Why Isn't Mexico a Global Power?

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  • Mexico, at one point in its existence, was the largest new world power on Earth. But ultimately, ended up being bested by the United States. It's not too different from the US either, so why hasn't Mexico, or any Latin American nation been able to go global. Does it matter to Mexico? What was is the Mexican future?
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  • @Felixxxxxxxxx
    @Felixxxxxxxxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7231

    I live in Mexico and there are 2 main issues here and they go hand in hand. Corruption ,and violence. Corruption is such a bit part of society and that it what needs to improve in order for Mexico to improve

    • @HiimApe
      @HiimApe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      I bet more than half the people in the cartels are smart, It’d be pretty cool if they turned all the negative energy from greed and war they could probably help change the world. No way you could run massive drug empires being dumb. I pray Mexico comes out on top one day

    • @spark1018
      @spark1018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Agreed

    • @chilaquiloss1848
      @chilaquiloss1848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      As a Mexican I can confirm

    • @thejager9821
      @thejager9821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +469

      In Mexico there is a meme and it says "If you investigate some corruption case in the goverment you will wake up inside of a black bag in the morning"

    • @xytech7432
      @xytech7432 2 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      I disagree the 2 main problems are corruption and the cartels. Cartels lead to fear. Distrust, violence and a bad reputation. Corruption leads to the same problems accept it also lets cartels gain more power so the circle grows stronger

  • @sheniquagreaves5705
    @sheniquagreaves5705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11445

    So refreshing to see such a well informed video on Mexico and Latin America. Also really glad to see Mexico without its pre-packaged yellow filter.

    • @unreleasedost5230
      @unreleasedost5230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      hey beatiful

    • @7kevin11rodriguezcorrea4
      @7kevin11rodriguezcorrea4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      yellow fever?

    • @sheniquagreaves5705
      @sheniquagreaves5705 2 ปีที่แล้ว +606

      @@7kevin11rodriguezcorrea4 No, filter. In a lot of Hollywood movies the make everywhere in Mexico look yellow, really taking away from the beautiful multicoloured draw of the actual country.

    • @7kevin11rodriguezcorrea4
      @7kevin11rodriguezcorrea4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      @@sheniquagreaves5705 oh deserts and stuff

    • @5vosteryoutuber300
      @5vosteryoutuber300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@7kevin11rodriguezcorrea4 yes

  • @DarylSolis
    @DarylSolis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8564

    *I think we can all agree that ''Made in Mexico'' sounds a lot better than ''made in china''*

    • @casuallavaring
      @casuallavaring 2 ปีที่แล้ว +715

      The United States and Mexico will hopefully enjoy a much better relationship in the future as Mexico develops and the USA learns humility. The question is how long this will take

    • @jared2639
      @jared2639 2 ปีที่แล้ว +400

      Hope to see many more things "Hecho en Mexico" by 2050!
      I think it'd make for a safer and more peaceful world than the alternative.

    • @shaaravguha3760
      @shaaravguha3760 2 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      @@casuallavaring wdym when the US learns humility, that literally makes no sense...

    • @work90
      @work90 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@shaaravguha3760 yea I'm trying to understand that too🤣

    • @xeraphyx7903
      @xeraphyx7903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Why are you bringing China into this? I know that Chinese manufacturing doesn't have the best reputation, but it doesn't mean that Mexican manufacturing is much better. You even didn't even capitalize any of the words in "made in china". Can you please actually explain why "Made in Mexico" is better than "made in china" with actual facts?

  • @johnhernandez5938
    @johnhernandez5938 ปีที่แล้ว +2973

    Cartel presence in Mexico is no joke or stereotype. As a Latino who has lost family to cartel oppression I can tell you everyone who lives in Mexico is affected by the cartel’s oppressive rule and it is the first hurdle to the country realizing its potential.

    • @Roasty420
      @Roasty420 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      Facts! My father is from Hot Waters aka Aguascalientes and he came to America for a better life.
      Currently, we live in Texas and he has been here for 30+ years.
      With hard work and diligence anything can be accomplished.

    • @remowilliams7029
      @remowilliams7029 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@Roasty420 Well let me ask you something? On the real, I always here mexican folks say we can make it anywhere in the world. But that is far from truth in your own soil I wonder why? I here stuff like viva mexico cabrones, but what is there to be proud of besides culture? With such a resourceful and hard working people it would seem to me that it would be a country like the US or even Canada by now.

    • @lagchizferleonardo7464
      @lagchizferleonardo7464 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Ayuda estoy en una bolsa negra por investigar sobre la corrupción 💀💀

    • @2615jboy
      @2615jboy ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@remowilliams7029because our government has been flawed by design since it's inception, since it has always oppressed it's people. And ever since organized crime through drug cartels infected every corner of the country and the same governing body, it just made everything worse. It will take either heavy external influence or civil war to bring actual change, and the latter is unlikely since culturally we are very subordinate.
      It's no wonder it's every Mexicans dream to leave the country and live abroad.

    • @remowilliams7029
      @remowilliams7029 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@2615jboy Then your saying México is destined to never be a developed country and a society that will never flourish in it's native land? I guess I just can't understand why there is all this pride outside of México but not enough inside of México to bring about change? I'd like to know if all mexican nationals that have been living abroad, made their lives and fortunes thanks to any other country but their own, would they run to México to defend it against a foreign invader? Like Russia is doing to Ukraine? Without asking for military aid? Just wondering if any would sign up to take up arms and fight and die for their land while living and prospering outside of it?

  • @shibby7667
    @shibby7667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7598

    I'm ok if Mexico isn't a global power i would be ok if we just had a good economy and a stable nation

    • @ericktellez7632
      @ericktellez7632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +897

      Bro i would be okay if we decreased criminality and violence to a livable rate.

    • @generaltov.6911
      @generaltov.6911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +434

      I would be happy if we just stopped being a mess in terms of politics.

    • @loglogic7846
      @loglogic7846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +267

      I just want it to be safe enough so I can move back, hopefully so by the time I have enough money to buy a house

    • @scythee7775
      @scythee7775 2 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      they should export more tacos, would be global power already.

    • @vinny9868
      @vinny9868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      I wish the general quality of life for everyone becomes equal to, if not slightly better than the American one.

  • @benjaminr6153
    @benjaminr6153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6743

    I don’t think Mexicans care or want to be a “global power”. They just want a more prosperous and safe country.
    Mexico is a wonderful country that I really love. Shame it has the problems it does because the people there deserve better

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +389

      "I don’t think Mexicans care or want to be a “global power”. They just want a more prosperous and safe country."
      This is a paradox according to international relations.

    • @tedl2671
      @tedl2671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      @Justin Y. and because of that u can’t win an argument with us ;)

    • @ghrtfhfgdfnfg
      @ghrtfhfgdfnfg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Justin Y. ?

    • @nerkvititate
      @nerkvititate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      @Justin Y. no not Christianity In Mexico it’s Catholic my family here and in Mexico are manly Catholics bower theres small percentage of Christianity I guess however I think there’s a higher percentage of Atheists than Christianity

    • @silverstreaked1072
      @silverstreaked1072 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One kind of follows the other or at least they seem to be a package deal to some extent, so I think that is why it was framed that way in this video.

  • @bassicallyandre
    @bassicallyandre 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5701

    I was born in the US, but raised in Mexico until I was around 9.
    Political corruption and the cartels are why they've remained stagnant.
    It's a shame cause I would love to make my second home down there.

    • @musk-eteer9898
      @musk-eteer9898 2 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      a lot of people feel the same way

    • @TheHatMan69
      @TheHatMan69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +298

      My girlfriend is similar to you but lived in Mexico until she was 17/18. She has so many stories about general violence, violence against women, corruption, cartels, and the broken education system. Her family tells us weekly that things keep getting worse... 😭

    • @SuperEagles97
      @SuperEagles97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Dude are you me!? Born in US, raised in Mexico until 9. Saludos hermano, cuidate y buena suerte!

    • @josevelazco9233
      @josevelazco9233 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Ayo i was also raised in Mexico until I was 9

    • @edgaropolous
      @edgaropolous 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's true

  • @debbiehf05
    @debbiehf05 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    I'm British but lived in Mexico for a while. Amazing culture and weather. Good, hardworking people with a strong love of their country and culture. Best food I've ever had was out there. Cartels are quite a big problem but I hope they eventually overcome it as a nation. Lots of love and wishes of prosperity from the UK.

    • @moon-pw1bi
      @moon-pw1bi ปีที่แล้ว +24

      wouldnt be british if u didnt bring up the weather

    • @Iceypatek
      @Iceypatek ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@moon-pw1bi lmao love my British carnales.

  • @adamarigi
    @adamarigi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3244

    The main core here is their government. They really need to abolish the corruption! I wish Mexico’s bright future! Love from Indonesia 🇲🇽🇮🇩

    • @oskars1419
      @oskars1419 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      indonesia is nice and big country :D

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Indonesia is almost the same size as Mexico.

    • @ELAOALA
      @ELAOALA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Ja
      Te voy a explicar que la corrupción del gobierno no tiene casi nada que ver
      El pueblo Méxicano no colabora, Nuestro presidente quiere trabajar para la seguridad nacional pero el pueblo no lo apoya asi que la culpa esta vez la tiene los ciudadanos Méxicanos

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@ELAOALA Eres chairo?

    • @ELAOALA
      @ELAOALA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tetraxis3011 que es eso?

  • @coldmountaindew4041
    @coldmountaindew4041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6615

    Mexico is a country with a lot of potential

    • @coldmountaindew4041
      @coldmountaindew4041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +528

      @@kostas0352 no there military is good it’s just there government

    • @coldmountaindew4041
      @coldmountaindew4041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +305

      @@kostas0352 there good I’m telling u even the USA has a lot of respect for them there the only ones who take out the cartels

    • @catholiccrusader5328
      @catholiccrusader5328 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@kostas0352 amen.

    • @pedroramirez6268
      @pedroramirez6268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +207

      @@kostas0352 ez to say, try going up against a major cartel with army full of hothead youngsters ready to make money. Even the us struggles with cartels. Mexico does good

    • @5vosteryoutuber300
      @5vosteryoutuber300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      @@coldmountaindew4041 yes bro si no fuera por el gobierno, mexico sería potencia mundial ya que contamos con lo necesario pero el maldito gobierno que no hace nada

  • @PARK-sy3tf
    @PARK-sy3tf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2383

    As an American, I wish nothing but success for our neighbors to the south. Love you guys and I hope our nations can continue to be friends for years to come. ♥️ 🇲🇽 🇺🇸

  • @rubenramirez313
    @rubenramirez313 ปีที่แล้ว +384

    I'm Dominican (born and raised in NYC to Dominican parents) and as a Latino, I love Mexican culture, food, music, and the people. I visited Mexico City in 2018 (the only part of the country that I've been to) and I feel in love with ginormous capital city! I plan to visit Mexico again (CDMX again of course and also Puerto Vallarta and maybe a few other places) in 2023. Mexican people both here in NYC and in CDMX are the friendliest and the most hard working of all Latino nationalities. Que viva Mexico!

