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I'm not sure what a "deficient culture" means-how do you quantify something like culture? Sounds awfully elitist to me.

It's elitist in that some things are better than other things.
If you want to quantify it, look what it produces: In mexico's case, it's a barely literate population incapable of producing virtually anything, and is limited to mining oil and harvesting crops.
It's a country wracked with corruption, crime, poverty, gangs and virtually every other social pathology.