Snark. I like it.
Actually, it is relevant, because Vietnamese fleeing Vietnam parallels Cubans fleeing Cuba, after both countries adopted socialist systems. Relevant in the sense that Vietnam is doing much better than Cuba these days, and as such, the refugee flow stopped.
I'm not talking about Cuba or Vietnam they were simply examples that it is possible to win a revolution against the imperial core, I do not know how that is hard to understand to you, I haven't expressed support or condemnation I have stated the fact that they succeeded which means it's possible, other than that it holds no relevancy to anything else I've said, also I'll have you know that snark is a core part of my cultural heritage and I'll have you know that I have toned it down in an effort to seem less rude, I don't know if I have succeeded though, this is actually a serious statement BTW.
Oh come on, I know you're desparate here.
First, if we're comparing countries, Australia ranks higher than Internet freedom than Mexico, so that doesn't hold up. Second, if you're browsing from Latin American universities (universities being left wing in general), then if anything, you're going to get more biaised results. I doubt that's actually the case, but that's not how search algorithms work.
Third, I have put effort into things. That's why, as opposed to decades ago I was under the assumption that the US was literally blockading Cuba, I'm less willing to simply go "US bad" and consider other factors, including the collapse of USSR subsidies, the Cuban regime itself, and its bizzare economic system.
First of all you're probably monolingual so you don't understand that if I google a thing in Spanish I get results in Spanish, which is my native language, that's actually how the algorithm works, second universities are generally not left wing, they tend to be liberal which is to say rather liberal and very much do tend to favour Capitalism particularly in the economic sector, it's really only arts and social sciences that have a tendency towards the left, c'mon dude I'm a high school dropout and even I know that, third most of Latin America is economically liberal which is to say institutionally in favour of Capitalism even if among the generally populace Socialism is more accepted than in the "Global North", and finally everything is biased, there's no such thing as unbiased data, the biases of the person making the study directly inform the methodology and goal of the study, that's the way it works, the reason why the bias of Latin American studies show a much less charitable depiction of imperialism and economic interference is because Latin Americans living under the heel of those systems tend to not only be more aware of those systems so therefore they are more likely to study them, since you know they directly influence our daily lives, it makes that you don't give a shit, it doesn't affect you.
Um, if you want to make the "founded on genocide" argument, you do realize that applies to Mexico as well, right?
It was a joke, pretty sure I stated as much, but if you want to take it seriously, yes México and basically all of Latin America is founded genocide, imperialism and slavery too, there is a key difference though, the Spanish were less focused in annihilating the natives than the English settlers in Australia or North America, as a result a lot of natives survived and the majority of the population, myself included are mixed race, as a result our cultures actually tend to be more sympathetic towards the natives and even if there is governmental oppression of the natives (Which there very much still is in México), the vast majority of the population at least here in México identify more as native than European, you'll hear a lot more people brag about being of Aztec, Mayan, Olmec, etc descent than people bragging over Spanish or otherwise European descent, which makes the regular populace very different to what a culture like yours or the Americans is, now I will not claim there isn't racism because there is but it's very different and the culture doesn't worship colonialism like your people do, since despite the majority of the population being mixed they consider the Spanish the bad guys and general consensus is that their arrival is bad, this is despite school textbooks painting a very different story as they are more favourable towards colonialism.
Also, neither Australia or Mexico are imperialist in any real sense of the word.
They do, to a degree all countries in the world are interconnected by global trade, and through this medium they all engage in economic imperialism, México is a bit different as it is definitely one of the economically colonised countries and therefore one of the exploited, forced to accept trade deals that are directly detrimental to it's society, we can see this very plainly in a city in which I used to live called Mexicali in Baja California (North), the city doesn't have one but two power plants using thermoelectric technology in order to generate power for several cities in the USA I don't know exactly which ones but I know they definitely sell to at least California & Arizona, however since the plants were contracted to provide for the USA and not México in order to have power the city of Mexicali has to buy back that power from the USA resulting in the city with the most expensive electricity in the entire country, despite having two power plants that should in theory make it really cheap, this is an example of economic imperialism, these kinds of violent directly damaging deals are what I'm referring to when I say economic imperialism, and it is damaging these plants use water in order to generate electricity and while Mexicali is a desert it's actually very rich in subterranean water deposits, however between the power plants, the coca-cola factory and the beer factories the small towns surrounding the city are being left without water and without water communities simply can't function, these people are all being murdered by economic imperialism, that is my point this is murder this what you do, in a sense we all do it, México engages in trade deals and exploits too, but that is precisely why Capitalism is bad, and the USA is the worst offender when it comes to this as they not only aggressively engage in these horribly tyrannical deals but they also actively wage violent wars or fund someone else fight those wars on their behalf and keep those deals sweet and cheap for them, no matter how many people they have to kill, whether directly with guns and drones or indirectly by getting someone else to do it or starving people.
BTW in the same way they manipulate the market to keep deals low for themselves they also manipulate the markets to keep deals high towards their political opponents, that's why conditions in socialist countries tend to be bad, because they force them to take extremely bad deals in order to prevent them from succeeding, and that's also why poor Capitalist countries stay poor, take México for example it's actually extremely wealthy in resources, everything from Oil, Lithium, to high quality fish and seafood as well as beef and way too many vegetables, fruits and spices as well as textiles, Electricity and way too many other resources can be found here, by all intents and purposes due to the sheer quantity of goods and services we provide we should be an extremely rich country, the levels of poverty that we have should be considered absurd, but we aren't, because of this practice of economic imperialism, which is what has lead us to the current global situation of Eurocentrism, and part of the reason why China is being made out to be the hugest evil that has ever existed it's because China defies the standard of Eurocentrism, while also having a different economic system, though nowadays it resembles Capitalism way too much to really be considered different.
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