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Mexico lo que todo ciudadano quisiera (no) saber de su patria

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This is obviously not a serious historical book BUT can make Mexicans think seriously about patriotism and politics in general.

If you have read and thoroughly enjoyed "America: The Book", then this book is for you. Dresser and Volpi became inspired with that book and decided to create a similar one relating to Mexico. It is not meant to "brush up" on Mexican history, rather satire past events and current politics.
Because of the extensive cultural references, It is recommended for someone who knows Spanish pretty well and is up-to-date on current affairs.
It's filled with diagrams, pictures, humorous passages, and pop-cultural icons of Mexican people. I read and and could not let it down.
Overall, great book for those who enjoyed similar humor as "America: the Book" and is fluent in Spanish

As someone who knows and lives in my daily life all the little things that make Mexico a great and a difficult country, I found really interesting and fun to read all the facts that we have learnt all these years with a fun and critic twist thant makes us reflect about our history, our culture,our lives, and also think about our actions that contribute to all the flaws that we have as mexicans.

I highly recomend it for anyone who wants to get to know more of Mexico with an acid and at the same time light touch. Great work of Jorge Volpi and Denise Dresser

As someone who hasn't lived in Mexico for 10 years, I purchased this book hoping to brush up on my Mexican history and also to catch up on current events.
I knew this book would not take itself too seriously. And I didn't want to buy a "boring history book". But I didn't realize I would be purchasing an oversized, 300 page comic book - RIUS style, only in color-. Filled with lists, time lines, charts and "ejercicios para el estudiante" that are meant to be funny and entertaining . But are often times tedious and unamusing.
Found the book to be as unhumorous and incoherent as RIUS is.

I guess I wasn't enough of a "ciudadano" to get it.