Mexico Now and Always!!!!

Mexico Now and Always!!!! Now that I have spend quite a few days exploring Mexico and visiting the many angles of it. I have come to understand it and will try not to make sense of it. In Mexico, there are patterns to things and nothing makes sense...you just have to accept your ¨reality¨ and things as they are. There are alot of similarities between Mexico and the US, non the less. What do I mean by that? Well, as far as education goes, they are both pretty similar. How? In the U.S. and in Mexico, there is a certain type of individual who makes it to College and makes something out of him\her self. Things are not much different here in Mexico I found. The biggest difference between the two countries is that Mexico openly states that the private schools are not for everyone. In fact, they openly tell you that if you can´t afford them they are not for you. In the U.S. it is pretty much the same. You got money you can get into a good school. Universities here in Mexico are always in the search of talent much like in the U.S. They also have scholarships dedicated to students who really excell in school. An administrator at the UDEM told me that it did not matter if you were a fresa( snob) or came to schoool in Huaraches(meanding you were indigenous) so long as you were producing it did not matter where you came from. I thought that was pretty funy. Because although it may be true that it did not matter to them that the student was not Fresa (or at least of the upper class), why should it? Right? But as weird as it may seem, some of the rich, feel that they are doing a good deed by alowing some mixing between the lower and upper class. I found that to be weird. Heres is one other consept that I found pretty interesting. I found out that once a lower class student(mostly indigenous children) is taken into a private university. The student has already been selected froma group of about 20 other students who were evaluated psycologically. They go through a number of steps to assure that the student will be able to adapt to the new system and will not flunk. I found this process to be both helpful and intrusive. It is true that students who are alient to an environement need to be introduced to the new system and be protected a little bit. On the other hand, I feel it is highly introsive and unethical to put the students through such process. So...why have I title this entry ¨Mexico now and always¨ Because from the begining poverty and power have been recycled. That is the way things work here. When you ask anyone what kind of careers do students from private universities aspire you will always hear¨high end¨possitions. If you ask the students from private universities, you will hear a mix, but mostly is labor and line work. People who never go to school seen to be mostly poor or have made a living out of a business. This people who are selfemployed will never, ever, ever make it to the ¨high class¨ Sad but true....Mexico Now and Always.