Why do Mexicans hang CDs from their cars' rear-view mirrors?
Don Gabacho wrote:
> ¡Ask a Mexican!
> Special New Mexico Edition
> by Gustavo Arellano
> September 5th, 2006 4:01 PM
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> illustration: Mark Dancey
> Dear Mexican: What's with Mexican-Americans who live in New Mexico
> claiming they're Spanish and not Mexican? Many actually get angry and
> combative if you ask them if they're Mexican. But if you look at them,
> they look more Indian than Spanish! Why have so many developed a
> deep-seated embarrassment of who they are? Why are many so ashamed of
> their heritage? - Albuquerque Amigo
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> Why are Mexicans in California proud of their Mexican roots but in New
> Mexico they're ashamed? - Hispano Hottie
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> Why do people in New Mexico (many of them my relatives) believe that
> they're Spanish and deny that the area used to belong to Mexico? - Bill
> Richardson for Presidente
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> Dear Readers: Ever since the Mexican first appeared in Albuquerque's
> Weekly Alibi, readers of that muy bueno paper continue to swamp my
> mailbox with this question; it now follows only "Why do Mexicans swim
> with their clothes on? as the most asked pregunta in ¡Ask a Mexican!
> history. The easy response is that New Mexicans are simply smarter than
> other wabs because no one in their right mind should ever claim Mexican
> heritage. Besides, Mexico's claim to New Mexico to the entire southwest
> United States, for that matter is as tenuous as the peso's value.
> Mexico ruled the Land of Enchantment from 1812 until 1848, a
> chronological fart between the much longer reigns of the Spaniards (212
> years), the gabachos (158 years) and the Native Americans (eternal).
> Mexico's lazy mestizos never made much effort to populate New Mexico,
> so many longtime New Mexicans can honestly claim a Mexican-free
> background. But those so-called Hispanos are delusional: even if a
> Hispano can proclaim his family clean of Mexicans, many Hispanos
> intermingled with gabachos or Indians (consult Ramón A. Gutiérrez's
> controversial 1991 study When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away:
> Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
> ). And even if a Hispano has no Mesoamerican blood whatsoever, his
> Spanish ancestors were the mutts of Iberia Jews, Arabs, ******* sons
> and other miscreants who fled the Inquisition for the northernmost
> border of New Spain. The Hispanic experience in America, whether you're
> Mexican, Hispano or even Guatemalan, is one of impurity, so Hispanos
> should stop with their Spanish superiority complex they're no better
> than Mexicans.
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> Why do Mexicans hang CDs from their cars' rear-view mirrors? - Poor Use
> of That Album
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> Dear PUTA: Any number of reasons. Mexicans love religious tchotchkes
> seven separate religious icons guard my car, from a rosary to a St.
> Jude prayer card to a statue of the Santo Niño de Atocha (venerated in
> New Mexico and Zacatec! as) so the CD you see dangling might just be a
> Virgin of Guadalupe mini-hubcap. Mexicans also like pretty, shiny
> things dig all the gold jewelry we hang from our earlobes and necks,
> our spinning rims, and our Three Flowers-brilliantined hair. Or
> Mexicans might hang CDs in an effort to stymie radar guns, a
> long-disproved urban legend that only proves Mexicans don't watch the
> Discovery Channel show Mythbusters, which devoted a 2004 episode to
> debunking that popular belief. But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a CD
> is just a CD. Maybe the offending Mexican wants the world to know about
> his favorite album but can't fit a sticker on the car because all those
> pinche bull decals, Calvin-****ing-on-something logos, Mexican flags
> and "¡Viva México", Cabrones! license-plate holders get in the way.
Hispanics are more superstitious then negroes!
ted
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