04.23.06
America and Americans are by nature meddlesome
Fred Reed has a humorous but truthful take about Americans and Mexicans in his latest piece: Don’t Blame Mexico
At the national level the US tries to impose democracy, change “regimes,” and dictate social policy in all sorts of countries. At the level of the individual, Americans, certainly those in Mexico, try to pass leash laws, make horses wear diapers, regulate smoking, and set closing hours for bars. Neither the US nor most of its people grasp that some things are simply not their business.
This is exemplified in shoving down contraception and population control in the 3rd world. Our sex lives and reproductive organs are none of your business to pollute and sabotage with your “contraceptive donations.”
