How can you explain the disparity between Japan and Mexico? -

Japan is a nation a fraction the size of Mexico, with zero natural resources, that suffered a devastating war of four years that included two atom bombs, but it has reached the highest in educational achievements, technological advancements and economic power. Then there is Mexico, a much larger nation that has suffered no wars since the Revolution, is rich in natural resources and hard-working people, next door to the most powerful nation in the world, but its only achievement is becoming the most corrupt nation in the Western Hemisphere and digging drug tunnels into the U.S. What say you?

I have heard it so many times from Mexican people all they want is their little job and that is enough, they are not ambitious in any way, they have had as much time as the United States to build their country and they had an ambitious neighbor to the north to help them, but it didn t do any good, they are not as hard working as people portray them to be, Japan had our help we were their for 13 years after the war. But I don t think Mexico ever asked for help. Their government is very corrupt and they never get prosecuted for it, because everyone is doing it, from the cop on the beat to the very top. Some of our officials are also corrupt but if they get caught they get prosecuted and are punished for it. I don t think the Mexican media is as ambitious and as vicious as ours, our media is always digging for corrupt officials, so they can be the first to report it, in Mexico I don t think it is that way, maybe they will be killed if they report on corrupt officials. Normgarry..... your statement is ridiculous, and I new Angela R would agree.

Great answer normgarry, very well thought out....I agree with you....Your right about Japanese.....They are elitist and they would NEVER marry outside there own race.....

Very simple. Japanese are the quot;white peoplequot; among Asians and Mexicans are Brown skinned. Every Asian country KNOWS Japan is a elitist, classist, RACIST country (ala WW2 treatment of the Chinese and southeast Asia) therefore us Whites in America and the Japanese got along just fine once they realized they were subordinant to White supremacy. Mexicans are brown skinned. A raped nation by European imperialism who is kept seperated (segregated) from White America (unlike white skinned Canada). Mexicans don t have their own car industry either. Only the White nations in this hemisphere can be allowed to prosper. Everyone else must stay in a cycle of poverty or simply: quot;secondratednessquot;

good question. i can t explain it.

Japan has more water.

In Japanese culture, honor and standing in society means a lot. This is why in ancient times Japanese people would rather commit harakiri (suicide) instead of losing face to an opponent. This is also the reason why the work ethic is exceptional- they take pride in their work. They wouldn t dream of having their name associated with shoddy workmanship. They are also very competitive. I guess this mentality helped make Japan a very rich nation.

Mexico is BY FAR not the most corrupt country in the Western Hemispere. Look up stuff about Columbia, Peru, Venezula, Guyana, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay, and Boliva. Besides the most corrupt in the western hemisphere is the United States of America.

I agree I just dont get why the excuse is always lack of education! There has to be opportunities there or no one would have a means to live at all! I agree with you completely

Actually we covered this topic in my Macroeconomics class. For starters across the world statistically the countries that are wealthiest in natural resources have no incentive to educate their workforce, because it s easy just to export the resources. Japan, who has few natural resources has to depend on importing those resources and processing them in order to survive, which requires greater technological achievements and education levels. As far as Mexico goes they have a poorly developed physical infrastructure (few good roads, etc), and corruption, and all sorts of other problems, so anyone they do educate to a higher level ends up bolting the country to somewhere they can get paid more than they can get paid in Mexico, so the cycle continues.

I personally think they are all inbred.

TRADITION amp; family ethics. NUFF SAID

Is a puzzlement...

the lack of the will power to do it

Interesting comparison. I wonder if it has anything to do with the evolution of their civilizations. The Shogun dynasties evolved into Japan s parlimentary system while the Aztec, Toltec, and Mayan civilizations seemed to have mysteriously vanished leaving a void for hundreds of years. I d say culture had a strong role to play in this disparity!

It is because of their quot;Japan spiritquot;. How about the other nations which US was concerned with? Iraq, Afgn, Korea, Vietnam. Today Korea and Vietnam are much better. cos they can go one thier own way.

Simple answer.. Japan has people with ambition... Mexico doesn t

I say the Japanese were mutated in to superior intellect by the radioactive fallout.

Coming to this question late, I m absolutely astounded nobody pointed out the obvious answer: The Marshall Plan! We rebuilt the whole darn country and paid for it.

Bad comparison!!! Why don t you compare China to Japan?? How about Canada to Japan?? How about India to Japan??? Japan is an island that was isolated for hundreds of years and has never been conquered like Mexico was. Besides both cultures have their faults. The governments in Mexico has always been corrupt. Japan commited horrible atrocities against the Chinese. And after we dropped the A-bomb on Japan, we helped them with billions of dollars of aid.....very typical.