I like most of the people I have met from Mexico. There are aspects of Mexico that I don't like; the endemic corruption, the crappy educational system, the attitudes towards authority and the powerful that Spanish colonialism left in it's wake. Fortunately most of the Mexicans I have met in the US feel the same way about those things. Spain did much culturally in the Americas but it did not leave a useful political inheritence to it's colonies. I am around people from Latin America on a daily basis, Mexicans (along with Brazilians and Argentinians) seem the least different in terms of mental framework. I think the Mexican people are well into the process of becomming part of the modern world in terms of outlook, at least the ones I meet in Minnesota. Mexican immigrants tend to fit in pretty well here socially if you consider the numbers they are comming in, outside of work most of the Mexicans and Americans I work with hang out together. In the general public nobody notices the guy from Oxaca who works 70 hours a week to get his family into the American middle class because he is always at work.
Mexico is becomming a modern nation but it still needs to divorce itself from the old system of power and politics. Hopefully at some point Mexico's leaders will follow the people's lead. Once it does that and builds a decent educational system and infrastructure the sky is the limit. Like I've said, I like Mexicans in the the US (our countries are forever intertwined) but I hope that at some point some of the talented and energetic people I have met from there go back and try to help fix their country, we steal some of Mexico's best.
And those zany folks actually want to come here! 
