Assignment One White

1) There are a few aspects of Mexico’s culture that I find disturbing. The first aspect was that the Mexican police can not be trusted to do the very job that they were appointed to do. They are supposed to be helping the community and the citizens but all they are doing is worsening it for a quick buck. The next aspect that I find disturbing about the Mexican culture is that the drug dealers are resorting to other methods to gain substantial amounts of money. So what if the police shut off the drug and kidnapping industry what would these violent criminals resort to next?

1b.) How could the corrupted police not be discovered by their co-workers or their families?

2) This incident doesn’t really change my view of Mexico as a whole. In every country there are corrupted officials and illegal activity going on so a few people should not have that great of an affect on how you think of a country as a whole. What if people based what they thought about America by all the insider trading and the scandals that went on in the past. You can’t judge a country based on what a few citizens do, you need to judge a country as a whole.

2b) I have been to Cancun and Juarez Mexico. When I went to Cancun Mexico we stayed on a resort and it was safe to walk the streets at night and I wasn’t walking around thinking that someone might kidnap or even kill me. But when I went to Juarez Mexico it was a very poverty stricken place and the crime rate was way higher although I did not fear for my life, although I was definitely more careful in Juarez than I was in Cancun.

3) Although this situation would have an impact on me as a Mexican citizen, it wouldn’t make me live my life in fear. After hearing about situations like this I would take more precautions to stay safe and keep myself out of harms way. I think that the Mexicans feelings are not as strong as the feelings Americans had after 9/11. After 9/11 we as Americans thought that there could be another major terrorist attack like on the white house or some other really important monument. But the feeling these Mexicans are feeling is more personal and they are afraid for their families but not afraid as a nation.