Monday, May 08, 2006
Ask a mexican
The alibi, 'burque's weekly events free paper, has started running a column called "Ask the Mexican". This column comes from Orange County's weekly events/free paper. Basically, people ask the questions they have always been wondering about Mexicans/latino culture. The questions that get printed are the most outlandish versions. So instead of, "What is the impetus behind leaving mexico and going to the US?", someone has asked, "why the *&%* do you *$(@#*! come over here?" The columnist pulls the punch and returns with his own left hook.
Orange County is not like the show depicts. According to the article introducing the 'burque to Gustavo Arellano, the actual writer, it is 50% white, 30% latino, and the rest are the other demographics. That makes them enough of the population to rub plenty of people (who could trace their own heritages to some immigrant) the wrong way.
I have been enjoying these questions and found one quite enjoyable. "Dear Mexican, why do you call white people gringos?" The answer, only gringos call gringos gringos. Mexicans call gringos gabachos.
This weekend I found out that my uncle denied his two daughters access to their hispanic roots. What I mean is, he told them not to claim it as their heritage. He would tell them, "I don't want you to call yourselves hispanics." He said this until he realized that one of my cousins could get into a good veterinary school with a full ride scholarship by using her name and that culture.
So basically I am a cultural gabacho. I never knew that there was a word like that.
I am, currently, a hotel gabacho.
Orange County is not like the show depicts. According to the article introducing the 'burque to Gustavo Arellano, the actual writer, it is 50% white, 30% latino, and the rest are the other demographics. That makes them enough of the population to rub plenty of people (who could trace their own heritages to some immigrant) the wrong way.
I have been enjoying these questions and found one quite enjoyable. "Dear Mexican, why do you call white people gringos?" The answer, only gringos call gringos gringos. Mexicans call gringos gabachos.
This weekend I found out that my uncle denied his two daughters access to their hispanic roots. What I mean is, he told them not to claim it as their heritage. He would tell them, "I don't want you to call yourselves hispanics." He said this until he realized that one of my cousins could get into a good veterinary school with a full ride scholarship by using her name and that culture.
So basically I am a cultural gabacho. I never knew that there was a word like that.
I am, currently, a hotel gabacho.
# posted by Hotel Gabacho @ 10:01 PM 
