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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 > > > > > > > post to del.icio.us > post to furl > > 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 > > Why are Mexicans in California proud of their Mexican roots but in New > Mexico they're ashamed? - Hispano Hottie > > 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 > > 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. > > Why do Mexicans hang CDs from their cars' rear-view mirrors? - Poor Use > of That Album > > 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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