Something I Noticed, Here In Mexico...

Reading Amusing Ourselves to Death, got me to see how fond we are to television. In America, who doesn´t own a television. Right now I´m in Mexico and its a lot different here. In the big cities, everyone owns a television. Mostly everone has a show they watch daily such as "novelas" or shows brought over from the US like the Disney Channel shows. On the other hand, in the poor dirt road cities, not everone owns a television. Of coarse its obvious you would get that result but poeple are much poor here and the minimum wage here is 50 pesos a day which is a bit less than five dollars. But that doesn´t mean everyone here earns so little. Although, my cousin told me that in the Mc Donald´s here you get around 8 pesos an hour which is less than a dollar an hour. People in smaller cities don´t have enough money to make television a priority. That doesn´t stop the children from having fun though, they play outside for practically the whole day and sometimes make small weaponds to throw beans at each other. It´s really interesting watching them play. You don´t see that a lot here -in the US- but that´s because people in America earn more money and in Mexico there are alot of uncivilized cities that are bearly starting to grow. Isn´t it funny how in different countries you see different things that catch your attention?