Dear Mexican:
I'm half Catalan, and the women on my mom's side of my family have spent their lives being hated by Mexicans. I've never understood it. My mom and aunts warned me as soon as I hit junior high that I was going to have a target on me, because they did, too, when they were my age. It didn't make sense — I had the same Mexican friends since kindergarten. I grew up in a mostly Mexican neighborhood, and I spoke their language. But it didn't matter: My mom, her six sisters, and most of my cousins, and I have been called "coconut" or some other mean thing because of our background, and all of us have been threatened by at least one MEChA member. It wasn't only our fellow students — none of us could take a Spanish class without a teacher telling us that we were completely wrong and that no one talked or wrote like us anymore. But no males in my family ever experienced this. Can you please tell me why Mexican women hate Spanish women?
Barcelona Babe
Dear Ethpañola:
Don't you get it, chula? You're the oppressor, the whore of the power elite, mother of the Conquest. Your sons slaughtered millions of Indians. Go back to Europe, you pilgrim. NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL. SI SE PUEDE. Sorry — had to shake some radicalism out of me — ¡QUE VIVA LA RAZA! Anyhoo, there's no rhyme or razón for the hate wabs inflicted on the women of your family. Spanish bashing is a sport practiced mostly by the Bush administration desde cuando the country left his Coalition of the Willing — Mexicans got over hating their ancestors once the gabachos came into play. You don't provide details about specific anti-Spanish slurs lobbed your way (the coconut or vendido — sellout — jab is one thrown by many Mexicans at their better-off peers, while the Spanish-language bit may owe more to your people's way of speaking español), so I can only deduce that the women in your family are envy-producing ladies or bitches. I don't mean to belittle your pain, but to insist that your problems with Mexican mujeres have everything to do with ethnicity and nothing with general human traits seems pretty ignorant. Want to get back at them? Just say you're Catalan — that'll draw more quizzical stares from Mexicans than a Mexican Minuteman.
Dear Mexican:
Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah, also known as Mr. Amnesty, one of La Raza's heroes, was trounced in the Utah primary by a relative unknown who is from the Tom Tancredo school of immigration reform. Cannon had been bulletproof until the election despite his steadfast cheerleading for amnesty, open borders and increased benefits for illegal aliens. Poll data show that Cannon's immigration stance was a major factor in his defeat. I'm hoping this is a sign that we apathetic gringos are finally connecting the dots about what's happening to our country as a result of our de facto unrestricted immigration policy. What's your take?
Legal Resident
Dear Gabacho:
Keep hoping. Railing against Mexicans might win local races, but it's simply not an issue that translates into a platform for national electoral victory. If it were, Tancredo would've become the Republican candidate for president instead of his sworn enemy, John McCain; instead, he sits somewhere in Colorado, drowning his tears in green chile over his hypocritical endorsement of McCain. The problem for your side of the political aisle is that you've never been able to lay out a cogent argument against illegal immigration that doesn't inevitably turn into a Know Nothing screed against culture. Again: Look at Tancredo, also known as Mr. Deportation, who's now leaving Congress with little to show for his nine years on Capitol Hill other than having his name become a synonym for pendejo.
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more like embarrassed by the hispanic people i should say. I feel like our culture needs to be fine tuned a alot. We need to discipline our kids, set good examples for them, send our adult asses to school, get real careers, and teach our kids not too drop out or have premarrital-sex and so on. Most hispanic parents are too soft on their kids and spoil them. I think racism still exists and why let raise ur children to be ignorant? So the raxist can laughat them????
Its a shame how ''la raza'' is so ignorant. Iam half hispanic and half white (polish-german descent). My whole life my own hispanic family called bolia (white girl). Also i've been made fun of and called white girl by so many ignorant/and educated hispanics. I picked up a little bit of an accent because i married into a hispanic family whom has lived here in America for hundreds of years and they only speak spanish, so i had to learn how to speak spanish fluently! :/ I'm an american girl so i found it odd that they lived here that long and never bothered to go to college, learn english, and better theirselves. All my husband's family has kids at a young age and picks up std's and has several 'baby's daddy's' and they all beleive in brujeria (mexican witchcraft). I love my father's culture, but I am ashamed of all the ignorant people in my fathers race.
Thank you so very much for commenting about this! wow que ignorante son la gente. I feel the same as the woman that made the original post and BB. I speak fluent spanish and some Mexican lady told me the other day I sounded Puerto Rican! Only cause she thinks I am just a English white lady, in reality I am a Spanish American. Wow and people who want to talk racism all day, they really need to take another look at themselves. All this time people really need to start to educate themselves and love one another, or better yet love themselves. But as far as feeling like an outsider, yeah I do. I am light skinned, blue eyed, and light hair and all the latinas especially Mexicanas, really do not like me. Those are the ones who are dark skinned. But the lighter ones seem to relate. Funny how people
are so judgemental and so insecure. I love that I am bilingual and I am proud of my heritage and I actually have love for other people's and their culture as well. Live, Learn and succeed!! Viva la gente que son educados!!
Hmmm? First catalonian doesn't equal Spanish, that's like saying that an Italian guy is Spanish which makes nonsense. Spanish peoples are the ones that speak castillian (spanish) as first language which excludes catalonians, as they speak their own language (spanish is the second language in catalonia) and have their own culture, different from our own.
Second, if there are women in mexico that hate spanish women is for the same reason that there are men in mexico who hates spanish guys (and the same reason why anyone will hate other people just for matters of race, culture, religion...inferiority complex (which is actually weird keeping in mind that Mexico is economically more powerfull than Spain but are them who hates us)
And I am half catalonian (valencian) half spanish, but I consider myself full spanish because I was raised in a Spanish enviroment, in an Spanish Community and I do not Speak catalonian (despite all my father's family speaking it in front of me and my mother even when they know we do not speak it...lovely people)
Hmmm? First catalonian doesn't equal Spanish, that's like saying that an Italian guy is Spanish which makes nonsense. Spanish peoples are the ones that speak castillian (spanish) as first language which excludes catalonians, as they speak their own language (spanish is the second language in catalonia) and have their own culture, different from our own. Second, if there are women in mexico that hate spanish women is for the same reason that there are men in mexico who hates spanish guys (and the same reason why anyone will hate other people just for matters of race, culture, religion...inferiority complex (which is actually weird keeping in mind that Mexico is economically more powerfull than Spain but are them who hates us) And I am half catalonian (valencian) half spanish, but I consider myself full spanish because I was raised in a Spanish enviroment, in an Spanish Community and I do not Speak catalonian (despite all my father's family speaking it in front of me and my mother even when they know we do not speak it...lovely people)
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