    • @TheBlockbuster1982
      @TheBlockbuster1982 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mexican right here and dominicanos son la bandota.

    • @TDG361
      @TDG361 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You should visit Guanajuato city, it is beautiful 😄

    • @bestofworld90
      @bestofworld90 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for your love to Mexico my friend anytime you want your always welcome to southern region to my house 😊

    • @TheBlockbuster1982
      @TheBlockbuster1982 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bestofworld90 you are a funny guy, you just invited someone you b don't know to your house? Either you are un hablador or a mentiroso, anyway I know Dominicans and 3 of them I'm taking them to my house in Mexico city and my best friend from Puerto Rico but it took me 20-10 years so I finally can decide to take them home and you one comment? Relax vato.

    • @rubenramirez313
      @rubenramirez313 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheBlockbuster1982??

  • @Ernest0o
    @Ernest0o 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1327

    Mexican here. This was a completely accurate video. Scrolling trough the comments we all agree that we aren't really interested in becoming a global power, we just want violence and corruption to end, but it's really depressing to see how the most part of the population always blame the government without paying attention to themselves. Let's be honest, we all have seen someone stealing, doing bribery, breaking the rules.
    The way I see it is that the population needs a complete change of culture in all those fields, but it is almost impossible to achieve.

    • @Daniela3969
      @Daniela3969 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I strongly agree with you.
      No one has the power or even the right to be a leader and attempt to change the world around them if they don't change themselves first.
      Best you can do is be the best human being YOU can be

    • @alekriscast
      @alekriscast ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly… just look at Mexico City, robberies are so normalized it’s basically expected

    • @cclander
      @cclander ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a mexican well informed, I desagree: IT IS the goverment. They can allow or control the crime or corruption. Look at El Salvador, their goverment achive to fully ban crime but in México instead, the president "El Cacas", allow and protect the cartels attacking the middle class in the process. The real blame to the people is to allow such kind of corrupt and useless goverments or even defend those lazy, cheap law-mechanics for address the mayor issues: Crime, health care and education. People sell their vote for such low bargains and do nothing. Drug cartels are growing fast with lot of money, heavy weapons and political power, also a lot of young people preffer join them instead of doing hard working or fight them. It's a tumor growing for Mexico. Its a matter of time to make metástasis and get USA involved into a new "war on terror".

    • @diegolainez9368
      @diegolainez9368 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yo si kiero ser potencia como la mayoría de Méxicanos 🇲🇽 habla por ti broooo

    • @marcospina162
      @marcospina162 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@diegolainez9368 Ser potencia no sirve de nada si la corrupción y violencia permanecen igual. Yo prefiero parecernos más a los países nórdicos que a las potencias como USA, Russia o China

  • @ethanwmonster9075
    @ethanwmonster9075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3407

    Mexico by far had the most stable upbringing in Latin America and that's saying something, it managed to avoid all those horrible military dictatorships. Update : (This comment is wrong and it's a shame I forgot about it so long ago the most stable countries in Latin America are Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Chile, Mexico is not even in the top ten safest countries in Latin America. I'd say their main challenge is to assert control over their own country and stamp out the cartels.
    Sorry for not checking my sources just didn't want to miss informing anyone now I know better. Still gonna keep the thread up since people are replying to it even now.

    • @KaitiansCountryballs
      @KaitiansCountryballs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +561

      Mate you may have forgotten Santa Anna, Maximillian and Diaz to name a few

    • @ethanwmonster9075
      @ethanwmonster9075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +365

      @@KaitiansCountryballs sorry i didn't specify before 1930, after 1930 Mexico was a "democracy".

    • @oscardelafuente8649
      @oscardelafuente8649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +374

      @@ethanwmonster9075 it really wasn't , the pri became a dictatorship anyway

    • @ethanwmonster9075
      @ethanwmonster9075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      @@oscardelafuente8649 You missed the quotes either way it was the closest Latin America got to having stable democracy. Latin America's late democratization shows why its in such troubled straights. Despite having western culture, low population density, resources and people.

    • @MrAmhara
      @MrAmhara 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Mexico is a narco state.

  • @j0rgesin
    @j0rgesin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2885

    As a Mexican, I can say we do not want to be a world power, we just want more prosperity, more equality, zero corruption, zero classism, and more support for the health sector, and the education sector.
    We just want that.

    • @elcopetes6650
      @elcopetes6650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      hay gente para todo asi que no hables por todos

    • @Northbravo
      @Northbravo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Id say everything is very possible besides the zero corruption part since you get that in any country, but I get what you mean

    • @kharlanhero4428
      @kharlanhero4428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      Yo si quiere que México sea potencia. Esa mentalidad es la que nos limita

    • @Sohelanthropus
      @Sohelanthropus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Speak for yourself my dude, I want to be a world power
      We're gonna stay the same way we are now if we just go with the submissive card of saying "I don't want to be a world power" that's straight out bullshit buddy

    • @Sohelanthropus
      @Sohelanthropus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@kharlanhero4428 Exactamente

  • @saurabhsonic
    @saurabhsonic ปีที่แล้ว +588

    As a proud American, I can wholeheartedly say I love Mexico, and I hope they achieve the greatest success! They are our brothers and sisters!

    • @JJ-os8hv
      @JJ-os8hv ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Totally agree. USA are our big brothers. As brothers We are ready to help our family from Asían and European enemies. God bless North American Nations. 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇨🇦

    • @Kingtroll94
      @Kingtroll94 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mexico is destroying our country

    • @saurabhsonic
      @saurabhsonic ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kingtroll94 No it's not.

    • @Kingtroll94
      @Kingtroll94 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@saurabhsonic yes it is do u not see the people going over the boarder the National language is English and a lot of people from Mexico can’t even speak it a lot Hispanics and Africa Americans jobs were taken away from immigrants that were not even American and won’t even fight for our country so yeah Mexico will be the fall of USA that’s why trump build the wall and that’s 1 thing I can agree with him on to stop letting Mexicans come to the country probably in the future bc rn is not the best of times we’re all ready going through a lot

    • @DeadheadYates
      @DeadheadYates ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@Kingtroll94 this is an extremely myopic take, which is a very charitable assessment.
      Border security is always a salient issue with any sovereign nation but to think that immigrants from Mexico, legal or not, will be the downfall of the USA totally ignores our own involvement in the continual destabilization of Latin American politics and societies through the use of CIA-backed military coups to overthrow democratically elected governments, and other sordid elements of Cold War geo-political chess gaming between capitalist and communist Ideologically-driven proxy wars (the most notorious example being the Iran-Contra scandal under the Reagan administration in the 80's).
      The last 60-75 years of this kind of activity in Central and South America is the very thing that created the terrible political, economic and social conditions that drive so many people of those lands north in the first place.
      Furthermore, everything I just said is but a drop in the bucket regarding our own domestic issues which I guarantee are a much bigger threat to our own stability than Latin American migrants. To name but a few of many, many examples: Rampant political and economic corruption and cronyism. The highest degree of wealth inequality seen in generations. A burgeoning authoritarian police state that's really been coming into its own over the last few years. The expensive, bloody, near total failure of Nixon's War On Drugs since it's inception. The frightening degradation of worker's rights, and the rights of private citizens and workers alike to organize in solidarity in the face of ruling-class oppression. Social, political, and economic policies that continue to be built on a framework of gross exploitation and destruction of the most vulnerable demographics (racial minorities, the working poor, the disabled and chronically ill, people expressing alternative sexuality and gender identity, etc.). A corporate media industrial complex that fosters alienation, disunity, ignorance and hatred among the people. A culture that rewards grotesque selfishness, isolation and ignorance, while discouraging empathy, community, and critical thought.
      These are all issues that we, as a society, must admit to and address otherwise we're truly doomed. Not one of them exists as a consequence of Mexico being our southern neighbor

  • @romeromarquezmateo7724
    @romeromarquezmateo7724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1321

    If Mexico becomes a developed country it would more like Japan in the way of having soft power and influence by its culture and economy because we have very much potential and we are not in military problems with any county. Just having an army for self defense, as Mexican I would be happy if that is the future.

    • @romeromarquezmateo7724
      @romeromarquezmateo7724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@isaacrivera666 solo el tiempo lo dirá

    • @RK9ize
      @RK9ize 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@isaacrivera666 no todos tienen esa mentalidad

    • @MrErickloli
      @MrErickloli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The U.S. doesn't want a Japan in it's border.

    • @romeromarquezmateo7724
      @romeromarquezmateo7724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@MrErickloli no, it is very logical that it is not convenient for them to continue having a dangerous country next to them considering their endless war on drugs and if we become developed, we can be used as a great wall with the illegal immigrant from Mexico and from Central America because first they would not have the need to go to the United States, In addition, militarily it can be very helpful to have another powerful ally with a privileged position like Mexico.

    • @elyagomat
      @elyagomat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@MrEricklolithey literally said that when the mexican miracle took place in the 60's

  • @ericktellez7632
    @ericktellez7632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1417

    Another subject I’ve noticed that has improved for Mexico is soft power. Last year, 2021, Tequila became one of the top 3 fastest growing spirits in the world. Mexican alcoholic brands became America’s most imported drinks in the nation, beating German beers and Ireland’s Guinness. Not to mention the recent success in international cinema with the 3 Mexican directors winning best picture and Coco.

    • @franknwogu4911
      @franknwogu4911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      thats not even comparable to south korea

    • @emilianorios4761
      @emilianorios4761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +247

      @@franknwogu4911 just because its not comparable to south korea doesn't mean its not here. i guess following that logic san marino's millitary is non existent due to china's hordes of soldiers

    • @franknwogu4911
      @franknwogu4911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@emilianorios4761 well yes

    • @zap-ns1lu
      @zap-ns1lu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      @@emilianorios4761 dont waste time with this guy he is a troll. No one is talking about South Korea

    • @TheRealWaffles1
      @TheRealWaffles1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@franknwogu4911 L cope harder

  • @AssyrianKing209
    @AssyrianKing209 2 ปีที่แล้ว +386

    Mexican people are literally some of the best people i've ever met and had the pleasure to work with. All my Mexican co-workers are down to earth, big hearted and hard working. I've never had any of them screw me over the past 12+ years that i've worked with them. God bless Mexico, hope to be able to visit the beautiful country.

