Mexican Mentality and Work Ethic
A basic run down of psychological aspects and work ethic among Mexican migrants. Please share your opinions. Excerpts of findings under headings. Sources below.
HOW MEXICO BECAME CORRUPT:
"In the early 1960s a psychologist named Douglas McGregor observed two basic theories of management. Theory X assumes that most people are naturally indolent and seek to get away with something for which they are not entitled. Theory Y assumes the reverse -- that most people are basically honest and hardworking and, if provided with reasonable expectations of satisfactory performance, strive to achieve it. It may come as no surprise that Mexican companies are overwhelmingly theory X organizations.
Why this is true is deeply rooted in the nation's past. One telling sign is the way business came to rely on government; not just in terms of policy decisions (which affect business in every nation) but personal relations with government officials.
Since the nation's founding, few private fortunes were made without colmillo ("fang" or cunning), the owner's ability to cultivate ties to the right officials and master the art of "mutually convenient" relationships. "
TYPES OF MEXICANS:
Retaking the basic notions of ethnopsychology and the findings that had identified
the particularity????in personality terms????of Mexicans at that time, they pointed the way
to create a typology that considered variations and similarities among members of such
cultural group. Therefore, Diaz Guerrero identifies eight types of personality:
Passive Affiliative Obedient type (affectionate)
Self-affirming Rebellious type
Active Internal Control type
Passive External Control type
Passive Cautious type
Active Daring type
Active Autonomous type, and
Passive Interdependent type
THE MYTH OF MEXICAN WORK ETHIC:
"There are certain cases in which culture makes certain labors unpreferable: long-forgotten is Tocqueville's account of Native Americans, in which their disgust for the settled life of the farmer kept them from settling, which kept them from producing, which led to the depletion of resources, which led to the unsustainability of their uncivilized social arrangements. And I remember reading about certain Asian cultures in which the noble women kept themselves out of sunlight as much as possible, to keep skin fair as possible, to ensure they looked as little like the farm-laborers as nature would allow. But I as a blue-collar laborer do not see anything so unmanly and backward in white working-class culture to suggest any of these options: they see glory in dangerous and dirty fishing expeditions and honest living in plumbing and construction, being a culture which still, despite a growing tendency toward softness and litigiousness, shames younger and effeminate youths when they can't keep up, and takes pride in performance. "
SOURCES:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper/DETOC/1_ch18.htm
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/08/the_myth_of_the_mexican_work_ethic.html
iaccp.org/ebook/xian/PDFs/5_3Cruz-Martinez.pdf
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/how-mexico-became-so-corrupt/277219/
www.kean.edu/~lelovitz/docs/EDD6005/humansideofenterprise.pdf