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¡Ask a Mexican! 5-13-2013
How Many Mexicans Can You Fit Into a Single-cab Chevy Truck?
Dear Mexican: Where did the notion of adding an -o to the end of an English word and assuming it makes it a Spanish word come from? Juanito Dear Wab: “Anglos have long held power ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 5-6-13
Uppity immigrants and naturalization problems
Dear Mexican: Why is it that people from Chihuahua and Monterrey are such jackasses? They come from pinches ranchitos and talk about their haciendas, They cross the border and act as if their cagada does ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 4.29.13
Why Mexicans aren't Caucasian.
Dear Mexican: Although I'm familiar with your column, I don't read it regularly. But today, I was struck by something you said in a recent column about how Mexicans can make Americans like Mexicans. So ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 4.22.13
The Mexican gives guidance on ranchera music and taxes.
Dear Mexican: I have always liked ranchera music. As of late, I have wanted to get deeper into it as far as the history, the culture and especially the songs and lyrics. The older I ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 4.15.13
¡Ask a Mexican! — 4.15.13
Dear Mexican: What do we need to do to make the güeros understand we come in peace As Mexicans, we are from this great American continent as well, but in the average close-minded English-speaking folks’ ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 4.8.13
Mexican's libra gets some love; advice for a young chica with gabacho problems.
Dear Mexican: We're in state testing this week at the high school I teach at. After the students finish a section, they can only sit and read or just sit. I did an experiment: I ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 4.1.13
¡Ask a Mexican! — 4.1.13
Dear Mexican: Please explain to me why so many Mexicanas seem to think it more important to stay home and baby-sit than to attend school (so that they may become more in life than producers ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 3.25.13
The Mexican counsels adoptive parents and explains foreign driver bureaucracy.
Dear Mexican: About six years ago, my wife and I adopted a little baby boy. He is “pure” mestizo and we are complete wabs. I’m a little dark because of my mixed Arab heritage, but ...
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Gustavo Arellano Dear Mexican: I’m living in Mexico part of the year. I’m learning Spanish but can't say I understand or speak well. I read several books about the history of Mexico and think I’m ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 3.11.13
¡Ask a Mexican! — 3.11.13
Dear Mexican: I would be most interested in hearing your point of view regarding our raza always voting for someone with a Latino last name, without even considering if the vato/vata is qualified for a ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 3.4.13
The bigger the sombrero, the wabbier the man.
Dear Readers: The Mexican is currently dealing with deportation issues but will return next week once he builds his 15-foot escalera to climb over that pesky 14-foot wall. In the meanwhile, here’s some oldies-but-goodies to ...
Mexican courtship and legal v. illegal immigration.
Dear Mexican: You mentioned in the past that your Dad is against illegal immigration, but that's a voice you never hear. Why aren't the legal immigrants and legal aliens “vocally outraged” about the illegals who ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 2.11.13
The Mexican's advice for finding out your Latino heritage late in life.
Dear Mexican: I'm 39. My stepdad—who raised me—just died. This freed my mother to tell me (stepdad always forbade it) that the man I thought was my biological father all this time was not. The ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 1.28.13
The Mexican defends italics and why Univision is so damn defined.
Dear Mexican: Grammar question/rant. If Spanglish is a legitimate dialect/language, why do you feel the need to italicize every instance of code switching? I seriously doubt that when you speak you emphasize every puta palabra ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 1.21.13
¡Ask a Mexican! — 1.21.13
Dear Mexican: In 1983 or 1984, I was walking home from work down Haight Street in San Francisco one evening and stopped into Watusi Records to look through the dollar cutout bin. I flipped through ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 1.14.13
Immigrant reproduction rates and the real story of the Mexican Cristeros.
Dear Mexican: Can you please tell me something? How do you think it’s fair that all the people that come to our country and stay get treated far better than some of the people who ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 1.7.13
The Mexican explains Latino love for classic cars.
Dear Mexican: What is it about Mexicans and collecting old cars? I have three Mexican neighbors with middle-class incomes but in each case, when the old car or truck wouldn't run anymore, they would buy ...