    • @AndreaMoorita
      @AndreaMoorita ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mexicans in other countries probably but not within the country, there are a significant number of good people but a greater number of people who hate seeing their neighbor do well, there is a lot of nepotism and corruption, there are also many NiNi (They don't study or work) people. In My opinión Indians and Central Americans works better.
      By the way, I'm Mexican.

    • @tankliluchuck
      @tankliluchuck ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You two can speak for your selves, you don't speak for me or others. What are you doing in our country to make it better other than trash talk your own. Pff...

    • @liberatedentrepreneur149
      @liberatedentrepreneur149 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They hide it well

    • @AntarcticAnimations
      @AntarcticAnimations ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As a mexican while some people are extremely nice, crime rate is through the roof the amount of kidnaps and shootings has only gotten worse

    • @leomarkaable1
      @leomarkaable1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Watch your wallet when you go. And pray you don't get arrested...the cops will shake you down. If they don't kidnap you. If you visit, stay out of the city and stay on the grounds of the resort.

  • @pedromendox
    @pedromendox ปีที่แล้ว +32

    our best latin brothers will surpass the issues with us 🇧🇷🤜🤛🇲🇽
    Love from Brazil!!!

    • @shayshawbear3865
      @shayshawbear3865 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We both just have the government we need to work on. But I pray that with time and effort, we can both become much better countries with safer environments. Love from Mexico 🇲🇽 ❤️

  • @JesbaamSanchez
    @JesbaamSanchez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +434

    I'm a first generation child with both of my parents are immigrants from México. I will say México can have the potential to become the world leader but it comes down to removing the corruption of the government and the grip of the drug cartels.

    • @woolmercuryy
      @woolmercuryy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      yea and for some reason people in the U.S cant stop buying drugs ffs

    • @smarrkidd5538
      @smarrkidd5538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@woolmercuryy naw fr ppl bring up Mexican cartels as if they arnt literally funded by Americans

    • @jackdannyels5059
      @jackdannyels5059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@woolmercuryy thats like a drug dealer saying "i cant stop selling ,the addixts will be sad they need me" if mexico stops , Dominican Republic cuba or americans will have to establish new sources ..... MEXICO DOES NOT HAVE TO SELL ITSELF FOR DRUG MONEY...

    • @miguelbalisi9952
      @miguelbalisi9952 ปีที่แล้ว

      In any developing nation like Mexico and the Philippines, corruption will stay.
      The Philippines was a very corrupt country. Now, corruption is very much curtailed and see what happened in the Philippines. it has drastically modernized and cranes at the present time is all over the big cities. Philippines can do it, Mexico can do it well too.

    • @ak9989
      @ak9989 ปีที่แล้ว

      Never indio

  • @schweinefleischteinvonreic5573
    @schweinefleischteinvonreic5573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +525

    as a Colombian, it's very inspiring to see Mexico doing well, hope they can some day get rid of the Narcos, so we may hopefully follow the same path

    • @ChickenMcThiccken
      @ChickenMcThiccken 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      legalize all drugs. no more narcos

    • @schweinefleischteinvonreic5573
      @schweinefleischteinvonreic5573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      @@ChickenMcThiccken it's the foreigners who have to legalize it

    • @brauliogabriel1740
      @brauliogabriel1740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      A mi entendimiento la situación en Colombia con los narcos está mejor que en México o me equivoco?

    • @schweinefleischteinvonreic5573
      @schweinefleischteinvonreic5573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@brauliogabriel1740 ciertamente, nuestro problema va mas de guerrillas subversivas y sicariato, ello ignorando las noticias de carteles mexicanos insertándose en Colombia, a la final no tengo intención de culpar a nadie

    • @gleqy
      @gleqy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@schweinefleischteinvonreic5573 porque tienes un nombre de alemania?

  • @chrisfenrir
    @chrisfenrir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +462

    During colonial times, Mexico was in charge of the Pacific trade route with China, for centuries it was the only country crossing the Pacific every year, Spanish and even indians from Mexico colonized the Philippines and a lot of stuff ingrained in Mexican culture arrived from this trade route (e.g. piñatas, fireworks, cockfighting, foods, etc.)

    • @justrandomthings709
      @justrandomthings709 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fireworks was invented in CHINA, not Mexico lol

    • @chrisfenrir
      @chrisfenrir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      @@justrandomthings709 you need to improve your reading comprehension.

    • @cinamon146
      @cinamon146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@chrisfenrir his brain didn’t comprehend the comment lol

    • @zamirroa
      @zamirroa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      México could keep being a global power but the shitty politicians destroyed the future of the country.
      Mexico as new spain used to be a great power inside of the empire like Peru

    • @damnd6277
      @damnd6277 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@justrandomthings709 thats what hes saying

  • @pessoaanormal4732
    @pessoaanormal4732 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    As a Brazilian i think that mexico has the most beautiful culture between the Hispanic countries even more than their colonizer Spain, they mixed so we'll the Spain refined European culture with the badass aztec culture and formed one the most beautiful countries in the western world, loves from Brazil ♥️🇲🇽♥️🇧🇷♥️

  • @pads6367
    @pads6367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +752

    As a Mexican I'm glad to see a video that goes beyond the surface things like corruption or poverty cause those are actually the symptoms of all the internal instability Mexico has gone through since it became independent due to other countries invading Mexico and its civil wars, and if you think about it, Mexico has been independent for less time than it was under Spanish rule, plus also missed the industrial revolution because of that and could start developing in that regard around a hundred years after the industrial revolution sparked

    • @JohnSmith-wx9wj
      @JohnSmith-wx9wj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It's easy to forget how long Spain held colonies in the Western Hemisphere.

    • @Jzarecta
      @Jzarecta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Actually new Spain was 300 yr old while Mexico is only 200 yr old.

    • @pads6367
      @pads6367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@Jzarecta exactly, and literally the same year Mexico became independent, the US was attempting to take Texas while Spain was trying to reconquer Mexico, and since then the US kept intervening in Mexico until they annexed the northern territories, plus France invaded Mexico TWICE, with the last intervention ending in 1867, plus Mexico's own inner conflicts
      A country cannot develop under those circumstances

    • @Pcordero87
      @Pcordero87 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "The surface things"

    • @josepedrogaleanogomez4870
      @josepedrogaleanogomez4870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Didnt knew industrial revolution didnt happened here bcuz of the spanish rule. It explains why most of latin america is still considered third world; it just didnt had enough time to develop bcuz the industrial revolution came like centuries later.

  • @Instruisto31
    @Instruisto31 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1578

    Mis mejores deseos para los hermanos mexicanos, abrazos desde España.

    • @MikerodRod
      @MikerodRod 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Saludos hermano desde Indio California!

    • @thenomad123
      @thenomad123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@MikerodRod y a ti hermano desde dhs

    • @MikerodRod
      @MikerodRod 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@thenomad123 Casi somos vecinos! 👍

    • @jeffthevomitguy1178
      @jeffthevomitguy1178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hablas esperanto?

    • @Instruisto31
      @Instruisto31 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jeffthevomitguy1178 kompreneble jes. :)

  • @jimpennin9588
    @jimpennin9588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +843

    This is a great series. What about some lesser know African countries that have been improving a lot like Rwanda and Botswana?

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      There are a lot of videos about Rwanda but not a lot about Botswana.

    • @jimpennin9588
      @jimpennin9588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@fullmetaltheorist Yup, and Botswana has been doing very well for awhile.

    • @shzarmai
      @shzarmai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What about Namibia?

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@shzarmai They're doing pretty well too.

    • @jimpennin9588
      @jimpennin9588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@shzarmai Yeah, Namibia would be great too! I couldn't list every African country that is rising

  • @pedrovieira-ri7lk
    @pedrovieira-ri7lk ปีที่แล้ว +26

    9:00 - 9:12
    As a brazilian I'll say that yes, Mexico does have a notable influence in my country and sereval other latin american nations. In Brazil's case its influence occours mainly from the tv shows that many kids from my country grown up seeing it, such as "Chapulin Colorado" and "El Chavo", both from famous mexican comedian Chispiro. In adittion, Mexican telenovelas are also pretty popular here and mexican artist Fhida Carlo and Diego Riveira are very talked in art classes.

  • @hansandhispanzerfaust6236
    @hansandhispanzerfaust6236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +359

    I would love for Mexico to develop more, less corruption, more stability, and a good economy would be great for their nation. And I would love better Mexico-USA relations.

    • @nathan7627
      @nathan7627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      well the fact america has to deal with large drug importation from the mexican-american border, i can see why american would be a little salty. but ya id like to see a stronger connection

    • @hansandhispanzerfaust6236
      @hansandhispanzerfaust6236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@nathan7627 yeah, i did forget about drug cartels as well, hate those people.

    • @juanlemus1236
      @juanlemus1236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mexican-American border?
      América is from Alaska to Argentina
      Sorry 😞

    • @nathan7627
      @nathan7627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@juanlemus1236 huh?

    • @Nonamelol.
      @Nonamelol. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@nathan7627 You get large drug importation because you yourselves are asking for them. Also yeah you’re ignoring the weapons that come down the border for “no reason” that end Mexican lives.

  • @tesla_autopilot
    @tesla_autopilot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +771

    While the jungle may be a limiting factor for a long time, I don’t see the desert as being as much of a geographic barrier as it used to be. Look at the USA, for example. The American deserts are now the fastest growing regions in the country, both by economy and population, as A/C has drastically changed living patterns in these regions. Nevada went from a population of 35,000 to over 2 million in the course of only several decades. Phoenix is now #5 in largest American cities; a few decades ago, it was hardly considered one of America’s great cities. Utah is the fastest growing state in America, with Salt Lake City becoming the country’s new tech capital. The same can apply to Mexico, especially with border cities like Laredo, Tijuana, and Ciudad Juárez positioned right next to major American cities. The border states are already Mexico’s richest and most developed, and Tijuana is already one of Mexico’s big economic powerhouses, especially in high tech industries, due to its proximity to San Diego. Mexico’s future lies in the desert: conquering it with A/C and more advanced dwellings, and using it to get closer to America and develop new high-tech economic sectors in Mexico. The desert is how Mexico can reach the ocean, cooperate with America, and grow into a world power.

    • @23uncbball
      @23uncbball 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Like the optimism, but water issues remain for both countries. Not even counting the water rights in the rio grande and shortages on the Colorado River, both America and Mexico in my opinion mee to invest more in desalination, especially with more people on land that will get hotter and drier in the next 30 years. I still believe the southwest America and Mexicos north can become a future growth engine, but there needs to be more water cooperation, or else the climate refugees on both sides will makes the governments overactive when it is too late to act.

