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Then she was booed by hundreds in the Mexican audience. The treatment of the Tennessee beauty queen was nothing personal. It had more to do with Mexico's sometimes tense relationship with its powerful northern neighbor.

U.S. athletes have sparked a similar response. In 2005, when the U.S. played Mexico during a World Cup soccer qualifier, the crowd booed the U.S. national anthem and a smattering of fans chanted "Osama! Osama!" during the game.

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

Y'know I am sick of this. Mexicans do not seem to recongnize the sovereignty of the US, and they think they deserve some land from us. Well, those with that attitude, when my People take over we'll give them their land, six feet deep.

You fucking come to the US, you get loyal to the US, no ifs ands or buts. If you are not willing to do that stay home.

Similarly, if we don't like their attitude down in Mexico, that is their country. Stay home. Period.

It really is that simple.

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U.S.-Mexico relations worsened in the past year after the U.S. National Guard was sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist the U.S. Border Patrol and help build hundreds of miles of wall to keep out illegal migrants.

Mexicans are also upset over a U.S. Senate proposal for a sweeping immigration reform bill that would limit the consideration of family ties, capping visas for foreign parents of U.S. citizens at 40,000 a year. The plan would change a system that favored family ties for four decades.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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Then she was booed by hundreds in the Mexican audience. The treatment of the Tennessee beauty queen was nothing personal. It had more to do with Mexico's sometimes tense relationship with its powerful northern neighbor.

U.S. athletes have sparked a similar response. In 2005, when the U.S. played Mexico during a World Cup soccer qualifier, the crowd booed the U.S. national anthem and a smattering of fans chanted "Osama! Osama!" during the game.

Well, that's seriously rude.

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

You know they teach in schools down in Mexico that the United States stole the southwest from them.
66% of Mexicans today think this is true.

I just find it funny because if you read accurate history, today's Mexicans are actually from Spain in the 1500s. They slaughtered the Aztecs and stole the land and wealth from them. So going from their philosophy, its not their land either.

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:  From:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Aztecs

Fall of the Aztec Empire

For more on the conquest of Mexico by Spain, see also Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Siege of Tenochtitlan, and Hernán Cortés.
The Aztecs were conquered by Spain in 1521 after a long siege of the capital, Tenochtitlan, where much of the population died from hunger and smallpox. Cortés, with up to 500 Spaniards, did not fight alone but with as many as 150,000 or 200,000 allies from Tlaxcala, and eventually other Aztec tributary states. Cuauhtémoc, the last Hueyi Tlatoani surrendered to Cortés on August 13, 1521.
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The fate of the Aztec empire under Spanish rule
Cortés' stated intention was to maintain the structure of the Aztec empire. Initially, it seemed that the Aztec empire could survive under Spanish rule. The upper classes of the Aztec empire were initially considered as noblemen (to this day, the title of Duke of Moctezuma is held by a Spanish noble family). The upper classes learned Spanish, and several learned to write in Roman characters. Some of their surviving writings are crucial to our knowledge of the Aztecs. In addition, the first missionaries tried to learn Nahuatl and some, like Bernardino de Sahagún, set out to learn as much as they could of the Aztec culture.

All that changed rapidly. Eventually, the indigenous peoples were not only forbidden to learn of their cultures, but were also forbidden to learn to read and write in Spanish, and, under the law, they were reduced to the status of minors.

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

Give me a break, NG. I remember when Bill Clinton used to visit Europe...you guys still bood him. I don't think Iraq is the issue.

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

And TV networks in Mexico did not claim the booing was for US policy...they claimed it was because they thought the US was favored in international events like pagents and sports. Don't tell me it doesn't piss off the French that Lance Armstrong (a guy from the same state as George W. Bush) won their little bike race 6 years in a row. But not even did they boo when Armstrong won, and the US anthem is played.

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

If Ronald Reagan was alive and goes over to Europe today, he'd be booed too.

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

Everything in Europe right now is socialism and globalism.

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

Europe has changed very much since the cold war days....some argue for the worse. America hasn't changed much at all.

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Based on your above posts, I don't think you have the slighest idea of what Europe was like prior to, during or after the cold war.