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Mexico and the Mexicans
Knopf
May 2011
On Sale: May 17, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0375404244
EAN: 9780375404245
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but
deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in
skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as
victims, but also love victims? And why, though the Mexican
people traditionally avoid conflict, is there so much
violence in a country where many leaders have died by
assassination? In this shrewd and fascinating book, the renowned scholar
and former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda sheds much light
on the puzzling paradoxes of his native country. Here’s a
nation of 110 million that has an ambivalent and complicated
relationship with the United States yet is host to more
American expatriates than any country in the world. Its
people tend to resent foreigners yet have made the nation a
hugely popular tourist destination. Mexican individualism
and individual ties to the land reflect a desire to conserve
the past and slow the route to uncertain modernity. Castañeda examines the future possibilities for Mexico as it
becomes more diverse in its regional identities, socially
more homogenous, its character and culture the instruments
of change rather than sources of stagnation, its political
system more open and democratic. Mañana Forever? is a
compelling portrait of a nation at a crossroads.
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