Two different languages, two different races, two different territories, two different pasts, two different governments, two different evolutions, two different cultures, two different countries. Yes, its more than obvious that the United States of America are a lot different to the United States of Mexico. Although the official names sound alike, their meanings are actually way too distant from each other. But how two neighbors can be so different? How can it be possible that two countries that are together, geographically speaking, grew so apart from each other. These contrasts are not new, they started way way back, even before English and Spaniards conquered the new world.In order to understand the present we have to start by understanding the past. So let me take you way back to a world a lot different to ours. A world where races didn't was a cause for killing, of segregation and for going to war. A world were everything was for everyone, a world with peace, a world with no hunger, a world without political conflicts or UNAM problems. I'm talking about a period of time where the New World was not even New, it was not even known. Settlers, native people established in two completely different regions. One was warm and wet, where plants could grow easily and were you could establish yourself, and the other one was arid, sometimes hot, sometimes cold, a territory where life was difficult and establishment was a lot more. There we can clearly notice the first important difference between the U.S. and Mexico, one inhabited the north and arid part, Arid America (U.S.) and the other on the southern and comfortable part, Mesoamerica (Mexico). The native Mexicans discovered agriculture due to the conditions of their land, and this made their growth easier and faster, in the other hand the States were considered hunters and nomads. Then came the Europeans to corrupt but also to help a lot this part of the world. With the sh...
