[jqm]

Mexico is beautiful and amazing place with great food and wonderful people.

It does have problems, yes, the government for one, a culture of corruption, a "caste system" mentality, a lack of focus on community (which leads to awful habits like littering).

The media reports constantly show Mexico's problems, which to be fair it does have, but Mexico has come a long way in the last 25 or 30 years. The average standard of living has risen considerably. I would say the average citizen is more aware of the wider world outside their little community. That's just my experience.

[sigma2015]

> but Mexico has come a long way in the last 25 or 30 years.

Do you really think Mexico made progress during the past decades just b/c they have malls and fast internet? I guess any untouched indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest offers more original culture than what developed in Mexico during the past twenty years.

[pvaldes]

Two mexican nobel prizes (chemistry, literature) in the last 30 years. One for Brazil or Costa Rica.

And also one point for the indian tribes with Rigoberta Menchu in Guatemala (peace). Not bad, much better than Argentina, Colombia or Spain in the same time in fact.

Enough said.

[_nedR]

Curious about what you mean by'a "caste system" mentality'?