¡Ask a Mexican! 03.31.11
Dear Readers: Rather than me punk ustedes with a prank, I give you the cruelest joke of all – ex-congressman and eternal Know Nothing Tom Tancredo! In return for him graciously allowing us to debate ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican! 03.17.11
Dear Mexican: Why does the chupacabra only live in Hispanic areas (including the South Bronx) but never in rural Mississippi? - Spooked in Soho Dear Gabacho: This column is not ¡Ask a Hispanic!, but I’m ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 03.10.11
Dear Mexican: When the Second World War ended, the Germans and Japanese had to return all territories they had acquired by force. The U.S. acquired most of the West by force from Mexico. Agreed the ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican! 03.03.11
Dear Mexican: I am a mocha skinned woman with long, curly hair and darkbrown eyes. Puerto Ricans always ask if I am Puerto Rican, Dominicans just come and start speaking Spanish, Cubans ask if my ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.24.11
Dear Mexican: The perception of Mexico having a defective culture has come up in your column several times. The U.S. was invaded by settlers who came to live here permanently. Mexico was conquered by gold-seeking ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.17.11
Dear Mexican: I’m a white, rural, ninth-generation Texan who left the farm and is now a lawyer for a large corporation. Maybe a quarter of the clients they assign me speak Spanish, so the company’s ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.10.11
Dear Mexican: I’ve been watching you speak about your column; you keep reiterating that this is supposed to be a joke. I have a question for you: It would be okay for a Caucasian to ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.03.11
Dear Mexican: My gabacho friends look at me askance for being a gabacho who enjoys mariachi music. They, and even some of my Mexican friends, run and hide when I go a step further and ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 01.27.11
Dear Mexican: A few years ago, I moved to Tucson and noticed that there were little piles of stuff accumulated on the medians of the main roads. It looks like what was Dia de los ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 01.20.11
Dear Mexican: I’m not Mexican (or from a Spanish-speaking country for that matter), but I get mad when the gabachos in my town say that all Mexican girls do is take drugs and get pregnant, ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 01.13.11
Dear Mexican: I think I have a Mexican problem. I have a home in sunny California on a property with an abundance of agave cactus and Century plants growing along the street. Every year for ...
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¡Ask a Mexican! 01.06.11
Dear Mexican: I was today alerted to the problem of trash dumped on the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. There are lots and lots of piles of trash – looks like clothes – in a wash ...
¡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 ...
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Dear Mexican: I live in a suburb of Dallas, am super-white, and make decent money. Naturally, I have a Mexican gardener/lawn dude who works his ass off, has 14 brothers and sisters in Guanajuato, employs ...
¡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 24, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I am a mutt. My father’s father was an illegal immigrant from Mexico. My mother’s father was an illegal immigrant from Ireland. My surname is Mexican and is usually mispronounced by gabachos and ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 18, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Why do you think Argentinians think they are superior to Mexicans and other Latin Americans? Could it be because they have a British island? Che Chingón Dear Wab: One of the few jokes the Mexican ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 11, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
What’s the deal with all the Mexican song lyrics about lágrimas and llorando? We all know most Mexican men are más machos dudes and all that, so why all the songs about tears and crying?Even ...
¡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: ...
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Dear Mexican: When my friend’s mom posted jokes on Facebook about Mexicans, I just had to say something. She responded with “My best friend is a Mexican,” and “I know lots of Mexicans and I ...
¡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 ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
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Dear Mexican: Mexico is truly an amazing, beautiful country!Huge oil reserves, mineral deposits, tourist potential! God gave Mexico every possible advantage.Yet the Mexican locusts, in all their wisdom and intellect, have turned it into a ...
¡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 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 ...
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Dear Mexican: Most Mexicans I know (myself included) feel it’s a terrible disrespect to keep old photos around of you and your ex, and vice versa. I’d never keep pictures of me and an ex ...
¡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 ...
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SPECIAL SUMMER EDICIÓN Mexican seafood cocktails look like the perfect summer lunch for a girly girl like me – cool, light, high in protein, low in carbs – but every time I go to a ...
¡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, ...
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SPECIAL ETHNIC STUDIES EDITION Dear Mexican: My sister and I were talking about all the hatred against Mexicans in our state and she asked, “Why do they hate Mexicans so much in Arizona?” -Encabronada en ...
¡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 ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
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Dear Mexican: I live in a Northeastern city, and a game I play with myself during the cold, wintry months is counting how many Mexicans I see without a heavy coat or appropriate outer-garment. Believe ...
¡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 ...
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SPECIAL MINUTEMAN PROJECT EDITION Dear Readers: In honor of April Fools’ Day, I turn this column over to Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project movement, to answer your preguntas. Enjoy! Dear Mexican: I’m a ...
¡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 ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
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Dear Mexican: By now, I’m sure you’re aware of all the hate crimes against Hispanics in the last few years. All the hate crimes against Hispanics have been because they’ve been thought to be Mexican ...
