This was posted on the SB Forum. http://www.click2houston.com/video/22575596/index.html Sorry, but I am starting to hate the US more and more every year. I hope I never go back. They just think life there is perfect.....like it's Pleasantville. Give me a break.
Looks like little more than a shallow attempt to justify an all expenses paid vacation for a few reporters to me... what was that about not throwing stones in a glass house? I guess they expect Mexico to start imprisoning everyone for life like the US is doing.. since that works so well to solve societies problems.
Typical media dramatization - seems to happen every year before Spring Break, especially. For what it's worth: At least once in every trip I've taken to Mexico in the last 8 years (Cancun, Veracruz, Zacatecas, Baja) I was offered drugs of some sort when going out for a night on the town. It's not like the new law radically changed things, in my eyes. For what it's worth part 2: Every single time I go out in a major US city, I also get offered drugs of some nature. That includes mid-sized cities in the Midwest (KC, Minneapolis) and larger cities out West (SF, LA, Seattle.) In my humble experience, if you are going out to have a good time in any city, be it in Mexico, the US, or wherever, you're going to come across drug peddlers.
I think that video is hilarious. WTF do parents think their kids are coming here for in the first place? Do they think people come here to read the bible? Or study calculus?
Agreed!!! BUT, a majority of Americans seem to think it doesn't happen like that. If it isn't being reported, they won't believe it. That is why people are so brain washed there..left, right...they are so narrow minded it's ridiculous. And I know 5 hotels right now that are at 60% occupancy, and the workers there are suffering. We need tourists, not more scare tactics. And they work. I know tons of people that changed their plans to come here last winter/spring and summer. I got tired of trying to talk sense into people.
Maybe sing Kumbaya? The part that made me laugh was the 'on top of binge drinking, now your kids will be binge drinking and getting lit'....like that's not an everyday occurrence in a typical University. My conspiracy theory: hotel owners in South Padre/Daytona Beach/etc. have media connections which they use to try and convince parents to pay for a 'safer' Spring Break on the home front.
The thing is, they weren't interviewing "kids". They were getting adults to talk about their encounters. I am not very happy about this.
I have to say the video is hilarious as well. Have they never walked the streets of Ft.Lauderdale at night? Miami? Same shit, different country. Obviously people are buying it - otherwise it wouldn't be offered. Parents dont' seriously think they are doing it here, and not at home do they? I don't do drugs, so I don't care if I get asked. There's nothing I can do about it. If ppl stopped buying it, they'd stop selling you it. I agree with Coby to a certain extent. It's better for the US economy altogether if these students stayed on home turf and visited Daytona Beach instead. Tori - I have also given up trying to change ppls minds of Mexico. Cancun in particular. Drives me crazy, and gets me wound up. So for the most part have given up...that's as long as I can keep my big mouth shut!
To some degree Mexico and Cancun deserve the bad rep. Officials here can't control the cartel violence (b/c Govt corruption here is out of control) so Mexico has a rep for being dangerous. And Cancun bills itself as party-central, so it can't very well get whiny when ppl point out how easy it is to, um, party here. But I think the real problem is that people want to label Mexico or Cancun as simply dangerous, or simply bereft of morality when in fact all of this is complex, not simple. Mexico would not be overrun with drug cartel violence if the Gringos weren't buying the drugs and if the Gringos weren't so happy to sell guns. So Mexico gets looked down on when in many way the things it's looked down on for are a direct result of Gringos being greedy junkies with lax gun laws. (That was fun to write.) In other words the Gringos should look in the frickin' mirror.
First it was binge drinking. Now it's easy availability of drugs. Next thing you'll know, those kids will be coming down here for... sex! What will we do then?
