Kategori: Pocho sentimientos
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Quinto 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 don’t see themselves in those color lines though their…
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I-d
Now and then I manage to hear my own self speak. An ungodly accidental omniscient ens about. It turns out that hearing oneself isn’t so productive. This time I happened to hear myself. And I thought: who am I? This question might just seem trivial for some. Specially monolinguals. I can choose between three languages…
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We-e
As an American individual it is very hard for me to follow the We doctrine. Afterall, what is most rewarded in our American ens is the almighty I. Here in Sweden I have had to give in to the We collective. This hasn’t been easy at all. It is perhaps no wonder that it is…
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Evolv
Incredible, I seem to have extricated myself from one of the most dominant issues that impregnate the Xicano ens: immigration. I don’t know why, exactly, we xicanos entangle ourselves so much with immigration. Immigration as phenomena to live the everyday, to give rise to consciousness, that thing you do when you wake up in the…
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Tajm
I like the swenglish version of the word time. They write it the way I titled this post, tajm. It occurred to me that I place a somewhat sentimental value to it inasmuch as it reminds me of the Spanglish word taimar, which means to tame, because tajm happens to have nearly the same phonological…
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palabras
Never in the course of humanity has there been a better time to be a Xicano ese. Prouder can’t One be.
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The Metrosex in me
When I go the market I look for fresh produce be it vegetables, fruits or, je! beer. Yet the brits somehow have a weird and twisted meaning to it that just baffles the living daylights out of my Xicano skull. Israel in fresh Lebanon strikes Fresh fighting on Lebanon border Fresh Lebanon bombing kills three…
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Que vivan los muertos de la guerra
Listen: Los ABCs ¡Qué vivan los muertos! Sing Along Download the song! Los ABCs: is a five-minute Xicano docu-animation cataloguing the real-life testimony of skeletons who have returned to tell their stories of life and death at war. Do you remember your ABCs? No? Well, you’re in luck. Sing along with this group of animated…
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the hyphen in mexican-american
Dedico este poema a mi amigo Luis A. López, Aztec Poet at large. I am Xicano mexicano ese though not del Otro Saite. with spanish colors my brown iris paints la Línea, el bordo, muros and walls of my cantón homes. I became what el desierto made out of me. With the aid of a…
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Bilingual
We all remember that afternoon. The clouds hung at an uncomfortable low and the heat made the humidity stick. It was then the town council in all its wisdom had decided to pass a non-bilingual bill, despite the majority of the town’s opposition to it. What hurt more was councilman Richard Rodriguez vote. He, raised…