Hm! I think people like Egypt, too. It really seems like people have gotten over the bad history with Egypt--I'd like to say that it's just been so long that it's ridiculous for there to be lingering bad blood, but perhaps not. Maybe because Western consciousness is Christian as opposed to Jewish, it's one more step away from the direct feeling of "you did me wrong"? I wonder how Christian people (or even just people as a whole) feel about Amalek today.

What I meant before is that Western culture has more of a direct tie to Egypt than Mexico, so maybe we feel more like it's our history. (Forgive use of "we," I just sort of mean blah blah blah dominant whatever.) When we came into contact with the Indians we viewed them as outsiders as opposed to ancestors. Then again, I am making all this up. Maybe Egypt just had a good publicist.