    • @trla6505
      @trla6505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@23uncbball yeah, there were a lot of shortages of water lasr year

    • @kaushiksaikadali7460
      @kaushiksaikadali7460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      AC was the boon only to the Americans, as their basic household economy is sufficient to cool it with less than 1% of the annual household income. Whereas in countries like Mexico or any other where the household income in states can get lesser than 10k USD per year, the costs of AC would go upto 5-10%, approximately the cost of food. That's exactly why South Asia hasn't been getting better, though it has the best location for all kinds of human activities, the household income matters. And it will take time until they get more and more jobs, that these cities will get bigger. Jobs first, cities later.

    • @kaushiksaikadali7460
      @kaushiksaikadali7460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      AC was the boon only to the Americans, as their basic household economy is sufficient to cool it with less than 1% of the annual household income. Whereas in countries like Mexico or any other where the household income in states can get lesser than 10k USD per year, the costs of AC would go upto 5-10%, approximately the cost of food. That's exactly why South Asia hasn't been getting better, though it has the best location for all kinds of human activities, the household income matters. And it will take time until they get more and more jobs, that these cities will get bigger. Jobs first, cities later.

    • @rageraptor7127
      @rageraptor7127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I mean they have lots of platues that has traditionally forced the Mexicans to centralize power in the southern central part of the country. Much of the roads aren’t buildable without huge issues. And some of the corruption undermines a lot of the building and growth of the country.

  • @revan7383
    @revan7383 2 ปีที่แล้ว +980

    America and Mexico have had a rocky history but I hope our countries and our people are able to get along better in the future. Love from USA

    • @darkmattersolo2137
      @darkmattersolo2137 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      America? you know Mexico is consider north America?

    • @revan7383
      @revan7383 2 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      @@darkmattersolo2137 Yeah, of course. I just mean the USA lol

    • @yxjans7936
      @yxjans7936 2 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      @@darkmattersolo2137 you must be fun at parties lol

    • @darkmattersolo2137
      @darkmattersolo2137 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@yxjans7936 but its true tho... just stating the facts.

    • @Lackifall
      @Lackifall 2 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      @@darkmattersolo2137 america is literally a synonym for the us. You say north america when referring to the continent

  • @anthonymanderson7671
    @anthonymanderson7671 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I wish mexico to be a more prosperous, peaceful, non corrupt and non violent country from zambia 🇿🇲❤️🇲🇽

  • @chronofactor2037
    @chronofactor2037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +585

    I hope that Mexico continues to improve, the culture is very warm and interesting, the cuisine is great also, helps living in AZ where we tend to get a lot of Mexican restaraunts, but I'd love to visit some time to get some fully authentic Mexican food. Not that our restaraunts aren't authentic, but I do know that the owners of such restaraunts do need to cater to an American audience here still.

    • @benjaminr6153
      @benjaminr6153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You live in AZ and have never been to Mexico!!???

    • @chronofactor2037
      @chronofactor2037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@benjaminr6153 Yeah, I live further up north in the state and my family never traveled all that much, I plan to go soon though.

    • @benjaminr6153
      @benjaminr6153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@chronofactor2037 It’s a wonderful destination. Mexico City is world class - like NYC where I live but a lot cheaper and with friendlier people - Oaxaca is considered the best place for food. Guadalaraja has the most attractive people (or so they say)

    • @chronofactor2037
      @chronofactor2037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@benjaminr6153 It would certainly be cool to visit Mexico City, I'm probably gonna need to work on my spanish a bit too.

    • @gustavovillegas5909
      @gustavovillegas5909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@chronofactor2037 Mex American here, I visited Mex City for the first time last year and fell in LOVE! It’s a vibrant city with a great night life near el Zócalo and so much historical stuff both Pre Columbian and afterwards. If you go, the Castle of Chapultepec is a must see for sure

  • @evanricheson1630
    @evanricheson1630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Mexican and Native history is one of the most interesting histories to me because we know so much about European and Asian history I think that there is still more to dig up about the Aztec other Mezo-American and even Native American cultures and their history

    • @masoch87
      @masoch87 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      There's a reason we don't know much about them. The catholics destroyed almost all records of their past, all in the name of Jesus. It was a bloody conquista, and to make it worse, other natives who hated the aztecs joined the spaniards to topple the Aztec rulership. We barely know what happened to mayas because they were already almost gone when the spaniards arrived.

    • @Cub__
      @Cub__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@masoch87 But I guess a good question is "Why" ?

    • @episode6691
      @episode6691 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Cub__ maybe this isn’t what you meant but they destroyed the natives culture etc to easily control and have them conform.

    • @xxllamaborrachaxx9374
      @xxllamaborrachaxx9374 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Spoiler alert: as cool and badass as they were, of all Native American cultures, Mesoamerican cultures were among the LEAST peaceful or eco-friendly... Just saying this because if I see ONE more friggin weirdo sit down to meditate in front of the AZTEC calendar, or pray to some 'Great Spirit' for rain in Mexico, I will die of cringe, I friggin swear.

    • @xxllamaborrachaxx9374
      @xxllamaborrachaxx9374 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Cub__ At least in one tribe's case: because maniacs started crucifying kids, and the priest dude in charge absolutely lost his sh -can't say I blame him, tho.
      In most cases, however, it was a combination of manic evangelization, looting, and lack of proper record keeping.
      Edit: as a fun fact: we STILL have crucification recreations in certain places (Iztapalapa), but much safer, I promise.

  • @exyl_sounds
    @exyl_sounds 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Egyptian passing through. This is actually really fun and informative. Just inquisitioned the subscribe button

  • @michelleacostarodriguez7426
    @michelleacostarodriguez7426 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hello! Mexican here. Beautiful video. We mexicans sometimes forget the greatness of our own land and it is heartwarming to hear all of this from someone abroad🫶

  • @hardlo7146
    @hardlo7146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +379

    The Mayans didn't "went" they actually remained independent for centuries after the Aztecs fell, and still exist today

    • @nicholasoneal1521
      @nicholasoneal1521 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Definetly, hate how often this is overlooked

    • @bottleofwater1675
      @bottleofwater1675 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      the Maya*

    • @hardlo7146
      @hardlo7146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@bottleofwater1675 Los Mayas

    • @bottleofwater1675
      @bottleofwater1675 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@hardlo7146 in English the correct term to refer to the people is “the Maya”. “A Maya”, “two Maya.”
      Mayan refers to the Mayan languages, one of which is called Maya (or Yucatec Maya).

    • @vizsla8579
      @vizsla8579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Jajaja, no they didn’t Tlaxcala Indians broke the buck of the maya. All that’s left is larpers who think they are maya. Sure the culture and food remain but the nation is dead.

  • @roxygidz3428
    @roxygidz3428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +323

    I went to Mexico last weekend (Tampico) and it was beautiful. My uncle is well established and his house was soooo pretty even if it was small. We went to Miramar and I already miss it. The people there are so humble, I helped out my grandpa in his little shop in Mendez and everyone claimed that I looked just like my dad when I was his age.

    • @losgatossonmuychidos
      @losgatossonmuychidos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ¡Cool, I’m from Tampico!

    • @ConsciousApostle999
      @ConsciousApostle999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Looked just like my dad when I was his age"

    • @Tejano12398
      @Tejano12398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@losgatossonmuychidos same

    • @igorz3551
      @igorz3551 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ConsciousApostle999 when i was his age lmaoooo

    • @kensilver4462
      @kensilver4462 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I lived in Tampico while attending
      Medical School at Universidad del Noreste . It was wonderful!

  • @needlehead9888
    @needlehead9888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    Love Mexico From 🇮🇪

    • @abeldelatorre1382
      @abeldelatorre1382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Ahh the "Valientes Colorados" we love you Irish folk as well

    • @ericktellez7632
      @ericktellez7632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      St Patrick’s battalion

    • @MrArmandioux
      @MrArmandioux 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      México loves Ireland 🇮🇪❤️🇲🇽

    • @pososow
      @pososow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Im mexican

    • @frogsassesine7931
      @frogsassesine7931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the paradox, right

  • @Aszarot
    @Aszarot ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Man, watching this video and reading the comments has filled me with hope, happiness and a bit of pride.

  • @jakev5187
    @jakev5187 2 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    I really hope to see Mexico prosper in my lifetime. I would love for North America to feel whole and safe, where everyone can belong

    • @ramon2008
      @ramon2008 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Hell yeah man

    • @elmerpelayo
      @elmerpelayo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ramon2008 pl

    • @leomarkaable1
      @leomarkaable1 ปีที่แล้ว

      It won't prosper. It is infiltrated by criminals. It is as if the USA were to be stuck in the 1930's.

  • @scandathepole723
    @scandathepole723 2 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    I pray Mexico will become powerful
    I greet from Poland 🇵🇱🤝🇲🇽

    • @leomarkaable1
      @leomarkaable1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Won't happen.

    • @arturobriones2644
      @arturobriones2644 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@leomarkaable1 bro think he important 💀💀

    • @BritishBraon
      @BritishBraon ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Sun Light Bro you sounded like an incel lol

    • @entrophyer
      @entrophyer ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@BritishBraon facts lol, bro writing all that in his mom's basement

  • @choosingname611
    @choosingname611 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    2:18 I just want to add something here: the Baja California peninsula started to grow not to long ago from people investing in the land, to even construction of for example hotels, the peninsula is growing.

    • @justinherrera3722
      @justinherrera3722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Sadly it’s just the foreigners that are taking advantage of it the locals don’t see any benefit

    • @choosingname611
      @choosingname611 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@justinherrera3722 sadly yea its mostly foreign investment but will see how it affect in the long term.

    • @UrianErreErre
      @UrianErreErre 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@United States of Mexico🇲🇽have less than 800,000, i live there

    • @choosingname611
      @choosingname611 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @United States of Mexico🇲🇽 it's that and how much tourist go to the peninsula especially the beaches and most are from the United States there's even TV shows that are filmed there.

