Multi-Kulti
Esto del multiculturalismo en los altiplanicies de Suecia como que va a cuentagotas. O quizá sea así en todas partes del mundo en donde las poblaciones entre más chicas más resistentes son al influjo de lo “ajeno”. La gente es reacia. Se…
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Recuerdo con cierta aprensión el día que me mandaron a comprar un kilo de tortillas con 2 dos coras. Una cora en Tijuana equivale a 25 centavos americanos de los EEUU. Así que eran dos monedas de esas. Me causa aprensión porque ese día tomé la…
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Xicanismo suffers from cultural encapsulation. Most Xicano figures are so immersed in a minority role that they can’t lift their heads to see that they are being studied by not just ourselves but by a host of international guest who take a great…
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I tend to adopt an attitude towards language that it’s nearly pristine in its stipulations since I exact a nativists view on language that cannot possibly meet the standards I want. That is, I want what it is said in L1 to be exactly the same as in…
Read MoreQuinto comment II
In relation to the Fifth Comment: Here in Sweden, Swedes can’t see beyond my ethnic look or what their eyes tell them I am. A brown person. So the idea of an American has also been hijacked by color lines. Although, much to my surprise Swedes…
Read MoreMalplaced Autoctono II
Y es por eso que me pregunto cómo es que viven los güeros en México. Y es que los mexicanos que vivimos en el extranjero damos cuenta de varias cosas que la élite de México no quisiera que nosotros supiéremos o rendir cuenta de ello. Una de esas es que…
Read MoreLa identidad tijuanense
Esta versión pronto aparecerá en el San Diego Reader en inglés también. A pesar del hecho de que el crimen acosa la vida cotidiana, y aunque usted no lo crea, no está uno acostumbrado ni al crimen ni a cadáveres pues, los tijuanenses de vez en cuando…
Read MoreJovita Gonzáles 8th comment
In A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles1 a seldom researched area is taken to task, namely, that of assimilation of Anglos in what is a predominantly Spanish-Mexican dominated territory era. Anglos converted to Catholicism and abade by Hispanic customs.…
Read MoreJovita Gonzáles 7th comment
Carmen Fought has done a remarkable job by giving us a structured form of ChE. I haven’t read Chicano English in Context through and through though but I have stopped in certain passages where my eyes have noticed the value in the observations or…
Read MoreBeware of camping Latinos
Forest Service warns Coloradans: Beware of camping Latinos By John Tomasic 8/28/09 6:41 PM In a presentation on recent discoveries of major marijuana-cultivation operations in Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service said it suspected an international cartel…
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