I have changed a lot in the past weeks, I just realized that the differency between the culture in the united states and Mexico is huge. Now, I can easily explain to myself why the United States is so powerful. First of all, is all about culture, the way kids are raised in the United States makes that "Difference" between first and third world countries. In addition, mexican culture is more of "pass over" rather than help your neigborhood. An in despite of the mexican believe that the government is the problem, the reality is that they do not realize that public servers are mexicans themselves, which shows where truly is the source of the problem. Finally, certainly all of that could be changed, but it would take more time than is actually expected.
In united states you hold the door to the people behind you, you allow others to pass first than you; in mexico, you walk faster to pass before those behind you, and you do not care about hold the door open, because is "their problem". Actually, this sentence synthesise and gives a big idea about mexicans. In mexico, at work mexicans do not have the will of help your coworkers, in fact, mexicans neither want to help their boss nor they want to help they business grow. That's why the economic is poor, -work is for work, not for facebook-. Yes, it sounds hilarous, and it is. Mexicans haven't noticed that the way to advanced is in the social effort, to do waht they bosses do so their enterprise would be better and grow and produce more jobs for other people. To make money with effort rather than stealing from others. If mexicans helped each other or wanted the society to grow as a whole, the reality would be other. I know there are mexicans that know this, but they are not the majority.
Mexicans strongly believe that if you take all of the government and changed them for other random mexican people, all will be better, because the problem is "the government". In fact this is not true, all will be equal, mexican people have a mexican government. We are raised with the ideal that people who hold public places just steale money from the people, so when those kids grow, they know that if you are in government you are going to steale money, because that's the way it is. This idea go back to the colonization times where the crown of spain stole all the precious metals it could stole, and those structural organizations of the government have been inherited and prevailed since then.
And all of that could be changed, but it is required that lots of mexicans believe in it. I do not want to die without being in a new mexico, I decided to dedicate my life if necessary to change mexico's panorama. I have see the potential, but I needed to leave the country to think out of the box. It was necessary for me to see how other countries works in order to understand how to change mexico, and probably something similar is required to do with the rest of the mexicans. But unfortunately, not everybody can go to other country. I had have the bless that my father is a hard and smart worker, which have made my family relatively wealthy for the typical mexican (in fact, here in the United States I would been considered upper middle class by my parents education but lower middle class by their incomes). And these allowed me to attend to one of the better schools in Mexico, -with a little of help of a partial scolarschip-. But I didn't decided to be like these, is also true that I have always be smart, but in fact, there are many smart mexican students that could not attend to a school that explodes their potential and that have change their goals for ones more affordable. It was a privilege that I have had. Because all of the above, it is my obligation to fight for mexicans, to work for change mexicans and Mexico, because it would be stupid if I don't do it. My possibilities to make a change are tremendous, and I do not want to be a waste. If have been in special circumstances and I am relatively successful (in terms of my age -scolarships, academical competitions ...-) is my obligation to help the other mexico to beliefe they also can do it, and help them do it. It maybe sounds crazy now, but I want to help education in Mexico, and I want to make it my goal of life. If I would need money, I would make bussineses and do it, if I would need to go and live in the poorest places, I would do it. Because if mexicans like me who have the chance to change Mexico don't do it, how do we want to go out of the hole?
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