  • @ch4rb
    @ch4rb ปีที่แล้ว +17

    There's a lot of factors. Unfortunately _our_ founding fathers didn't think for the long run, this either showcases that they thought "yeah I don't want country I just want someone better to take care of us" or they thought Mexico wouldn't last. Whenever we got the chance of standing our ground, kinda like when our parents tell us to open a savings account instead of spending all our money at once, we didn't do it. You can actually see that example in almost every capital city, the roads and buildings were never meant to be expanded and upgraded but rather sold or demolished. We have a lot of natural resources that the US just doesn't have, yet, because of other needs that we so openly displayed to our imports we now have to kneel everytime someone else wants something, because we never stood strong in a commercial and political stance. We are a very hard working class, even the highest of the top social pyramid are very hard working, and about 80% of our population wants to get rich by working instead of finding a way to passively grow at large (again, because our culture favors the right now instead of the later on).
    If you go to Mexico and ask a random person "would you prefer $20k US dollars right now, or a guaranteed $150k in 5 years from now?" They will 90% of the time say "give me the $20k now". Add Cartels, a bad reputation for promising and dreaming big but never actually doing anything, and a very corrupted government (I say this because a lot of things that are laws are ignored, even in the day to day, simplest of things that should be enforced are ignored and optional for most citizens) and you got Mexico for the last 30 years (there was a time where the US dollar was at a historical low exchange rate, of $1 US for ~10MXN, today its $20 MXN) and possibly for the next 10 years or so. Luckily this could be fixed if the next generation of leaders and political candidates take advantage of our weaknesses and make stronger decisions on a political landscape where there might be a global crisis or recession.
    I yearn for the day that I say "I want to stay in Mexico" instead of saying "I want to move to Canada or Sweden, or somewhere else".

    • @flyingonionring
      @flyingonionring ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree, and specially that last part

    • @youtubehasbigcringe
      @youtubehasbigcringe ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree, i also don’t want you to move to Canada or Sweden

    • @ch4rb
      @ch4rb ปีที่แล้ว

      @alexkalinowski2183 there is nothing more deceptive than an obvious bait. Man I wish I could post images on the comments 😪

    • @coastaku1954
      @coastaku1954 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Honestly, I'm not sure how you'd like Canada. It's either really cold, or humid as hell and hot, and there is such a small Latino population here. Just White, Asian and South Asian, though I'm not sure Sweden is much better. You'd be very alone in both countries

    • @ch4rb
      @ch4rb 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @coastaku1954 Not about being alone, but the amount of things you can learn and do, even if you are alone and miserable, find any kind of job, master your English and you'll be 80% more competent than the rest of workers back in your country.

  • @ElJosher
    @ElJosher 2 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    One problem is that Mexico is too dependent on foreign investment and doesn't have enough local businesses that keeps wealth in Mexico.

    • @josegiovanigonzalezmata5570
      @josegiovanigonzalezmata5570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Throughout history, Mexico has wanted to get ahead (it even had many opportunities to surpass the USA) But the Americans themselves have avoided the development of the country itself Mexico, following regulations imposed by the Americans and offering their "humanitarian aid" to a a country like Mexico, which was able to advance only with time themselves. Time passed and the country, seeing no hope of advancing while the USA was there, unfortunately chose to become a corrupt government. :(

    • @alrent2992
      @alrent2992 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Embezzlements, corruption, cartels, inequalities!!

    • @isaaccisneros9778
      @isaaccisneros9778 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@josegiovanigonzalezmata5570 You are absolutely right.
      USA has always been halting the development of Mexico. They just want it to be developed enough to give the USA good trade deals, but not developed enough to stand their ground economically.
      It is a fact, not opinion, see how the USA intervened in the mexican revolution, they saw their chance and took it, as always.

    • @PASTRAMIKick
      @PASTRAMIKick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Even though I hate banks, it has also been said that the banking sector isn't as developed which also hinders the business stuff.

    • @PASTRAMIKick
      @PASTRAMIKick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@isaaccisneros9778 "Pobre Mexico, tan lejos de dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos"
      -Chad Porfirio Diaz

  • @avgerinosx3135
    @avgerinosx3135 2 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    Mexico has such a nice culture 🇲🇽🤝🇬🇷❤️

    • @dire343
      @dire343 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Your culture it's so best, you invented the filosophy, the Education, the olympics, Mathemathics, the politics and Astronomy love Greece 🇬🇷❤️

    • @livonia1807
      @livonia1807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mexico culture is a disgrace to Spain

    • @Amen-Magi
      @Amen-Magi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dire343 egypt have them before

    • @Nonamelol.
      @Nonamelol. ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Amen-Magi nope

  • @keeganbrown9967
    @keeganbrown9967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I could only hope that one day the US Mexico trade relations are like a sibling rivalry where there is respect I and competition between the two but overall it's positive.

    • @mrmclovin2018
      @mrmclovin2018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ª

    • @PASTRAMIKick
      @PASTRAMIKick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      if the US doesn't become more friendly Mexico might fall under China's sphere and that would be terrible.

    • @mikechat16
      @mikechat16 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its already like that, Mexico has always been the little brother to the us

    • @warreneckels4945
      @warreneckels4945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      h0ser did not mention one little fact about the NAFTA renegotiation: Mexico wanted it every bit as much as the United States.
      It should be understood that Mexico and the United States are closeted allies. Neither side will admit to it.
      The new NAFTA demanded that Mexico make certain reforms that Mexico's politicians, business and populace wanted at all levels of society. The new NAFTA demanded that workers be allowed to organize their own unions outside the auspices of government, which was approved by a unanimous vote in the Mexican Legislature. The new NAFTA demanded that a certain portion of auto manufacturing be done with a labor expense exceeding $28/hour, just at the time when all sectors and levels of Mexican society concluded that higher wages were precisely what Mexico needed and Mexicans wanted.
      The whole "Remain in Mexico" was conceived of by an American nationalist President, who somehow negotiated a deal that Mexico's nationalist President spun as a glorious victory for Mexico. (It also "encouraged" AMLO to declare wage hikes along the border that any left-populist would want at a time when everybody else in the country wanted it.)
      So the two countries continued to stare at each other in the streets, but Lord knows what went on between the sheets.

    • @cuddlemuffin.9545
      @cuddlemuffin.9545 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mexico will always be America's backyard. Its not gonna be equal

  • @rigo7297
    @rigo7297 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    As a Salvadorian I love my Mexican brothers & wish success for their nation.

  • @Ivan-wt2he
    @Ivan-wt2he 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Hello, I am from Mexico and I thank you for making this video without all the stereotypes placed, I hope that the United States and Mexico can get along better, I hope that your channel prospers and that you have a great day

  • @drmustafa3538
    @drmustafa3538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I always want to visit mexico 😍
    God bless them our brothers
    🇮🇶🤝🇲🇽

    • @Kh7zz
      @Kh7zz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      XD?

    • @clomiseliar2910
      @clomiseliar2910 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kh7zz xd

    • @drmustafa3538
      @drmustafa3538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Kh7zz is something funny here !

    • @Erosdiaz000
      @Erosdiaz000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@drmustafa3538 no, it's just people with mental problems, love to Irak from México 🥰

    • @Kh7zz
      @Kh7zz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@drmustafa3538 No

  • @MarcusHansen276
    @MarcusHansen276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    One word: corruption. In my research/interviewing people, they’ve said that the government and people who have the money purposefully prevent people from moving up and getting any amount of money. It’s kinda sad and I wish there were more freedoms other than anyone can party all the time.
    That being said, Mexico is a great place. It’s got good food and music. It’s just the gangs and the government corruption kinda control the country.

    • @MarcusHansen276
      @MarcusHansen276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@isaacrivera666 sí tu estás correcto

    • @dajokerantonio1224
      @dajokerantonio1224 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Traitors to their homeland and citizens they need to be fired what goes around comes around.

    • @dieterrosswag933
      @dieterrosswag933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's in the DNA to be corrupt aka egoistic

    • @arthurbenedetti9146
      @arthurbenedetti9146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      corruption is always a symptom not the cause

    • @MarcusHansen276
      @MarcusHansen276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@arthurbenedetti9146 well it’s a symptom that causes those countries to never get better

  • @aiironiko8891
    @aiironiko8891 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Solo quiero decir que me encantan nuestros vecinos y quiero lo mejor para las gentes de México. Soy de los estados pero tengo mucho respeto y amor para México ❤

    • @Bringmeoneofthosechickens
      @Bringmeoneofthosechickens ปีที่แล้ว +3

      English please, youtube was made in America.

    • @ethanalvarado0713
      @ethanalvarado0713 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Bringmeoneofthosechickens bruh

    • @bxkxhxkg82
      @bxkxhxkg82 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Bringmeoneofthosechickens nah aprende español mejor XD

    • @23casi24capibaras
      @23casi24capibaras ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Bringmeoneofthosechickens Spanish Comunity is big that anglo-parlants

    • @Usernotfound11037
      @Usernotfound11037 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Bringmeoneofthosechickens Bruh- TH-cam being made in The USA (I dont like to call it "America") doesnt mean we all have to speak English.
      Theres lots of other communities in youtube, like the hispanic community which speaks spanish, the french community, the portuguese community, etc..
      If u wanna know what this comment says, then learn Spanish.
      Ñ

  • @rexyjp1237
    @rexyjp1237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    There also was an giant asteroid impact in the yucatan peninsula

    • @quemeveswey5123
      @quemeveswey5123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The chicxulub crater

    • @juliomanuel1885
      @juliomanuel1885 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      That isn't any ordinary asteroid impact, thats the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs.

    • @FriedRice3519
      @FriedRice3519 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i think my great grandma used to live near those areas

    • @victoria4987
      @victoria4987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      we havent recovered since

    • @ricardouriostegui9510
      @ricardouriostegui9510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, that was important 70 million years ago, but not for contemporary mexicans. Very random comment.

  • @xavierhernandez9619
    @xavierhernandez9619 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Hi! I’m Mexican and I am impressed of how well informed this video is.👏👏👏

  • @MrThad15
    @MrThad15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    This explains why I’m starting to seem more “Hecho en México” on stuff 😂

    • @zap-ns1lu
      @zap-ns1lu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      *"Avocados from Mexico" ad plays*

    • @soupfan1
      @soupfan1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@zap-ns1lu bruh my family exports avocados to the usa

    • @soupfan1
      @soupfan1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Rey Graso IV (dueño de hispanoamérica) no?

  • @MasterChiefFLY
    @MasterChiefFLY ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I love my country 🇲🇽❤️ Viva México!

  • @SuperMono64
    @SuperMono64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    It makes me really glad to see people from other countries speak amazing of Mexico, while of course is not amazing to live here, it really feels welcoming.
    One other problem Mexico sees is that some cities are exploided or forgotten. In my state there is a larger tax (IVA in mx) law than in any other state, in fact, my state would not even be what it is if it wasnt for the city I live in, we have the largest tax rate in the whole country, when said tax goes to the state, less than 3% of it comes back and most of it stays in the state capital, it honestly is like night and day if you see my city compared with the capital mentioned before

  • @christophermoody8672
    @christophermoody8672 2 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    this honestly makes me so happy for mexico, i really hope they're able to clear out the corruption and violence sometime soon to capitalize on their upcoming growth

    • @Zwste
      @Zwste 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Lmao the cartels are going to stay here for a long ass time

    • @kirku8114
      @kirku8114 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah...about that
      It's either Full blown intervention from the US or Self Militarization like what ocurred in Columbia
      Until then It's finding the random head in my crop field...

