Needing Mexico
In his short post “Mexico: U.S. Totem” on Secret History, Jason Dormandy hits on one reason “The United States desperately needs Mexico, and I’m NOT talking about trade and labor”:
I consider the general U.S. obsession with Mexico as a place to get cheap and easy sex and booze as serving as something of the same function as Carnival serves in Latin America. Americans take a few days to blow off some steam before returning to the norms of society – at least in their minds. Once more, the presence of an “outside” entity allows U.S. citizens to consider themselves more saintly at home than they really are, letting them address issues of consumption and sexuality they would otherwise be unwilling to address.
I wonder if this doesn’t also have something to do with our obsession with Mexico as “A Dangerous Place” (the title of a one of the worst books ever written about Mexico, by the way) — our need to project our own phobias about our carnal nature onto the “other” — something dark, mysterious and tinged with evil.
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Sounds like Mr Fleetwood doesn’t like anything without the humor of it