike A

Nothing a like.

lpaganus

The northern states of Mexico along the border are very Americanized. Check on the Internet for information on cross-culturalism.

Bags

Umm.....What do you mean exactly? Are you asking is the countries are similar? Maybe you should just do some research on the topic.

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From the dramatic increase in traffic across the border between the United States and Mexico, people have shaped lives and built institutions in transnational ways that challege traditional claims of both nation-states. These movements have "destabilize[d] fixed and unitary notions of community, culture, nationality, and indeed, of the territorial 'nation' itself," writes David G. Gutiérrez in “Migration, Emergent Ethnicity, and the ‘Third Space’: The Shifting Politics of Nationalism in Greater Mexico.” National governments seem increasingly unsure how to respond: whether to assert, abandon, or adapt their traditional attempts to assert values and allocate resources in nation-centered terms.
Challenges to the nation-state challenge history to its core. The modern practice of history developed two centuries ago to construct narratives about the fate of nations, to try to persuade people to interpret their lives in nation-centered terms. As recent changes have left nations less self-evidently necessary or desirable, and more fragile and constructed, we can ask questions that were unthinkable a generation ago about the practice of history.
To explore and rethink connections between history and the nation-state, the Journal of American History developed a special issue that centered on Mexico and the United States. Mexico was a natural choice. The volume of border crossings has accelerated dramatically, while the variety of those crossings has illuminated themes that interest historians from immigration to law, popular culture to politics, commerce to diplomacy. Those crossings have sparked ferocious conflicts that have ranged from the grass roots to the highest councils of state. And in the identities that people have constructed out of transnational experiences and the lenses through which scholars viewed those constructions, the United States-Mexican border has generated the paradigmatic perspective of the new field of "borderland studies" in which borders become sites not for dividing people into separate spheres and opposing identities (Catholic and Methodist, gay and straight) but sites for interaction between individuals from many backgrounds, sites for hybridization, creolization, and negotiation. Finally, we turned to Mexico because dramatic events in that country over the past three decades have generated wide-ranging conflicts about the meaning and possibilities of ideas at the center of nation and history: democracy, nationality, politics, and the rights of citizens and their relationship to the state. Indeed, Mexicans are exploring those issues with a freshness and clarity that are absent at this moment north of the border and thus can help Americans reinvigorate their own discussions. Amid this widening sense of crisis, with uncertain outcomes to these conflicts, historians have played an ever more central role in Mexican public life. In articles prepared for this special issue they present a fresh sense of what may be at stake in doing history amid transnational realities. The purposes and themes of the issue are developed in the Introduction. The titles and themes of the individual articles and interviews are listed in the Table of Contents. While words convey part of the story, we concluded that pictures also evoke the issues very well--and differently. And so we created "picture galleries" to illustrate conflicts and meanings generated by the border itself, activities the Mexican government has created in its Mexican Communities Abroad program to win and retain allegiance from its migrants; and crucial events that have led to this crisis in Mexico.

Mimi

nothing alike...mexico is a sad country to live in there you are either rich or poor...poor people work for like a hundred dollors every 15 days and that is that they work 8-10 hrs daily.
i think that life out there is hard nothing compared here i think that the U.S is the country who people have it made here...we have what we work for. in mexico they work so hard and have very little.

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