    • @Daniela3969
      @Daniela3969 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Zwste True, but still very sad

    • @flyingonionring
      @flyingonionring ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Zwsteunless education gets better

    • @leomarkaable1
      @leomarkaable1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Consider how long Mexico has been corrupt. Cleaning out corruption, SOON? Are you kidding? What planet are you on?

  • @MinnesotaMania
    @MinnesotaMania 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Do a Norway vs the future video please I'm telling you will love making it

    • @ericktellez7632
      @ericktellez7632 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is it true that Norway eats a lot of tacos?

    • @theviscount4622
      @theviscount4622 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ericktellez7632 Yes, i think 6 million norwegian people eat it every friday.

    • @meetyomaker2396
      @meetyomaker2396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@theviscount4622 I find it funny how the Scandinavian countries love Mexico lol our mythical stories and lore is pretty sicckkkk

    • @agustin2812
      @agustin2812 ปีที่แล้ว

      Muslim norway

  • @NORTH02
    @NORTH02 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice channel man, great amount of detail

  • @slippy9251
    @slippy9251 2 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Mexico really is a beautiful country in almost every aspect, my parents only came to America because of their concern over gangs, crime, and corruption in the government and military, if those problems were solved one day, we would be seeing a glorious rise in my home country.

    • @manwhoismissingtwotoenails4777
      @manwhoismissingtwotoenails4777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I hope it does get fixed it has so much potential and has so many goods it could import.

    • @raymonddon8875
      @raymonddon8875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      im chinese and im glad to see my country become # 1. i hope one day mexico will become a superpower as well. much love and respect from china. xoxo

    • @TylerSolvestri
      @TylerSolvestri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@raymonddon8875 China isn't 1#. In terms of development they are far behind of being the first.

    • @raymonddon8875
      @raymonddon8875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TylerSolvestri oh yes there are. just do a little research and you will see. (i.e., one belt one road, all new projects around the world, world class space program & many more.)

    • @thisone3519
      @thisone3519 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@raymonddon8875 china is riding a huge bubble that will burst. India will replace china as asia's world power

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Mexico: Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquakes, corruption, and drug gangs
    The Philippines: *Ah, I see you're a country of culture as well*
    No country will ever be as supreme and perfect as ours. It wasn't easy becoming what we are today, but we did it. So if we can work together, build and develop a nation, so can Mexico.

    • @helljumper6969
      @helljumper6969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And both are Spanish colony.

    • @marichu899
      @marichu899 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@helljumper6969 were*

    • @spaniardsrmoors6817
      @spaniardsrmoors6817 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@helljumper6969 Si senor we are mucho bad.

  • @TechnoTanuki
    @TechnoTanuki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Our politicians in United States really make Mexico sound like it's a horrible place, but it I always respected the country. Mexican people are awesome, and their country deserves respect.

    • @burrito1413
      @burrito1413 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      For the average Mexican, yes it is a horrible place full of corruption, death, violence and constant fear of cartels. Nonetheless work must go on.

  • @Juni2416
    @Juni2416 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am a Mexican (i was born there, grew up there, STILL living there) and as a Mexican, i hope that we and our neighbors to the north and south can live happily as friends, Love from Baja California!

  • @reborn756
    @reborn756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I thought in 2019 the US reported México was its biggest trading partner, not the third, but, this was probably made during those months México lost its place since it lost it for a few months before regaining it.

    • @duplicate8297
      @duplicate8297 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      China has had large trading initiatives in recent. ‘Made in China 2025’ was a (now COVID delayed/cancelled) program to increase Chinese trade power in the world, focusing on further industrialization of its production capabilities and a larger tech industry. While not yet complete to the specifications of the initiative, it has been a partial success, and has moreso solidified China as more of a product based economy rather than a manufacturing one. Combine this with the booming tech-sector of america, and you get the picture.
      (Amateur takes and knowledge here. If anybody knows better please tell.)

    • @currahee
      @currahee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@duplicate8297 idk how china is gonna stop being the worlds factory tbh

    • @sfloresyesi
      @sfloresyesi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      In 2021, Mexico remained as the 1st biggest trading partner of the USA.

    • @ps92809
      @ps92809 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@currahee if socialism somehow leaves china thats how

    • @currahee
      @currahee 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ps92809 so in about 20 years? i don't see the CCP lasting longer than 30 years at the most

  • @emmysan8784
    @emmysan8784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You have a way more optimistic view of my country's future than I do. Great video by the way 👌.

  • @pottertheavenger1363
    @pottertheavenger1363 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    There's also an undergoing improvement, construction, and investment in transport infrastructure. Trains in the poorer south, cargo railroads connecting ports, bigger ports, rehabilitation of northern railroads...
    As a Mexican it's an incredible time to live in. I see wealth in even poor neighborhoods, houses built up nice, upgraded. I see newer cars and tech.
    One thing that's overlooked is that while our income may be low compared to developed countries, our way of life and expenses are cheaper. Healthcare is affordable, transport is efficient, cities are walkable, food is cheap, college is free. For decades we had educated people but little work, and now with the boom in industry everyone has a job.
    Mexico is improving so that we've had much migration from USA and Europe. We have about 1.5 million gringos living here.
    In a decade we'll be the manufacturing and shipping hub of the western hemisphere.
    Viva México! 🇲🇽

    • @yriamruiz3819
      @yriamruiz3819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wey en que México vives? Quiero irme para allá
      El transporte está del qlo
      Saturado al maximo, ineficiente, en pésimo estado
      El tren maya es una total estupidez
      La pobreza sigue igual
      Ni con las pensiones ni planes de gobierno actuales mejora la situación
      La educación en lugar de aumentar empeora
      La SEP está llena y atascada de corrupción
      Todo mal de verdad
      Es un país con potencial, si
      Pero decir que estamos en buenos tiempos es hasta mal pedo

    • @hueso5071
      @hueso5071 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Most of those 1.5 million gringos are Mexican Americans and old retirees from the USA. Mexico is still dirt poor and mexican migration is starting to increase into the United States once again.

    • @pottertheavenger1363
      @pottertheavenger1363 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hueso5071 Mexico-Muricans don't count in the census, they're considered nationals.

    • @hueso5071
      @hueso5071 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pottertheavenger1363 they do count as Americans. Because they hold U.S. citizenship. They're counted as Americans living in Mexico.

  • @querube78
    @querube78 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I really don't know how this will go for Mexico. I'm Mexican American and you just perfectly described my family history (parents immigrated during the expansion and now my young professional family members don't plan on moving from Mexico). I see more and more products made there (the push buttons Amazon uses and lots of metal manufacturing) in my years of working in warehouses as the world started to distance itself from China. I'd like to add the amount of investment China has made to Mexico to the point cartel leaders have been vocal about it. The video was able to center less on the cartel and corruption which is usually what Mexicans and Americans 1st think about being a drawback in Mexico; well done. Latinos are a HUGE demographic in the US and I don't see that changing anytime soon especially with them tending to have more kids than other ethnic groups. No one can predict what the future holds for the CUM alliance (we're doing the world cup together for fucks sake! We can no longer be ignored) but I am optimistic about the young Mexican population who is doing a lot better than I expected. They are educated, very conscious, and ready for the change that is about to happen. It helps that those on the other side are willing to help them with their studies and businesses as well as support the elderly so the young can go chase their dreams. Immigration is a heavy topic for Americans and even Mexicans as they grapple with newcomers from Haiti and Venezuela. Some Mexicans are bitter thinking "We were here 1st and have been here for decades, why are they getting asylum?" due to the hurdles Mexicans faced when coming here while others welcome them as fellow Latinos who speak the same language and came for the same reasons and wish to unite the Latino population so things are smoother for everyone involved. Personally I think America will become more strict as even my Mexican American relatives are starting to lose their Mexican identity (less and less speak Spanish and even less speak Otomi, Zapoteco, Nahuatl, or any of the precolonial languages)
    but I could be wrong as it will definitely grow and now American born Mexicans (who get citizenship through their parents or apply for dual) are able to live, study, buy property, and pay taxes to Mexico, not to mention will vote/act more friendly to the country conpared to the previous generations. Christianity has a firm grip in the culture so much that my father ceased doing traditional Aztec dances when he converted and the old ways and celebration being seen as "sinful" or 'demonic"something I am very glad the new generation is pushing back in, like I said I have high hopes for them. It will be a spectacle to see...if climate change doesn't wipe us out in the next decade.

  • @josanikik
    @josanikik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Regardong Mexico not projecting its power outwards, there's also the Estrada doctrine, in which the govt of Mexico states that every nation has the right of self-determination, i.e, legally it will not meddle with other courries' affairs

    • @PASTRAMIKick
      @PASTRAMIKick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      if it's Woodrow Wilson's "self determination" then it's total bullshit, but at least Mexico has soft power.

    • @jyrrin
      @jyrrin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      was about to bring this up. at one point, Mexico tried to introduce the "castaneda doctrine" to nullify the estrada doctrine, which would've meant Mexico could participate in UN peacekeeping missions and even have an observer status for NATO. though tbh, if i was mexican, i'd love for mexico to stay out of international affairs and to just live a super sidelined existence away from crazy ass geopolitics where every damn country wants to have a "place at the table". if mexico ever got it's shit together, i'd imagine it'd be something like a new zealand where they're just friendly to everyone and try to stay ignored by the world, which isn't so bad if you think of it. I'd actually want to move there.

    • @MisterJIFF
      @MisterJIFF 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Estrada era un payaso, esa doctrina era "déjame hacer mi desmadre, no digas nada y yo no digo nada", no es una política de respeto, es una política de tiranuelos

    • @Yha1000itz
      @Yha1000itz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MisterJIFF que se chingue entre ellos. Mientras yo los veo y como mis palomitas.

    • @lasttrinity0780
      @lasttrinity0780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MisterJIFF era necesario. Estados Unidos no estaba de acuerdo con la constitucion eh intento intervenir, pero Mexico la uso pare prevenir ser conocido como estado fallido

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588
    @robertortiz-wilson1588 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Whatifaltisk is one of the only other channel creators I've heard that's mentioned how Latin American governments started off on bad footing because the previous Spanish Empire colonial system they had been living under for generations wasn't set up for them to work as independently-run countries.
    Very well done interesting and optimistic video!

