Well, well, well… how the turn tables. Suddenly, Mexicans are complaining about being overrun by a bunch of foreigners with different-coloured skin and who don’t speak their language. What are they? Racists or something?
Maybe they ought to build a wall.
I mean, listen to this racist:
Kyle Magabro says, “We’re the only white people. We’re the only people speaking English.”
Oops… now, try the real quote.
Fernando Bustos Gorozpe was sitting with friends in a cafe here when he realized that – once again – they were outnumbered.
“We’re the only brown people,” said Bustos, a 38-year-old writer and university professor. “We’re the only people speaking Spanish except the waiters.”
It’s different when that wet shirt’s on the other back, hey?
In recent years, a growing number of tourists and remote workers – hailing from Brooklyn, N.Y., Silicon Valley and points in between – have flooded [Mexico’s] capital and left a scent of new-wave imperialism.
The influx, which has accelerated since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and is likely to continue as inflation rises, is transforming some of the city’s most treasured neighborhoods into expat enclaves.
They’re taking all the houses and don’t even learn the language!
In leafy, walkable quarters such as Roma, Condesa, Centro and Juarez, rents are soaring as Americans and other foreigners snap up houses and landlords trade long-term renters for travelers willing to pay more on Airbnb. Taquerias, corner stores and fondas – small, family-run lunch spots – are being replaced by Pilates studios, co-working spaces and sleek cafes advertising oat-milk lattes and avocado toast.
And English – well, it’s everywhere.
They’re just economic migrants, after all.
Clear financial incentives are drawing Americans to Mexico City – where the average local salary is $450 a month.
For the cost of a $2,000 one-bedroom in Koreatown, an Angeleno can rent a penthouse here […]
After his revelation at the cafe, Bustos uploaded a video to his popular TikTok account complaining that the influx of foreigners in Mexico City “stinks of modern colonialism”. Nearly 2,000 people posted comments in agreement […]
Omar Euroza said he was sick of feeling like an outsider in his city.
LA Times
Others worry that the newcomers aren’t bothering to learn the local language, or fit in with the culture of the host country. In other words, the migrants are just being multicultural.
They need a catchy name for all that resentment of the vibrant multiculturalism that the newcomers are bringing to their monocultural ethnostate.
Hmm… how does El Gran Reemplazo sound?