Modern Mexico: Pros and Cons

Mexico is choking these days on it's two cardinal sins, greed and indifference. Greed has always been an issue, but the indifference seems to get worse and worse...
Mexicans succeed in making even the bougois embarrassed.
There is also a streak of Self Entitlement like you have never seen in Mexico. It is the world's oldest Socialist Country, despite the famous reputation of the Soviet Union, and Mexican Politics have harped on charity for so long, since the revolution, and a perception of being screwed and therefore being owed something is so embedded, that the place just radiates with an entitlement. People want a first world lifestyle, and they kind of count on others to give it to them, and they don't have any faith in their ejido or government to lift them up, so their demands for a better life go anywhere they can, and their movement into a market economy and away from self reliance makes that all the more bitter, as their demands and expectations separate even more widely from how the world values what they give and what they need..

Pros

There is a grace that exists in mexico, dying, but a graciousnesss.. it's the fantasy of mexico, harder and harder to find in it's traditional form, the old campesino lady or grandpa type, but they remain an accepting people who are happy to live and let live, and who can make things up to you that you don't expect them to notice or care about, a kind of genial kindness, and forgiveness.
resourcefulness

Cons

cowardice
greed
mimicry without insight, leading to or stemming from incompetence
the endless hassling of foreigners, and the national beleif that foreigners are to be exploited at any opportunity
the Drug War
Horrible Architecture
socialism  and the ejido system
Ignorance
Indifference
being undignified is increasingly seen as a rebellion, and dignified, at the expense of any healthier outlet, in a kind of class war rejection of the rich worthy of american reality television