On Mexican Nationalism

Imagine you live in a country where your president's legacy is based on how easily he made it for people like you to leave the country, and to be granted citizenship in another country. We need not imagine. I speak of Mexico, of course. I read somewhere (I can't quite remember where) that in some towns in Mexico, there is both an astonishingly low amount of men (who have gone north of the border), and an astonishingly high--something like 125%--percent of income that is sent by family members in the U.S. So, if you think immigration is a problem for us, think about the problem of emigration in Mexico, where the ideology of escape has completely replaced any remnants of the nationalist ideologies of the late 19th and 20th century.