In An Absolut World of Phony Victims

The Absolut Vodka print ad has pissed a lot of people off and gave others a phony sense of smug superiority.

The print ad, which appeared on billboards and in magazines in Mexico, made it's way to a wider audience via the Internet. The strange ad has been the subject of countless blogs and has sparked fiery arguments between those who find it funny and those who see it for what it is.

To the Mexicans that whine about the theft of their land by the United States, it doesn't matter that it was Mexico that started the war, and lost the war. It also doesn't matter that after the war Mexico sold the land to the United States in a treaty deal. All that matters to them is playing the phony victim where the big bad Americans bullied them out of what was rightly theirs.

Perhaps those Mexicans are unfamiliar with their own history: Mexico was never native Mexican.

The land that they are crying over was taken from the real indigenous inhabitants by the Spaniards. From Europe. Over there, where the Spanish language originated. But, for the sake of playing victim, it is better for the Mexicans to forget that.

So, let's play along with the victims. It's 2008, and through some tortured channel of convoluted logic, many Mexicans blame their unfortunate situations on America 'stealing' their land. To many of these people this imagined theft makes it perfectly justifiable to invade America illegally.

Well, what say they had all of that land back? Even though it was not their land originally, let's say that in 2008 they can lay claim to it and all of it is suddenly under Mexican rule. Would that scenario make their situations any better?

Or would it simply be a larger geographic area from which to flee?