The US backed the Turkish membership bid to the EU... should the EU back Mexico in becoming a US state?

Question

doesn´t this seems just fair?

Answer 1

Oh, let's PLEASE not go there. Instead, just lynch a few of our politicians, let us lynch a few of yours and we'll call it even.


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Answer 2

Good comparison! Turkey is culturally no more fit to be part of Europe than Mexico is fit to be one of the United States.

With the conservative Islamic trend in Turkey, honor killings and worse are on the horizon. The EU already has far too many unassimilated Muslims, from Sweden to Albania, who are totally incompatible with the European concept of religious and sexual tolerance. Their violent response to the Danish cartoons lampooning Mohammed and the murder of Van Gogh in Holland are examples. Who needs it?

A Mexican state would be a different but still immense problem. A nation that wants to provide a significant safety net with universal health, education, and welfare benefits needs a minimum of homogeneity to make it work. The poverty in the State of Mexico would cause an immediate financial crisis.

On the other hand, if rapid economic growth were to occur in Mexico, it would become an interesting additional state because the youth of its population would offset our BabyBoomer problem. Just a thought.

Answer 3

Last I checked, Mexico isn't applying to be a member of the United States, unlike Turkey, which is applying to be a member of the European Union, which is a collection of sovereign nations with guidelines for laws and economic policies.

Mexico is part of NAFTA, which had been envisioned as a somewhat similar, but not identical, system.

Answer 4

Mexico becoming a U.S. state might actually have some real benefits. It would totally make any debate on illegal immigrants moot. We're supporting a good number of their citizens already, might as well tax the ones that are actually producing goods and services.
Seriously, it really doesn't matter what foreign policies the U.S. supports - it's obvious that the EU isn't listening any longer.

Answer 5

And just who do you think wants Mexico to become a state, there corrupt and non productive, we do not need nor want them as a state

Answer 6

Yes! It would only be right.. but since America has now become a pointless player on the world stage. I don't believe the EU governments care what America has to say anymore

Answer 7

Personally I think we should just invade Mexico. They all seem to want to come here badly enough, lets just solve the problem and make them all Americans.