Top Gear Mexico Scandal From a Mexican Point of View

I'm from Mexico, I don't believe in patriotism, thus I am not either proud or a shame of my country. Because countries are just spaces of land and that's pretty much it. You live in this space of this land and I live in this space of this land and that's it. Regarding of the independent culture of every country, well sure every country has their own culture and traditions but that doesn't makes us a different race of people, we all are humans, we all are sometimes shitty people,  we all are sometimes good people, we all are sometimes loving people regarding what fucking nationality we are. We all are from the same race and we all pretty much live in this same space that is divided into lands.

We live in a big world, thus there are a lot of countries with a lot of cultures, and just with this is enough for stereotypes to rise.  I don't hate stereotypes because they really not worth hating. Stereotypes are just simple satirical cartoonish jokes... and that's it, they are just a work of satire, and satire is what makes this cynical world so beautiful, and if there's someone who doesn't love satire... well then those people really are missing a lot and don't appreciate this weird ugly/beautiful world for how it really is.



As we all know, Top Gear a British TV Show, made racist and stereotypical jokes about the mexican culture, and that really cause a great controversy. But what many of us (mexicans) didn't knew at the time, is that, this is the type of humor that this guys like to roll with it. They love universal satire, they had may fun of Germans, Romanians, Homosexual people, Mental people, the British Prime Minister even their own fans.  http://bit.ly/fq6Zmw

And now it was our turn. In my personal point of view about the video, i really didn't care, i though some of those jokes were funny, but i really didn't care, because let's face it, this country, our country, our piece of land is falling apart, this country is falling deeper and deeper in the shit we have created and we must accept it. 2010 was the most violent year in Mexico's history since the fucking revolution back in 1910.

So yea, my country is in a really shitty situation right now, we must accept it and at least try to do something about it, at least try to make Mexico a little safer and peaceful place. But what do we do instead: we defend our fucking pride.

OF COURSE

Inside this country are mexicans killing mexicans and not one single mexican does anything about it. Uffff but if a foreign  just makes a satirical commentary about our culture, uffff we want his fucking head. What the fuck is wrong with us? Our country is falling apart and we are concerning for what a bunch of british hosts said about the mexican culture.

But this is the interesting and funny aspect about most of us. We love to say shit about our country, we love to say shit about ourselves, we even love to stereotype ourselves. I love to say stereotypical jokes about my country and so as my friends, and so as most of the people in here.



If a Mexican throes shit to Mexico, is OK, is fine. But if a foreign says exactly what another mexican said about his culture, we most kick his sorry ass.  That is just how it is, is sad, sad but true.

Which is ironic because we love satire, we love stereotypes, we love to make fun of other people, other countries, other cultures we love racist humor.



So yea, honestly, is ridiculous seen so many people whining and whining about this kind of humor when we love it to. We must stop whining about what other people says and start caring about our own situation and forget pride, forget that shit, pride is useless such as dumb patriotism, if you really love your country, you will do anything possible to make it a better place that is real love for you country.  Instead of whining of what other people said because it hurt our pride, when we have some much more important shit to deal with.