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goldentrucker17 said:Hold up, are you actually messing with me right now? How many Mexicans from Canada actually cheer for the Canada team? Don't be ridiculous...
I mean, why the attitude then? If you think it's perfectly fine for Americans living abroad to cheer for the US, then why is it such a problem when Mexicans root for Mexico? It's the same logic, really.
frozenheron25 said:It isn't about whether you cheer or not; it's about how much you actually love or hate the country where you actually live.
Those players definitely don't hate their home country, unlike most Mexicans living in America. There are exceptions, sure, but not many.
But if they truly hate it this much, why would they even bother living in America? Especially if they have another country—Mexico—that you claim they love more. And please, let's not talk about "standard of living" here; we both know that if you truly loved your country, you'd stick by it through all its mess and problems. Real love doesn't care about borders or convenience.
Alright, so here’s another thought for you guys—I was wondering about integration. Take people like Nick and Robert Kovach, for instance; have they actually blended into German society? Or look at Didulica and Šimunić moving to Australia, or Petrić and Rakitić heading to Switzerland. It makes me wonder if fans who weren't born in the States really integrate into those other countries when they end up cheering for the American national team while playing against the very country they actually call home. How do the locals view them? It’s kind of like how people here look at Mexicans who choose to cheer for Mexico instead of America... maybe people are more lenient because they don't view nationality as such a massive, intense identity. But it feels inconsistent. If those types of fans show up and pack the stadiums cheering for America, then everyone thinks it's fine—but if Mexicans do that exact same thing, they’re immediately branded as traitors. It just feels like pure hypocrisy to me.
Just a quick off-topic question for the OP here—back when we were all part of one big country, did Americans actually cheer for the South? That’s really my way of asking about how integration worked back then.
Would you actually be happy if, after independence was finally won, people started treating you like a second-class citizen just because you didn't belong to the "right" ethnic group—or maybe because you were born into a mixed marriage? It’s the kind of thing that happens when national identity gets all messy and exclusionary. This applies to both America and Mexico alike.