File:The Mexican American Border - A Tale of two Colonies

Why is Mexico so different from the United States? Why is one country poorer than the other? In this video, the first of a 3 part series, I would like to take you on a journey through the socio-economic developments that took place in two countries throughout their recent 400 years of history and compare them.

I feel obliged, first and foremost, to thank a group of artists, who chimed in to help finish the video sooner. A significant amount of the donations and patreon support for this video will go to them.

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Artists & Contributors!

Artists and other contributors, who supported the creation of this video can be followed and commissioned here:

Alp Mapper: On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySz4XwAYchQkiIkJHeeUkw?view_as=subscriber On Deviant Art: https://www.deviantart.com/alpmapper

Eko: On twitter: https://twitter.com/Ekowastooshort?s=09 On instagram: https://instagram.com/ekowastooshort

Teabag: On twitter: https://twitter.com/elpg1576

Turkbud: On instagram: https://www.instagram.com/turkbud/ On artstation: https://www.artstation.com/turkbud

Tanit: On twitter: https://twitter.com/T4NlT?s=09 On youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkpUXdYUmgPSejLaUWYpXkQ

Mrs. Human Car: On discord: https://discord.gg/mbadrCb8wD Her homepage: https://www.thewarprofiteer.net/collaborations On twitter: https://twitter.com/MrsHumanCar

VexiSphere: On twitter: https://twitter.com/SphereVexi On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-904o6glm7PzT0aShRWwlQ

Nomad: On twitter: https://twitter.com/NomadStarr On deviant art: https://www.deviantart.com/monadstar On youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5a288kImIAmn5FSer_krVw

Jikuzen: On twitter: https://twitter.com/Jikusen_FL

Kwad Rat: On twitter: https://twitter.com/Kwad_rat

Many thanks to Tsunami music for contributing music tracks for this video. You can find her soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/tsu_nami Her twitter here: https://twitter.com/TSUNAMIMUSICx and her Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/tsunamimusicx/

Many thanks to the following creators for contributing voice lines for quotations:

Gunter: On youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkNmF9nkFT4CaJt0w-HrCdQ

Olyve Gardens (I mistakenly called her Awfull Ophelia after one of her characters, sorry): On youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXzSI8--JnKrYeYUuQyXDQ On twitter: https://twitter.com/TheR00mie

Liberal Sanity Project: On youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3JqTrfswiG8TXkA0Zp1QiA On twitter: https://twitter.com/lspiguesslol

Tingly Voice: On youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TinglyVoice On twitter: https://twitter.com/TinglyV

Music royalties:

Music: "Kevin MacLeod - Sardana" Promoted by Incompetech: https://youtu.be/Xohu_aq8oqk

Guitarra Flamenca (Música Española) de danilo_dawson está posteada bajo una licencia Creative Commons. Airoso by Ehren K. Wade |WombatNoisesAudio| https://soundcloud.com/user-734462061 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

A Tall Ship by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Meanwhile Back at the Saloon by Brett Van Donsel https://soundcloud.com/brett-van-donsel Promoted by https://youtu.be/wTm-WFM0v-g License: CC BY 4.0 https://goo.gl/9ezBZw

royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music http://freesoundmusic.eu https://www.facebook.com/freemusicfor... https://youtube.com/freesoundmusic original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ZuPqlqYkM

Source material

Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson American Nations, by Colin Woodard American Character, by Colin Woodard The Forgotten Continent by Micheal Reid A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn These truths, by Jill Lepore The Contemporary History of Latin America, by Tulio Halperin Donghi The Narrow Corridor, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson The Origins of Political Decay, by Francis Fukuyama