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Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican! 10.27.11
Dear Mexican: There’s something I’m concerned about, or bothered by. I was born and raised in Mexico, but I’ve been here for eight years. All the talk about 9/11 is too much, because every single ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 10.20.11
Dear Mexican: How can you explain the disparity between Japan and Mexico? Japan is a nation a fraction the size of Mexico with zero natural resources and suffered a devastating war of four years that ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 10.13.11
Dear Mexican: What’s up with all the elaborate, wrought-iron fences in the Mexican parts of town? It almost seems like everyone is trying to outdo each other with these amazing displays of metallurgy. Is it ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican! 10.06.11
Dear Mexican: I learned Spanish in school as a teen. Then, it seems, because I was young, everybody was an usted. I would like to practice speaking it, but am now an adult and don’t ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 09.29.11
Dear Mexican: Every time I ride my bike through the barrio in a city, the same question comes to my mind. Why do so many Mexican business owners sit huge stereo speakers outside their stores ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 09.15.11
Dear Mexican: I live in upstate New York and while we have a relatively small Mexican population, we have a large number of Puerto Ricans, especially in the community I live. Here’s my question: a ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 09.01.11
Dear Mexican: I see a lot of vatos around wearing the clam digger pants with the knee-high white socks and white sneakers. While this is nothing new, I’ve noticed recently that the shoes and socks ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 08.24.11
Dear Mexican: Lately, we have been trying to lighten the mood around the office with delicate bits of international confections. Just the other day at my birthday celebration, I quite insisted on a lilac-toned bomb ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 08.18.11
Dear Readers: Your faithful Mexican is putting the final touches to his coming magnum opus, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (out April 2012) and is thus at the rancho, getting handmade tortillas made ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 08.11.11
Here is my problem: I was raised in a typical gabacho family. My siblings and I all enjoyed a typical gabacho relationship. We are close as cats. I phoned my brother year-before-last, and was gratified ...