  • @DylanM15
    @DylanM15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Honestly I’m genuinely amazed at times that Mexico isn’t more developed. The majority of people have the heart and are extremely hard working welcoming wonderful people. They’ll treat basically anyone just like they’re family. While there is corruption and violence it’s vastly improved over the last 10 years. A lot of the issues come down to education and core infrastructure (streets, electrical, sewage, water, etc) which absolutely is improving but it’ll take some time still. At the same time though it’s hard to keep up with the issues when a lot of cities are so overpopulated though. I’d guess that the population number you gave may only be 80-90% of the true population. I know Juarez is listed at 1.5-2 million. But it’s probably closer to 2.5 to 3 million. I’d guess Mexico City is probably off quite a bit too. Honestly I’ve seen the improvements and I see the hearts of the citizens. I’m excited to see where Mexico will be at even by 2030-2050!

    • @raymonddon8875
      @raymonddon8875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      china is building massive infrastructure in mexico as we speak....

    • @AngelloDelNorte
      @AngelloDelNorte 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mexico is rich, has good economy, and even if it's greatly developed with Latino culture and ideologies it will always remain the same.
      Have you been to Central Valley CA basically a latino/Mexican society? It's the same stuff there as well with it's serious lack of safety, violent ideologies, 3rd world condition, so unsecured, and very unstable but this time they have no excuse.

    • @Archedgar
      @Archedgar ปีที่แล้ว

      Mexico's govt is extremely tyrannical and therefore extremely corrupt.
      People outside cannot possibly fathom how bad things are and what corruption looks like here but basically you're extremely wrong in saying "it's vastly improved over the last 10 years". Things are worse than they've ever been and will continue to spiral out of control. You have completely missed the point.

  • @Jobe-13
    @Jobe-13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is great. The channel Kraut covered this in a TON of detail. A like how you’re providing even more info on this.

  • @EU_Red_Fox
    @EU_Red_Fox 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I would love if we could get your sources in the video description! Good content just think having linked sources adds credibility.

  • @shzarmai
    @shzarmai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Great video and please consider making a video on ''Argentina vs the future''

  • @abeldelatorre1382
    @abeldelatorre1382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    I fucking love this country tbh, however inequality here is fucking ridiculous, I work and make more than double the minimum wage and that still is like 450USD, and taking into account that we're a fast growing economy seems pretty unfair... Plus we should stop depending on oil, OK bye

    • @franco3190
      @franco3190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      bro, just go online and tell everyone Mexico is the greatest country on the Earth over and over and over until the government gives you free money. Everyone is already on board, why aren't you?

    • @franco3190
      @franco3190 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Justin Y. i agree with this statement. It will always have a brain-drain, keeping them to keep playing second-fiddle to the US

    • @ItsBeanyyy
      @ItsBeanyyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      450 USD damn that's 9,000 pesos. Most Mexicans be making 200 pesos a day

    • @abeldelatorre1382
      @abeldelatorre1382 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ItsBeanyyy I've been there

    • @ItsBeanyyy
      @ItsBeanyyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@abeldelatorre1382 I can't even work here yet. Recently deported and I don't even speak Spanish. Really is difficult out here man

  • @The_Ostrich
    @The_Ostrich ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I'm Swiss and Switzerland is considered to be one of the if not the wealthiest and safest country in the world with very high education and basically zero corruption, and for us its always fascinating when we travel to 2nd and 3rd world countries we immediately see all the flaws within society and the system and thus know exactly what needs to be changed for it to "work". But there isn't much we can do, its impossible to change the mind set of a entire nation in just a snap. Its easy for a poor country to become wealthy (South Korea, Germany and Japan did it within 10 years after WW2), yet some countries have a very hard time achieving it because they themselves get in the way.

    • @patrickdunning6886
      @patrickdunning6886 ปีที่แล้ว

      They can't blame switzerland for any of their problems either. I am an australian of swiss-german ancestry and am proud to be a swiss australian but the amount of times we are forced to apologise for other countries wrong doings is bullshit.

    • @boniboni4912
      @boniboni4912 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well you have to take in consideration that many 3 world countries often are destabilized by more powerful countries with an agenda, and when it’s not another country it’s huge companies trying to make profit, (Nestle, Coca-Cola, fast fashion brands) check out the Chiquita banana thing they still have going on to this day, there are too many factors, it’s depressing 😢

    • @SunnyTacos
      @SunnyTacos ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's far easier to solve other people problems than your own, oh wait you are perfect nvm.

  • @luisnavarro1614
    @luisnavarro1614 2 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    Mucha gente suele decir que México podría ser más de no ser por los gobernantes, y si bien es cierto, no hay que echarle la culpa a solamente eso, por ejemplo, las razones que dio este chico

    • @venusflytrap9794
      @venusflytrap9794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      La cultura también lo es todo

    • @DogeSoleil
      @DogeSoleil 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Este men e sabio

    • @flyingonionring
      @flyingonionring 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Y las personas que no aportan y siguen pensando en poco

    • @JALUone1
      @JALUone1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hay varias razones como también pasa con otras naciones hermanas hispanas pero también gran parte se debe a EEUU ya que es lógico que no quieren ver a una potencia rival en el mismo continente, compartiendo fronteras y mucho menos con el desprecio indirecto a lo hispano a lo largo de su historia.

    • @josepedrogaleanogomez4870
      @josepedrogaleanogomez4870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Vi en otro comentario que estamos asi (toda latinoamerica) porque estuvimos en caos por mucho tiempo debido a toda las cosas que europa queria hacer aqui. Por ejemplo, cuando mexico gano su independencia, solo unos años despues se fue a guerra con EEUU por territorios. Entre eso tuvo que aguantar intentos de reconquista por parte de españa, y *encima* de eso DOS conquistas exitosas por parte de francia. Un pais simplemente no se puede desarrollar bien bajo esas condiciones. Y eso no solo en mexico, tambien en centroamerica (que fue sujeto de monopolios literales), y sudamerica que tambien tuvo su buena parte de caos en el asunto.
      Mexico, y latinoamerica en general, APARTE de toda esa basura, se perdio la revolucion industrial por estar bajo mandato español. Llego tarde a la fiesta, por asi decirlo. Simplemente no ha tenido suficiente tiempo para desarrollarse bien, como la india, o africa, que tienen historias similares, de colonialismo, guerras, caos y revoluciones. Una pena, la verdad, pero historia, historia es.

  • @julioaltamirano
    @julioaltamirano 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Im Mexican and I know we will rise. We are a new generation and we have ambitions, yes we can be a global power. As soon as the internal differences are solved and healed you'll se how powerful can we (Latinamericans actually) be.

    • @jackdannyels5059
      @jackdannyels5059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      not, you are in America not in mexico

    • @julioaltamirano
      @julioaltamirano 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@jackdannyels5059 don’t type while drunk

    • @gurvb
      @gurvb ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jackdannyels5059 solo por hablar inglés no significa que no seas mexicano

    • @jackdannyels5059
      @jackdannyels5059 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gurvb si pues

    • @jackdannyels5059
      @jackdannyels5059 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gurvb go Back paydro

  • @2burp2
    @2burp2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the US". -Porfirio Diaz

    • @sergiocruz1522
      @sergiocruz1522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Martinez wow what a beatiful last name is a russian last name 🤔a viking? from sweden 🤭

    • @aragornii507
      @aragornii507 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lmao turned into a blessing though

    • @soupfan1
      @soupfan1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sergiocruz1522 no it's spanish, but he's probably from south america

    • @ghostboy7076
      @ghostboy7076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Porfirio Diaz mejor presidente

    • @mariav.267
      @mariav.267 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hope it's about your personal perspectiv!

  • @Arceydelaborbolla
    @Arceydelaborbolla ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Spanish didn’t kept us poor. At the time of the mexican independence Mexico was richer than the US. US traded with the mexican peso $ hence the symbol. The casts were as in europe: Heraldic. Mexico had the first university, press and coin house in America, thanks to Spanish

  • @freddiesudell6118
    @freddiesudell6118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Super high quality video bro, keep it up!

  • @puppylove126
    @puppylove126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Aww, this video is too cute. I love the representation of Mexico and other countries as cute little round balls with eye's. I'm a California girl so Mexican influences are everywhere. I love Mexico and it's people, long live our little neighbor ❤ 🙏🏼

    • @Shuba-Shuba33
      @Shuba-Shuba33 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes I’m a mexican girl and all the history representation is really accurate and cute too!thank u!!

    • @puppylove126
      @puppylove126 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Shuba-Shuba33 I want it as a plushie ☺️

    • @puppylove126
      @puppylove126 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jay Iidd America is so big, but Mexico is much smaller now than what It used to be. Still a wonderful country, people and culture. ☺️💕💕💕

  • @Ouroboros_609
    @Ouroboros_609 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    In all honesty, this is actually impressive. This wholeheartedly explains the future on what growth means. Sure it may not be easy but damn well time will show results. I may not speak any Latin language at all but damn well I was raised like it. If there is one word for Mexico, it's growth. Like a forest, it will keep growing.

  • @Gac3la
    @Gac3la ปีที่แล้ว +12

    As a Mexican this video gave me hope. Sadly I won't be alive when a good change happens.

  • @annakobuk3618
    @annakobuk3618 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    From this 3 superpowers-to-be: Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, it is Mexico that looks the most optimistic now. Argentina is never ending financial crisis now, Brazil is too agricultural and corrupt, while Mexico, despite it's numerous problems, can benefit from where it is situated. Fingers crossed for this country. (With one of the coolest flags, btw) 😊

    • @santiagoornelas6756
      @santiagoornelas6756 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Imagine Canada USA and Mexico all being superpowers

    • @flyingonionring
      @flyingonionring ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@santiagoornelas6756and safer places, specially Mexico

    • @larryc1616
      @larryc1616 ปีที่แล้ว

      You forgot Mexico is #1 with cartels.

    • @HG-yy3cq
      @HG-yy3cq ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Argentina??? let me laugh

    • @flyingonionring
      @flyingonionring ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HG-yy3cq it’s rich in resources, and it’s a big country

  • @arielgaray302
    @arielgaray302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Also, another thing that unified the mexicans and the spaniards was mestizaje, "race mixing". Despite being religious fanatics, The spanish weren't as racist as the english or french, as they had had some experience with living with the moors. So when many spanish came to Mexico, especially the lower class ones, they married with the native women and thus resulted into what is now Mexico's majority mestizo population.

  • @eyeslikeajungle
    @eyeslikeajungle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    i find very endearing for you to speak about mexico with such an optimistic view, i wish i could share that perspective but everyday living here feels like watching a shit show; i can only hope for you to be right about everything you said in terms of our future, and thank you so much for making such a thorough research

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      One book I read talked about the Shale Revolution in the US, that as a byproduct is producing a lot of natural gas, which can be used to generate electricity. But it is hard to transport, the best method being pipes. And since a lot of the shale deposits are in Texas and the South, close to the border, the US may pipe cheap natural gas to Mexico to help with Industrial Growth. Especially as our relationship with China has gone down and we now want to keep things closer to home.

