Comments by "" (@badluck5647) on "The Mexican American War: The War that Made Modern America" video.

  1.  @archetypealch3my290  Part of bigotry from Americans was anti Catholic sentiment, and the Irish Americans also felt companionship to the Mexicans because the Mexicans were Catholic too. I'm not mad. I'm just confused why you are ignoring an important detail.
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  2. It wierd how you ignored how Catholicism fit into the event.
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  3. I can't wait until the prequel: The Texas Revolution
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  4.  @archetypealch3my290  It is a pretty big element, so it odd to not mention it. It like like talking about the American Civil War and not bringing up slavery.
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  5. Now I want a Biographic for General and President Zachary Taylor.
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  6. I feel like someone is reinventing Marxism where every moment of history is defined as racial struggle instead of class struggle. You are giving too much emphasis to slavery. Unlike the rest of the South, the settled part of Texas wasn't rich in land that was good for farming cotton, so slavery wasn't as vital to them. Most Texans were just farmers who were worried about the Mexican dictatorship much like the two other breakaway Mexican republics at the time.
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  7. Technically cowboy is a term for vaquero, because cowboy culture originated in Mexico. However, the American version had better hats.
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  8. They literally covered all the wars you listed with the exception of the Boxer rebellion in middle and high school history classes. Individual states also cover wars with Native Americans if the state was heavily involved in it.
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  9. The Bitish were kidnapping American sailors to fight for their inbred king.
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  10. Brain Blaze is the best one!
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  11. Every country fought it's neighbors at some point. It's hardly unique.
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  12. I don't think it's the Mexicans making California crazy. It's the white American liberals destroying the state.
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  13. That is literally every country before the 20th century.
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  14. There was actually talk of annexing the whole country, but the politicians decided to only take the mostly empty territory, because they didn't want millions of Catholic non-white citizens. Opposition to imperialism is a relatively modern concept, so I do find it strange that there is an expectation for people of the 18th and 19th centuries to have the same values as us.
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  15.  @D3FC0N96  If taking land by the barrel of gun from the Native Americans, Mexico, and Spain isn't imperialism, then what would you call it? I think most Americans have recognized the hypocrisy by the 20th century, and have worked to undo American imperialism. It is why Indian territories were given more sovereignty and why the Philippines were put on a path towards independence.
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  16. You know there were hardly any Mexicans living in these areas at the time of the war? For example, Tejanos, residents of the state of Texas who are culturally descended from the original Hispanic settlers from Tejas, Coahuila, and other northern Mexican states who settled in the state of Texas before it became a US state in 1845, are a smaller Hispanic population in the state than people with descent from Guatemala or El Salvador.
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  17.  @EAWanderer  You have a very Old World view of territory and sovereignty. In the Americas sovereignty is about what the residents in the territory want; unlike Europe and Asia's hyperfocus on "historical claims" An obvious example is that vast majority of Mexican-Americans don't want the Southwest United States to rejoin Mexico.
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  18. They tried. Texas won their own independence.
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  19. That would be an interesting Biographic.
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  20.  @pauld.b7129  I would welcome the hard working Mexican people, but I wouldn't want California's entitled snowflakes involved.
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  21. What are you talking about? Every American history class covers it. It's not possible to explain how the country expands beyond the Louisiana territory without covering it.
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  22. The most imperialist event in America history
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  23. The Tejanos also fought for Texas independence.
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  24. That is literally every country before the 20th century.
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