2007-01-29 20:14:46 · 9 answers · asked by DAVID M 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
wow, stupidest comparison I have heard in a long time.
2007-01-29 20:18:42 · answer #1 · answered by Tuco 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Berlin Wall was separating a city, a group of people, and even families. The wall that is under construction along the US and Mexico border is separating two entirely different nations. No one was ever allowed to cross the Berlin Wall. If someone wants to go through the legal process of applying for a visa or US citizenship then they will be allowed to come over into the US from Mexico. The point of the wall is to keep out ILLEGAL immigrants from coming over into the US.
2007-01-30 12:02:31 · answer #2 · answered by real illuminati(Matt) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the Berlin Wall was separating an ethnic people. West and East Berliners were still German.
I'm sorry, but the United States is NOT Mexico. Everyone is not entitled to United States citizenship as a matter of right.
2007-01-30 04:20:41 · answer #3 · answered by zzzzzzzzz27 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I agree with ichmageulen.
The biggest flaw in your comparision is why and who built the wall.
The EAST Germans built the wall to keep EAST Germans IN. Here the US is trying to build a wall to keep foriegners (including Mexicans, but also Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Guatemalans, etc.) OUT.
Life in East Germay pretty much sucked, what with it being a totalitarian Communist Dictatorship. Right across the street in West Berlin there was freedom, capitalisim, opportunity, and plenty. People wanted to get out of the East and into the West, and they were leaving in droves. Life in East Germany was so bad that the EAST German Government had to turn their own country into a prison to keep their own people in. East Germany built the wall so they could keep their people in and keep them as (more or less) slaves. Their wall was an attack on Liberty and a symbol of repression.
The US isn't trying to repress anybody. We are happy to let the Mexicans do whatever they want to do, as long as they do it in Mexico. We are happy to let people in as long as they follow our laws. That is the important difference between the two walls.
(As a side issue US Immigration laws are TOTALLY screwed up, something the anti-immigration people won't tell you, and most of them probably don't even know, but that is a side point...)
Life in Mexico is very hard because back in the 1920s they had a revolution and hard Left won. For about 70 years they have had one political party and everyone got taught screwed up socialist economics. The result was a totally corrupt government and a broken economy. If your great granddaddy was on the right side of the Revolution you are powerful and rich; if he wasn't you are poor and going to pretty much stay that way. Since the rich people have all the power, they are pretty much happy with the way things are and don't want to see any changes.
So the poor Mexicans want to come here, NOT to make America more like Mexico, but just to make a better life for themselves and their kids. (Trust me, if you are willing to walk across the Arizona desert in August to get away from a place you aren't trying to export the philosophy that screwed up your homeland in the first place!!)
Thing is, as the American economy changes there aren't a whole lot of jobs open for people who don't have a lot of school. Most of those jobs have been exported overseas, or are done by computers now. The Americans who don't have a lot of education are very very VERY afraid of Mexicans coming in and taking their jobs away from them. That is why the anti-immigration people tend to be loud, stupid, and often racisit. (Personally I think they should just get more schooling if they want a better job. You can't artificially restrict supply in a market economy...OPEC tried it with Oil in the 70s and it didn't work, the DEA tried to cut off the illegal drug supply in the 80s and 90s and it didn't work, the music industry tried to stop illegal downloading and file sharing and we know how well that worked, heck the British tried it with tea in the 1770s and it didn't work then either...now these guys are trying to restrict the supply of unskilled labor in the American job market... it's not going to work.)
In any case that is why the two walls are different. One was built to keep slaves in, the other is being built to keep foriegners out.
2007-01-30 09:51:01 · answer #4 · answered by Larry R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad comparison. Dont get me wrong, I'm against the wall being built, but there is a huge difference. Lets make Berlin modern times. Canada, Mexico, and Cuba take over the US. Then they divide it up into parts and build a big *** wall to seperate which parts are theirs.
Then you have the wall they are building now which is going to seperate two countries.
I dont like the idea, because
1) its a waste of money, because Mexicans arent stupid. They will just dig a hole under it (Viva Mexico YA!!!)
2) its just making our international relations worse
3) its keeping people from their families
ps. My fiance is Mexican... I have to join the cause!
2007-01-30 04:33:36 · answer #5 · answered by ichmageulen 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Hmm because Mexico isn't part of the US? East Germany and West Germany was totally different then the U.S and Mexico. We are trying to keep illegals out, and there is a LEGAL way in. East Germany was trying to keep everything in, including it's philosphy and people. Very different situatioins
2007-01-30 08:25:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
im actually for the wall being built along the us mexico border...
but the berlin wall was totally different
2007-01-30 04:20:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
avoid infiltration from mexico
2007-01-30 04:20:11 · answer #8 · answered by Think Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to learn some geography.
2007-01-30 04:34:05 · answer #9 · answered by Pommac 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