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How can there be a racist game, when I already said that I believe everyone is "racist" and even just a tad bit xenophobic (ethnocentric is indeed a more correct term, but I'll use both here), including myself?
Clearly, that's your opinion. However, if I think the current US administration sucks, that doesn't automatically extend into "all Americans suck." It means Bush sucks, in my opinion, and it stops there. I can't believe I am even having to clarify this argument...

You're also neglecting the role of international trade agreements, farm subsidies, colonial leftover crap, and all the rest of the complicated strands that must be part of any explanation of why some countries are poorer than others. Of course some of that has to do with the faults of the political system and the administration of the country, but that's certainly not a condition limited to Mexico. We are all in a world system here (see Wallerstein), and it operates according to certain rules to maintain the status quo.

The quality of the residents of a country has nothing to do with that country's Gini coefficient. I don't think anyone in their right mind would believe that the shitty administration of a country makes everyone who lives in that country equivalent to shit. It certainly contributes to making a shitty quality of life for those people, as I've said repeatedly, but if you think that automatically makes the people themselves shit... well, wow. We're obviously not going to get anywhere on this discussion, surprise surprise.

Meanwhile, Pan is still going on about being called a racist. If this thread is really what you say it is about, could you respond to my post back there, which was actually responding to your OP (#38)?

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