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Dear Mexican: Many of my friends think I'm loco for playing with my dad the way I do. See, mi padre is now retired and living in Mexico, and is very worried that I am ...
The Mexican's annual Christmas gift guide
Dear Readers: Behold your favorite Mexican's annual Christmas gift guide, where I give shout-outs to some of my favorite books that deserve your money this holiday season! And for once, I won't recommend my books—¡Ask ...
Is it ethical to haggle vendors in Mexico and can Mexicans date Asians without people making fun of them?
Dear Mexican: Why is it that many Mexican women hate on me for having an Asian (Korean to be exact) novia? I notice this in a lot of places. We go to the store and ...
The guest worker program and an informal Spanish lesson.
Dear Mexican: In President Bush's State of the Union address, he reiterated a need for a guest worker program. What is your opinion of such a program? The program seems like mierda that screws people ...
La Raza pride and Lindsay Lohan's Chichis
Dear Mexican: I have a problem I need your advice on. My granddaughters were born and raised in Georgia, as was their father. Their knowledge of their culture is zero and I have tried to ...
Why are Mexicans more prepared than Gabachos at the DMV?
Dear Mexican: Lately, I've noticed a few bands, como Voodoo Glow Skulls, have embraced ska music in both at home and in Mexico. I was curious what the appeal is for Mexicans to ska music? ...
La causa, lard and the the search for a Mexican virgin.
Dear Mexican: When are the racial minorities going to give up la causa? We have a black man for el presidente, and as a white middle-aged male, I couldn't be happier. I have been hearing ...
Should I Go to Spain to Learn Spanish?
Dear Mexican: After a year in Spain, I speak more-than-decent Spanish, and I want to get a job in the non-profit field where I can put it to use and pursue social justice and all ...
Do Mexicans eat chocolate?
Dear Mexican: Why is it that every Mexican I know refuses to eat chocolate? My in-laws drink things I wouldn't clean my carburetor in. They fill their piñatas with every kind of hard candy—but no ...
Why won't my Mexican mom accept my gabacha girlfriend and what's a huipil?
Dear Mexican: As a college educated Mexican-American, I had my fair share of Chicanas in college…all of which my jefita considered putas with books. But now that I graduated, I'm going out with a gabacha ...
Clucking commercials and 'leprecanos'
Dear Readers: The Mexican must take the week off because his home paper is publishing its annual Best Of issue—if the devil ever condemns you to visit Orange County, pick up the OC Weekly! To ...
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Dear Mexican: Why do so many Chicanos claim to be Aztec? Chicano stuck in leavenworth Dear Gabacho: You’re right. The beaner love for everything Aztec mostly stems from the Chicano Movement, which appropriated various Mexica ...
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Dear Mexican: Hey mojado: since when do you think it's okay to fuck up the facts of your wretched culture and concentrate on the few who have done something with their lives? For the most ...
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Dear Mexican: Why do gabachos always feel the need to talk about money or trips they have taken? I always notice this when I am at any restaurant, like they don't have nada más de ...
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Dear Mexican: Is it just me, or has what to call our friends from south of the border become a partisan issue? While taking in both political conventions over the last couple of weeks, I've ...
Of DREAMers and defecators
Dear Mexican: I was in a taco shop in the bathroom stall and saw your racist dribble in La Prensa San Diego (the paper was being used as ass wipe I guess). Whatever you say ...
What's in a shirt and why the Latino obsession with death?
Dear Readers: The Mexican is currently smuggling mescal out of Oaxaca and into hipster bars nationwide, and thus gives you two oldies-but-goodies. But I do want to give a shout-out to Olympic silver medalist Leo ...
Why do Mexicans rape so much and why do they always yell "Cu-le-ro" at bands they love?
Dear Mexican: So often when we see Mexican bands perform in the U.S. and Mexico, they crowd at some point starts chanting "¡Cu-le-ro!" ("Ass-hole!"). Why does the crowd yell "Cu-le-ro" at a band that they ...
Griping Gabachos and Bad Publicity
Dear Mexican: I'm a Mexican-American high school student, and just as patriotic as the Joneses who live next to me. In my neighborhood, a gabacho got mad when someone hung a Mexican flag and ended ...
