Sorry Little hawk, but the logic you have used to defend your comments about Mexico and Mexicans just do not wash. "As likely as not," to fluent English speakers, means that there is a prety good chance that something is going to happen. If stabbings occured because of insults on even a moderate basis, then Mexico would be one big, constant knife fight. Anyone who has spent any length of time in Mexico would say that it is incorrect. Likewise, the statement that "Life is cheap" in Mexico is simply unsubstantiated nonesense along the lines of saying that middle-class Americans (as opposed to lower class and wealthy?) "tend" to be shopoholics or addicted to junk food.