Mexican United States

[AmyNation]

"It's the one fact about Mexico that you probably didn't know. The country's name is not really Mexico, at least not officially. After gaining independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico officially became the "Mexican United States....outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday sent to the Mexican Congress a piece of legislation to change the country's name officially to simply Mexico."

KDBC 4 CBS: Mexico Might Finally Make Name Change Offical

Weird.

 

[Oldguy]

"It's the one fact about Mexico that you probably didn't know. The country's name is not really Mexico, at least not officially. After gaining independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico officially became the "Mexican United States....outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday sent to the Mexican Congress a piece of legislation to change the country's name officially to simply Mexico."

KDBC 4 CBS: Mexico Might Finally Make Name Change Offical

Weird.

That's bullshit. The official name is "The United Mexican States."

They are united and have been since at least 1821.

Got a problem with that?

 

[House]

Can you really blame them for not wanting anyone to mistakenly affiliate their fine, upstanding country with ours?

 

[AmyNation]

"It's the one fact about Mexico that you probably didn't know. The country's name is not really Mexico, at least not officially. After gaining independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico officially became the "Mexican United States....outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday sent to the Mexican Congress a piece of legislation to change the country's name officially to simply Mexico."

KDBC 4 CBS: Mexico Might Finally Make Name Change Offical

Weird.

That's bullshit. The official name is "The United Mexican States."

They are united and have been since at least 1821.

Got a problem with that?

Been drinking?

 

[AmyNation]

Can you really blame them for not wanting anyone to mistakenly affiliate their fine, upstanding country with ours?

Lol! Seriously!

 

[GoneBezerk]

Mexifornia

 

[Oldguy]

Been drinking?

No. Have you?

 

[AmyNation]

No. Have you?

Little bit.

 

[GuyPinestra]

Can you really blame them for not wanting anyone to mistakenly affiliate their fine, upstanding country with ours?

A rather high percentage of their population already has, it seems...

 

[Oldguy]

Little bit.

That's not really surprising, given that the link you posted gets the official name of Mexico bass-ackwards and then you build something (?) off that.

What's your point, anyhow?

 

[AmyNation]

That's not really surprising, given that the link you posted gets the official name of Mexico bass-ackwards and then you build something (?) off that.

What's your point, anyhow?

I'm sorry the story has an error. Perhaps you should email the writer and let them know. Although the error has no real impact on the story.

The point was Mexico is attempting to change their name to disassociate with the US.

In announcing his decision to propose officially changing his country's name, Calderon said Thursday the name Mexican United States was originally taken because back in 1824 the United States of America was an example of democracy and liberty for the new independent nations in the Americas.
"It's time that we Mexicans retake the beauty and simplicity of our motherland's name: Mexico. "

I thought it was amusing since Mexico is a bit of a shit hole.

 

[WillowTree]

"It's the one fact about Mexico that you probably didn't know. The country's name is not really Mexico, at least not officially. After gaining independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico officially became the "Mexican United States....outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday sent to the Mexican Congress a piece of legislation to change the country's name officially to simply Mexico."

KDBC 4 CBS: Mexico Might Finally Make Name Change Offical

Weird.

That's bullshit. The official name is "The United Mexican States."

They are united and have been since at least 1821.

Got a problem with that?

Calder robe has a problem with that as swipe!

 

[Oldguy]

I thought it was amusing since Mexico is a bit of a shit hole.

Really? Ever been there...outside of Americanized tourist resorts?

And, by the way, YOU posted the link so it's up to YOU to verify its veracity.

 

[AmyNation]

Really? Ever been there...outside of Americanized tourist resorts?

And, by the way, YOU posted the link so it's up to YOU to verify its veracity.

I wouldn't call it a shit hole if I hadn't visited for myself

You are correct, I should have caught the error, and noted it in my OP.

 

[OKTexas]

I would love to live in Mexico if it were safe and more politically stable. It's their country, they can call it anything they want.

 

[Political Junky]

Friends of mine moved to Mexico years ago, apparently there's a big ex-pat community in Guadalajara. I'm sure it's much different now.
Mexico has become what it is because of the vast difference between rich and poor. That contrast is growing in the US, by design.

 

[Political Junky]

Recent growth of the global middle class

In February 2009, The Economist announced that over half the world's population now belongs to the middle class, as a result of rapid growth in emerging countries. It characterized the middle class as having a reasonable amount of discretionary income, so that they do not live from hand to mouth as the poor do, and defined it as beginning at the point where people have roughly a third of their income left for discretionary spending after paying for basic food and shelter. This allows people to buy consumer goods, improve their health care, and provide for their children's education. Most of the emerging middle class consists of people who are middle-class by the standards of the developing world but not the rich one, since their money incomes do not match developed country levels, but the percentage of it which is discretionary does. By this definition, the number of middle-class people in Asia exceeded that in the West sometime around 2007 or 2008.[12]
The Economist's article pointed out that in many emerging countries the middle class has not grown incrementally, but explosively. The rapid growth results from the fact that the majority of the people fall into the middle of a right-skewed bell-shaped curve, and when the peak of the population curve crosses the threshold into the middle class, the number of people in the middle class grows enormously. In addition, when the curve crosses the threshold, economic forces cause the bulge to become taller as incomes at that level grow faster than incomes in other ranges. The point at which the poor start entering the middle class by the millions is the time when poor countries get the maximum benefit from cheap labour through international trade, before they price themselves out of world markets for cheap goods. It is also a period of rapid urbanization, when subsistence farmers abandon marginal farms to work in factories, resulting in a several-fold increase in their economic productivity before their wages catch up to international levels. That stage was reached in China some time between 1990 and 2005, when the middle class grew from 15% to 62% of the population, and is just being reached in India now.
The Economist predicted that surge across the poverty line should continue for a couple of decades and the global middle class will grow enormously between now and 2030.
As the American middle class is estimated at approximately 45% of the population,[13][14][15] The Economist's article would put the size of the American middle class below the world average. This difference is due to the extreme difference in definitions between The Economist's and many other models.[discuss]
In 2010, a working paper by the OECD estimated that 1.8 billion people were now members of the global middle class.[16]
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Middle class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[longknife]

It is los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Mexici git its name from the original inhabitants of the fertile central valley who called themselves Majicana [pronounced ma-hee-cana]. It only became the country of Mexico in 1821 - before that, it was known as New Spain.

To change the name will probably require a constitutional amendment as it was founded as a federation of states - as was the USA.

Maybe if they do that - we can change OUR name to simply America?

 

[House]

Maybe if they do that - we can change OUR name to simply America?

Leave it to us to insult an entire hemisphere at once while summarily muddying the water for our own children, right?

It's annoying enough being the United States of America without further obfuscating the name of our country with the continents. You know... North America, Central America, and South America.

 

[GuyPinestra]

Maybe if they do that - we can change OUR name to simply America?

Leave it to us to insult an entire hemisphere at once while summarily muddying the water for our own children, right?

It's annoying enough being the United States of America without further obfuscating the name of our country with the continents. You know... North America, Central America, and South America.

Careful, all those names were given to the continents by 'racist white guys'...