Being illegal south of the border and serpents in the cilantro
Dear Mexican: I know I might sound like a gabacho borracho, but I’m really just a gringo trying to make progress towards getting work legally in Mexico, a side of the immigration debate we rarely ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 30, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Readers: The failure by the Senate to pass the DREAM Act – which would’ve made citizens out of young adults who came to this country as children and go to college or join the ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 16, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Last year I went to Chihuahua and noticed the Mexicans I was traveling with said gras – like a shortened version of gracias. Is this a common thing? Can I say it? Currently Hot Unlike ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 09, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Why can AeroMexico Airlines fly through any kind of weather conditions to get to and from the United States, but any kind of little ice sprinkle or heavy wind and domestic airlines in ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 02, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
This güero downloaded the Arizona S.B. 1070 bill, did a search on the document for “Mexicans,” and did not come up with a single hit. What’s up with that? So, since you are such an ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 04, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
While waiting for radiation treatment, I noticed a sign on the wall: “If you are pregnant or may become pregnant… ” The Spanish translation used the word embarazada. Why “embarrassed” to be pregnant for these ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 28, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I majored in history at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I believe was part of the Gadsden Purchase, the last piece of old Mexico the U.S. “acquired.” That got me thinking: ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 14, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What is it with the Mexican hang-up on body parts? When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was struck by a cannonball at the knee in one of his 8,000 wars, his right ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 30, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL DREAM EDICIÓN Dear Mexican: Why is it so hard to find an educated Mexican – or hell – even a Latino man who isn’t a pretentious hijo de papi, or thinks he is a ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 23, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What punishment could America give that would FINALLY make crossing America’s borders – repeatedly – unpalatable to Mexicans? Remember, our original immigration requirements were “good moral character” and a “working knowledge of English.” ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 16, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I work at a large Orange County hotel where 80 percent of the employees are Latin American, primarily Mexican. I love working with them. However, one thing that bothers me is that when ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 09, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL MEXICAN INDENDENCE DAY EDITION Dear Readers: ¡VIVA MÉXICO, CABRONES! Happy 200th cumpleaños to America’s favorite country, to the land of pretty señoritas and eternal economic crises, to the world’s greatest, drunkest bola de hijos ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 02, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL LABOR DÍA EDITION Dear Mexican: I’m a naturalized citizen born in Ciudad Juarez (the most dangerous city in the world, thanks to the drug cartels) but I work for la migra. I get a ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Aug 26, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: It’s one of the worst times ever to be a Mexican, worse than Santa Anna and Cortés, worse than the Zoot Suit riots – man it is worse now than when frickin’ Pete ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Aug 19, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Readers: The Mexican’s longtime amigo, William Lobdell, author of the memoir Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America – and Found Unexpected Peace, wrote in recently regarding my ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Aug 12, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: As a proud New Yorker, I gotta ask: WTF is up with Mexican food in this city? Sure, we’re used to getting owned by California and Texas and even Chicago when it comes ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Aug 05, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I am a retired gringa living in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Most of us foreigners here are liberal and sympathetic to the immigration problem, which the U.S. Congress refuses to address in a meaningful way. ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 22, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I heard Mormonism is a quickly spreading religion down in ye olde Mexico. What is it about this religion that a lot of Mexicans find so fascinating? --Jack Mormón Dear Gabacho: Historically? Mexico ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 08, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I’m a (poor) white girl myself, but I have to ask: What’s the deal with all the rich white girls playing such a big role in Fiesta? Why is it always rich white ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 01, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL POETRY EDITION Dear Readers: The Arizona pendejas emboldened hundreds of Know Nothings to boast that they’re not racist if they support SB 1070. I’ll indulge the protestations with apologies to Kipling… If you can ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jun 24, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Why do the Mexicans HATE American soccer and “hate” (bolded, underlined, and italicized) Landon Donovan? -Uncle Sam’s Army Brat Dear Gabacho: Because Mexicans hate Americans – DUH! Geez, this is the literary equivalent ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jun 17, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I’m a civil rights lawyer. I sue the San Diego Minutemen.Whenever the Minutemen are accused of being racist they always say something like, “I’m part-Hispanic,” or they’ll note that some of their members ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jun 03, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATION EDITION I work at a high school where there’s a significant number of our students without papers. Two students that I worked with for four years graduated last June (one from Mexico, ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for May 20, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Why shouldn’t the U.S. adopt the same type of anti-illegal immigration laws that Mexico keeps on its books? Illegal aliens in Mexico are felons – so why do Mexicans complain if the U.S. ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for May 13, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL ANTI-MEXICAN SLUR EDITION Dear Readers: I was supposed to deliver this column for Cinco de Drinko, but Arizona’s reprehensible S.B. 1070 bill had to rear its ugly head. Big shout-outs, though, to the Phoenix ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for May 06, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL ARIZONA BUYCOTT EDITION Dear Readers: All together, now: ¡A LA CHINGADA WITH ARIZONA’S SB1070! For those of ustedes too occupied with your Drinko por Cinco hangover, the initiative (signed a couple of weeks ago ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Apr 22, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I have a friend who frequently wears a T-shirt that boldly states in big, bad-ass, Old English letters, “Hecho en México.” Five facts follow: *He was born 23 years ago in the United ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Mar 25, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I just read that Speedy Gonzales is getting his own feature film and will be voiced by George Lopez. I read in The Hollywood Reporter that Lopez said he gave Speedy his “Latino ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Feb 25, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I’m a lifelong resident of Arizona and have worked side by side with illegals for 25 years as a bloquero. In all that time, I never knew ONE of them to be an ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Feb 04, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: How can a formerly proud Latina like myself feel proud to be Mexican again after my beloved relative was murdered in Mexico by narcos while visiting? I still have love for my heritage, ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jan 21, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Half-Mexican here. I was fortunate enough to catch your column while I was visiting for the holidays. I have a comment in regards to [the gabacho who wrote the letter] Sick of All ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 23, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL NAVIDAD GIFTS EDITION Dear Mexican: Can you recommend a solid, accessible history of California and Arizona so I can learn what really happened when the U.S. gobbled Aztlán? --La Chica Confundida Dear Wabette: The ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 12, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Whenever I see an ad for a Mexican ramera, they always describe themselves as “spicy.” Are Mexican women hiding habañeros in their panochas? --Concha Curious Dear Gabacho: “I wish I could say that ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 29, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: For most of my life I was oblivious to the hate that Mexicans have for Salvadorans. Once I became engaged to my Salvi girlfriend or whenever I would tell any Mexican that I ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 08, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
If the pupusa is king in El Salvador, then the country’s tamales fall somewhere between viscount and baron in its culinary peerage: a standard but by no means necessary component. There are great Salvadoran food ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 01, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL, ANNUAL CANADIAN EDITION As a Mexican-American, I’ve lived in St. Louis for about 17 years and have seen a substantial influx of my brethren. Nevertheless, I’m for border security – against the no-good, godless ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 24, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
In Garfield comic strips that appeared earlier this year, Garfield is wearing a sombrero and taking siestas. While cute and all, isn’t this the sort of thing we’ve been striving to stop? –Odio Odie Dear ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 17, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
We gabachos get differing reports regarding the Reconquista. Some say it’s a genuine movement, well underway. Others claim it’ll never happen, but that it’s useful as a slogan that antagonizes white America and energizes young ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 10, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Why do Mexicans make the sign of mucho dinero with a gap between their thumb and index fingers, as if holding an imaginary wad of bills? - -El Zorro Chupagringos Dear Gabacho-Sucking Fox: Because if ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Aug 20, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: My family hasn’t been long in this country, came here because of lousy treatment by other Europeans, and didn’t live close enough to the southern U.S. border to have exposure to Mexico or ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Aug 06, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL SOCCER EDITION Dear Mexican: Why does El Tri act like pendejos every time the U.S. men’s national soccer team kicks their ass? They won’t even shake hands or exchange jerseys after the game and ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 30, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Special Houston Edition I’m curious about your take on English versus Spanish. I am an obviously Mexican-American woman, but sometimes I get angry at people that come up to me and assume I speak Spanish. ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 16, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: How can I get Mexicans to arrive to a meeting ON TIME? – Punctual Pete Dear Gabacho: Tell them you’re offering green cards on a first-come, first-serve basis. And then diles a gabachos ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 09, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Why do Mexicans make up stupid names? I’m not talking about indigenous names that sound different, but when you say them, they have a standard pronunciation. I’m concerned about names that are entirely made up, ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 02, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Looking back recently on my distant youth in northwest Ohio, I came to the realization that the sweetest, most beautiful girl this gabacho ever went out with (indeed, in my entire senior class) ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jun 04, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
