Mexican, American, or Jewish?

I am going through a mid-life crisis.

My wife was born in the Reform Jewish Community. She is agnostic, and so am I. Having been born in Mexico City, I have decided to become an American. My children did not decide; my wife and I, brought them up, in a Mexican American secular household.

Postville, Iowa, is going through some growing pains of its own, you can read about them here.

I am agnostic, very likely I will die with this belief. I do not know, and I am not working, to find out, if Universal Intelligence put us on Earth. If you are curious about a Big Fish in the Sky, go somewhere else for answers.

The American bit is keeping me up at night, though.

During adolescence, we are acculturated by Society, through family and school; and so was I. I will feel Mexican until I die also.

Now I come to the American part. This is more than a Naturalization Document. My thoughts about my citizenship are as follows:

This week, a person I know, was kidnapped in Mexico. He lost close to twenty thousand dollars, and he is OK now. All the terror was through a cell-phone. He was never in physical captivity by the abductors. Through the cell, they threatened him, and he gave them money so they won't terrorize him anymore.

Any threat in Mexico can, and is carried out, with 98% chance of impunity.

I do not want to live in Mexico. Law and order, protect me here.

Acemoglu and Robinson explain in "Why Nations Fail", how the precept "Nobody is above the Law," distinguishes Stable and Successful Nations, from Failed ones.

Mexico is a Failed Nation!

The United Kingdom, the US, and a few others, have a system of laws. I will be proud to be accepted, as a member of a Society, where free men and women, can live and prosper.