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You might want to visit Mexico City one day, and listen to the music played there. From what you've said above I doubt you've been there.
Nobody's ever been to Mexico except you. Your response to every post is to lord it over people and say they've never been there.
You don't have to go to Los Angeles, to see how Los Angeles culture has influenced America, nor to see how other parts of the USA have retained their own pockets of non-californicated culture.
Mexico City is the most globalized, and therefore the least Mexican, place in the republic, and no thanks, I might NOT want to visit Mexico City one day.
Re: cartel music, so what? American Country Music has been taken over by Flag-waving Gun-toting Hate-mongering War-loving conservatism, too, but that doesn't detract from the legitimacy of the genre as a bulwark against urban shlock (which glorifies a cultural posture no better than the cartels) and country music remains representative of a deeper-based culture which doesn't necessarily subscribe to the lyrical sentiments.
Nobody's ever been to Mexico except you. Your response to every post is to lord it over people and say they've never been there.
True, when someone posts comments which I believe have no basis in fact or reality. Such as this:
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Mexico City is the most globalized, and therefore the least Mexican, place in the republic, and no thanks, I might NOT want to visit Mexico City one day.
Least Mexican? Get real. Now I suspect you haven't traveled in Mexico at all, Because if you have you would understand how off the wall such a statement sounds/is.
Mexico City is the most globalized, and therefore the least Mexican, place in the republic, and no thanks, I might NOT want to visit Mexico City one day.
I don't know how anyone can say that Mexico City is the least Mexican place in Mexico. There are only 72,000 foreigners living in Mexico City, a city of over 8 million people, not counting the Metro area!
Tourism is not even the driving force of Mexico City's economy.
There -- you did it again. It's like a nervous tic you have.
Since you've never been to Mexico City, about which you've been offering opinoins ... I'll wish you a good evening, no matter on which planet you find yourself.
Since you've never been to Mexico City, about which you've been offering opinoins ... I'll wish you a good evening, no matter on which planet you find yourself.
There is a virus in your computer. It scans forums, and wherever it finds the word "Mexico", it posts a message under your login name that says "You've never been to Mexico". Nothing else, no explanations or arguments or data, just "You've never been to Mexico". You might want to get that looked into.
Nobody's ever been to Mexico except you. Your response to every post is to lord it over people and say they've never been there.
You don't have to go to Los Angeles, to see how Los Angeles culture has influenced America, nor to see how other parts of the USA have retained their own pockets of non-californicated culture.
Mexico City is the most globalized, and therefore the least Mexican, place in the republic, and no thanks, I might NOT want to visit Mexico City one day.
Re: cartel music, so what? American Country Music has been taken over by Flag-waving Gun-toting Hate-mongering War-loving conservatism, too, but that doesn't detract from the legitimacy of the genre as a bulwark against urban shlock (which glorifies a cultural posture no better than the cartels) and country music remains representative of a deeper-based culture which doesn't necessarily subscribe to the lyrical sentiments.
How can you never want to visit Mexico City with it's museums such as the Museum of Anthropology, Ballet Folklorico, the University, Chapultepec?
It's the government and cultural center of Mexico. The religious capitol as well. You cannot claim Mexico City has the most foreign influence and pretend that northern states have none, even the norteno music sound was most influenced by German polkas.
As for cartel music, the norteno narcocorridas, they recruit killers, glorify the hitmen as well as the criminal jefes and their greed and lust for power that are destroying Mexico.
How can you never want to visit Mexico City with it's museums such as the Museum of Anthropology, Ballet Folklorico, the University, Chapultepec?
If I went to Surinam or Mauritania or Turkmenistan or Nauru and all I saw was the museum, the university, a city park and a troop of well-trained professional dancers in traditional costumes, I would consider that a trip wasted. Those are exactly the things I avoid when traveling, for they offer no reflection at all on what the country truly is at its heart.
Imagine meeting someone abroad who told you "Yes, I know America well. I took a Gray Line tour of the NY Museum of Natural History, Columbia University, a performance of Copeland's "Rodeo" and Central Park".
I've been to Mexico City more times that I would ever wish to, and seen absolutely nothing there that would inspire me to ever want to go back there again. The world consists of more wonders than its museums and universities and theatrical performances and manicured grounds of its urban parks.
Last edited by jtur88; 05-04-2012 at 09:13 AM..
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