Why Do Mexicans "Hate" Dishwashers?

My answer to a viral Substack that tried to explain it — and got Mexico all wrong.

This week I came across a Substack attempting to explain why Mexicans “hate using dishwashers”. What I found wasn’t analysis but a caricature: an essay full of clichés, condescension, and half-baked anthropology.

It’s a textbook case of “parachute journalism”: the kind of writing that tries to explain Mexico to the world without ever pausing to understand it. And it’s exactly the reason I created Mexico Decoded.

So today, I’m doing something I rarely do: write an answer to that Substack, explain why it does not make any sense, and provide the real reasons why Mexicans don’t use dishwashers.