This article explores three spheres of interdependence between United States and Mexico. The first is the financial relationship, and how Mexico can be seen as dependent on US third-party aid. the second point is the relationship between the Mexican people and the American people. Thus, considering the intracultural and economic relationship, it is possible to establish a historical analysis of the relationship between these neighboring countries.
Carson’s text begins with some exterotypes about the way Mexicans work, that is, he seeks to say that, unlike Americans, Mexicans are more dependent on the government, therefore making them unproductive in relation to other global peoples. This first point says a lot about how American business can cause problems with places, not by chance, the article mentions the context of the Mexican revolution, which in part is involved with the US-Mex relationship and the presidency of Porfirio Diaz and his police approaching the North Americans. The author also talks about the “superiority” of goods produced by the American people, saying that after a decade of investments, Mexico can now enjoy better infrastructure, more American banks, and more services of various calibers such as druggists and booksellers. On the other hand, the author also identifies a certain level of ignorance on the part of Americans, he reports that due to geographical issues and considering the lower access to information at the time, Americans contemplated Mexican culture.
Finally, the author also explains that he sees an inflection point between the bilateral relations of these North American countries, which follows that the US-Mex relations are drawn closely together. However, the author does not recognize this approach as being part of a more primitive version of globalization, but rather as an argument for the expansion of the American Empire, where he states that “an Americanized Mexico should some day…became peacefully annexed to the United States”. What within the logic of the text seems to me to be in parts antagonistic to the prejudices exposed about Mexican culture and how Anglo-Saxon culture behaves better in other aspects. In this way, I conclude that the author seeks to justify the economic, cultural, and political integration of nations as an effect of imperialism and not of the interdependence of states.
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