I am a Chicano in Connecticut. I moved from Arizona to the East Coast for my dream job. I have to admit that I’m still homesick. Connecticut is a completely different world. To sum it ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Apr 30, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Readers: As you drinko por Cinco this May 5th, please take this column around listing songs that mariachis will actually, gladly play instead of having to glumly strum through the umpteenth “La Bamba” and ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Apr 16, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: You mentioned that conservatives can’t have an argument against illegal immigration without it degenerating into a diatribe against culture. Here’s an argument that has nothing to do with culture: In California, we now ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Apr 02, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Why aren’t more Mexicans talking about the economic destruction that NAFTA has caused in Mexico and the role it plays in the immigration problem? The state of Guanajuato, home state of former Mexican president Vicente ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Mar 12, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Not sure if this has been asked before, but how do you feel about Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio? I think the guy’s a racist who’s just out to get Mexicans to fulfill his ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Mar 05, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Readers: Before we move on to your spicy preguntas, a bit of housecleaning. Primeramente, gracias to all the Know Nothings who responded to my 100-word-essay challenge asking them to justify loving legal Mexicans but ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Feb 26, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I believe that the words people use to describe other people, intentionally or unintentionally, reflect their political values. You described César Chávez as hating “illegals” and as being ethnocentric early in his career. ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Feb 19, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What is the deal with Mexican denial when it comes to dealing with child sexual abuse? I know counselors who tell me that it’s a big problem trying to get Mexican families to ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Feb 12, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I have a question from one Mexican to another: Why do gabachos think we know everything about plants? During conversations with the estadounidenses, I will get asked about plants, pruning, how to keep ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Feb 05, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I can’t tell you how disappointed I’ve been these past few days, as a U.S. citizen and ciudadano mexicano, how I’ve been seeing more and more stories about los narcos and how the ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jan 22, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Mi hermano y yo tenemos un dispute. We all know that Mexicans love their bistec sliced muy thin, but why? My brother is adamant that the diet of free-range vacas mexicanas results in ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jan 08, 2009
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I’m a Spanish teacher, and I’ve been hearing my students say a phrase that I am unsure what it means (if it truly means anything, which they swear it does). They say it’s ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 26, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I hear all the time that 12 million illegal immigrants live in the United States. Is that true? Who counted them? How did they do it? Is there a turnstile at the border ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 30, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I know you’ve been asked variations of this before but I’m going to ask you again anyway. I’m a gay white guy and I’ve had three relationships with Mexican men in the last ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 23, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: One of our Arizona politicians once said on the PBS show Horizonte that the “crime” of being undocumented in this country is equivalent legally to that of a parking ticket. Do you know ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 16, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: A group of very young soldiers in the Mexican Army were being chased through the castle by U.S. Marines. At the end of the chase, the Mexicans realized they were trapped on a ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 09, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: A friend of mine calls Mexicans “wabs” but being a dumbshit, doesn’t even know what it means– except that it’s not P.C. What’s it mean? -ThesaurusaurusMex Dear Gabacho: “Wab” is a slur that ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 02, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
¡Dear Mexican: I’m half-Catalan, and the women on my mom’s side of my family have spent most of our lives being hated by Mexicans. I’ve never understood it. My mom and aunts warned me as ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 25, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What is an anchor baby? I am a 45-year-old male born in the U.S.A. My mother was born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Serbia), and my father was also born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Croatia). My ...