    • @PASTRAMIKick
      @PASTRAMIKick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yeah fellow mexican here from the north, total shit show

    • @rufusruffles
      @rufusruffles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Its on us, the young population to make things better, from Merida to Tijuana we should work for our country and future

    • @cesarpriego8380
      @cesarpriego8380 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let me guess,. you're no a deremeko!

    • @raymonddon8875
      @raymonddon8875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it only took china 50 years to be # 1 on the planet, any thing can be done. go mexico!!!!

  • @andrewd4413
    @andrewd4413 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There are way more indigenous tribes and peoples than the Aztecs so no it is not just a fusion of "Aztec and Spanish". There were the Maya peoples, Chichimeca peoples, Toltecs, and many other groups. Within those groups were subgroups like the Tlahuica were a subject peoples of the Aztecs.

  • @moistestslug5749
    @moistestslug5749 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Ive lived in mexico for a really long time and i am Mexican-American, although i live on one of the peninsulas and theres a lot more import and export from the see, it really is evident that we dont have any interest in expanding outward, most of the threats to our country are internal, and we just want more prosperity and less corruption

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Something unrelated. Today is the day the Constantinople Pogroms started (6th September 1955). In complete violation of the Lausanne Treaty, the Turkish government declared unequal taxation of the Greeks of Constantinople, and also banned Greek schools, hospitals, shops, churches and even prohibited the use of the Greek language in public places. Right after that, massive attacks on the Greek population, fueled by fascist rhetoric of the state and met with no reaction by the authorities led to the destruction of numerous monuments, private property and the deaths of thousands. From the 150.000 Greeks that were allowed to stay after 1923 and were there in 1955, only 5.000 were left after the events, a number that is by itself unsustainable and has been quickly reduced to 2.500 today.
    AND THEN Turkish government and media have the AUDACITY to claim Cyprus and parts of Greece because "the Turkish population faces persecution" or "Greece is not respecting the Lausanne Treaty".
    Shame on the Hypocrites.

    • @catholiccrusader5328
      @catholiccrusader5328 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      1955? You got your date wrong. Don't you mean the early part of the 20th century?

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@catholiccrusader5328 no. Well, you at least know the main part of the story. The early part of the 20th century featured the Anatolian and Pontic Greek genocides, measuring over one million dead and more than 1.5 million displaced civilians, many more dying as soon as they reached Greece or the Soviet Union from illness or starvation, thus not accounted either as dead in Turkey or as refugees in Greece. Of the 3 million strong Greek presence in Anatolia in 1900, hardly anything remained by 1925. But that was only the beggining of the end, one could say. Turkey's fascist government under Mustafa Kemal won, and thus the ultranationalists, racists and extremists reigned supreme in Turkey not simply as a government but as a mentality. The modern Turkish state hasn't been any better (if not outright worse) than the Ottoman Caliphate when it comes to handling Christian minorities. This is because in the Caliphate, the Christian could be Islamized, there was nothing wrong with his existence. But in the Turkish state, being a chirstian/Greek/Armenian/Assyrian, meant that you were genetically separate and alien, so there was no way to redeem yourself. You couldn't "convert" to a Turk, you just had to die or be sent away. The Istanbul pogrom shows exactly how this mentality prevailed. When Greece was weak from the Axis occupation and civil war, Turkey, with a system still fascist and with genocidal tendencies, started the extermination of the Constantinople Greeks. Under the provisions of the Treaty of Lausanne, Greece was to retain a Turkish minority of 75.000 in Thrace, and Turkey respectively a 125.000 strong community of Greeks in Constantinople/Istanbul, a historic center of Greek culture and civilization since the birth of Christ. Such a thing was accepted during the Caliphate, and the Patriarch remained in control of the Christians, while also subservient to the Caliph. Those 150.000 Greeks (their number had grown a bit since 1922) now had to face a huge extra tax and also attacking them or their property was made legal. The community dropped dramatically, as hundreds of people were killed and the state literally did nothing, and so many fled to Greece. Barely 4000 people remain, and they're so few (and their schools have been made illegal) that they can't continue their community. This was done in 1955 mind you, AFTER WW2. And many more horrible things, showing that Turkey hasn't actually changed unfortunately...

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @CJ with panturkist mustache thank you

    • @yurichtube1162
      @yurichtube1162 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We Kurds suffered the same evil, from the same people.

    • @JohnSmith-wx9wj
      @JohnSmith-wx9wj 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yurichtube1162 And they're in NATO!

  • @brazilinwwii4960
    @brazilinwwii4960 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    O México tem muito potêncial para ser uma grande nação, realmente me impressionou do que é composta a economia e tudo que geralmente não se vê em um país subdesenvolvido.
    Saludos desde Brasil hermaños...

    • @ultrontechmaster2463
      @ultrontechmaster2463 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Obrigado irmao brasileiro

    • @DrCury448
      @DrCury448 ปีที่แล้ว

      Que?

    • @evsgo95
      @evsgo95 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nem falar de que etsa composto a economia do Brasil né 80% agronomia

  • @MG-wm9kq
    @MG-wm9kq ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mexico has so many problems I know the us does too but we don’t have militarized gangs rolling around with tanks/ armored suvs literally waring with their national army and as the country develops the cartel will just have more ways to launder money more ways to invest and then make more money and gain more power so until that gets resolved Mexico will remain a developing nation…. It’s a shame it’s such a beautiful country

  • @javierbaeza2668
    @javierbaeza2668 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    As a young Mexican, I am happy to know that I will be able to see my country as an economic and tourist power, and a good quality of life. always in my country we have been the ones that dominate the most in Latin America with our Culture, Food, History, Traditions, Cinema, Novels, Series, Tourism, Dances, Voice Dubbing, Music and Artists such as Luis Miguel, Pedro Infante and José José who have left Mexico at the top, also Guillermo del Toro, Frida Kahlo, Hugo Sanchez, Canelo Alvarez are Mexicans who have left us at the top. Movies like Coco also speak of the power of our traditions, as well as the Aztecs, Mayans, Toltecs, I think I could not finish writing that my country has too much to have been a power for many years but it is just beginning and it makes me excited that my children will live their childhood in a first world Mexico. Thanks for having informed you well since Hollywood always makes Mexico look like a desert country and I thought I was going to do the same with your video.

    • @soupfan1
      @soupfan1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@antxv713 what about food? I can eat tacos forever

  • @cristinagomez3283
    @cristinagomez3283 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I'm Mexican, and this video really makes me feel good about my ethnicity. I've always wanted to see where Mexico was going.

    • @jhonklan3794
      @jhonklan3794 ปีที่แล้ว

      If only you guys took some responsibility.

    • @cristinagomez3283
      @cristinagomez3283 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jhonklan3794 we really need to.

  • @wndGGaRkGBKpXvM6NWHGOeMJv
    @wndGGaRkGBKpXvM6NWHGOeMJv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Great video - I love your optimism.
    As a US Citizen who has lived and traveled around Mexico for several years, I view modern corruption as the key barrier to Mexican growth.
    The distinctly Spanish labor force caste system you describe at 3:50 is very much alive and well in the form of modern corruption. Corruption takes the shape of nepotism, patronage, cronyism, influence peddling, and graft.
    This causes many of the best and the brightest who aren't the beneficiaries of this corruption (often due to happenstance of birth) to go to the US, or seek black market opportunity (creating a narcostate). As a result, the business and political leaders of Mexico are often massively unqualified for their roles, while the high potential individuals are misallocated.
    Mexico must focus on rejecting corruption and encouraging meritocracy to achieve the exciting growth described in the video.

    • @ricardoespinoza6911
      @ricardoespinoza6911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and also the 🇺🇸 dictating and imposing its will on 🇲🇽 for example the current Gov wants to reform the energy sector to produce cheaper energy I don't know what interest the us has in that bussines but they are pushing so it doesn't happen

    • @timisaac8121
      @timisaac8121 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hehehe. You must let us know where you live and how the corruption is going in your country. Here in Mexico, we all know corruption is real. They even pray about it in Churches. In USA, they are far more willing to either be corrupt right out in the open (no one dares call it) or is hidden, such as lawyers and judges paid off in the USA drug trade!! Hahaha. I can hear you recoiling now!! Who do you think handled the actual product El Chapo moved to USA?? lol

  • @gamalielmartinez2238
    @gamalielmartinez2238 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I know you say dessert in the whole north but it’s mainly comprised of valley closer to the mountain which makes the land fertile and everywhere you look around is green. It’s honestly really beautiful

  • @minxgalinx6852
    @minxgalinx6852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Mexico’s geography heavily sets her back from becoming a strong unified identity and economy. Each region is isolated from each other thus each region develops it’s own economy and identity. Such rugged terrain also makes it harder for the government to keep everything under control and easier for rogue groups like the cartels to easily operate under the radar.

    • @FloresRain
      @FloresRain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Never saw it this way. Very interesting

    • @tonygallegosdelara340
      @tonygallegosdelara340 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thats why Texas became independient from México, comunication was so poor that their ideals made them become independient.

    • @angelgjr1999
      @angelgjr1999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Mexico is currently making a train/transit system to unite all of its major cities. Let’s hope it works out well. I think Mexico City and Guadalajara are already well connected.

    • @bloodshotred6334
      @bloodshotred6334 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Absolutely. It's no wonder Mexicans have nicknames based on what their main industry is, like if you're from zacatecas you're a nopalero, Sinaloa is tomateros, jalisco is tequileros etc

    • @marco1173
      @marco1173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Aldo-en This national identity is much stronger than it used to be, but there are still differences. That's why it is said it's not one Mexico, it's many little Mexicos. Also, why its political organization is a federal republic, as opposed to a unitary system.

  • @lucasbismara4231
    @lucasbismara4231 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Love to Mexico from Brazil

  • @Ur-bad-_-if-i
    @Ur-bad-_-if-i 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Social inequality is so true. I went to Mexico for the first time in October/November. I went to visit where my parents grew up in the middle of no where. Long story short my grandma was entering the airport and the lady (security?) working there told her it’s too full and she can’t enter (bruh what?) while other people were walking by entering the airport. She was wearing her traditional village clothes. I would’ve walked up and said something but I couldn’t take the risk of getting kicked out from the airport as I was flying home

    • @shiroumxm2052
      @shiroumxm2052 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i hate those SOAB at the airport

  • @slavko7898
    @slavko7898 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    cartel corrupt police corrupt politicians saved you a click