I like how he can list all these neat little factoids about India but fail to even understand what the word Curry even means. This doesn't really even account for the Anglo interpretation of what this word has become or even the history of what even is a "curry." Just smooth brain shit all around, well done Gene 👍 https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1429802465055096842
Might have to do with the fact that the natives of the US were largely displaced and replaced by Europeans, whereas Mexico retained a lot more indigenous influence. Colonization is inherently sterilizing in the sense that there is a leveling of cultural differences between colonizing peoples that necessarily leads to less diversity than the cultures of populations that have been settled in an area for a relatively much longer period of time. It's only with time, distance, and relative lack of communication and population movement that colonizing/conquering cultures can develop similar diversity to what existed beforehand. You see similar phenomena with the diversity of language (which is heavily intertwined with culture) and biology - diaspora populations tend to be more homogeneous than long settled ones.
It helps that some Mexican political leaders, political movements and even Presidents in some capacity embraced aspects of Indigenous culture and identity as a means to create a Mexican identity separate from Spain's and France's cultural nexus.