I constantly see Chicanos upset with us because we discriminate against them for not speaking our language, listening to our music or being too proud and I think maybe we are too proud of them or I don’t know, I don’t know what bothers them about us.
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No. Most are no sabo’s who never made an effort to learn the language in hopes of appeasing the white man and are so quick to not claim Mexico, except when it is convenient for them. Looking at you Selena Gomez.
They aren’t Mexican. If I saw anyone else who wasn’t Mexican calling themselves ones I’d call them clowns too.
I don’t identify as Chicano but as a Mexican Guatemalan American, the amount of hate I see towards Mexican and Latino Americans in general whenever someone asks a question about them is outrageous. I think some people here just hate them for no reason. I reconnected with my roots I’m learning Spanish I listen to Mexican music (I listen to a lot of Latino genres). I would like to visit Mexico one day I have distant family back in Puebla.
I’m a Chicana married to a Chilango, so not really the target of your question. However I don’t mind at all if people from LatAm don’t consider me Latina or Mexican or whatever. What does bother me is if they don’t believe that in the United States, I am considered Mexican and that I’m classified as Latina. The culture and society is different here in the States than in LatAm and, absolutely, in Mexico (or any other Latin American country) I’m a gringa. You can disagree all you want, but in the United States, I’m seen as Mexican.
When it comes to language, the only thing that makes me mad is when I get laughed at for having an accent when I speak Spanish, but then when people from LatAm speak English with an accent, I can’t say anything. It’s like, if you don’t want me to laugh at your accent, then don’t laugh at mine. Respect goes both ways.
i have no probem with them liking mexican things and wanting to learn about mexico, but i will not say you are mexican, its not even me being an ass, you just dont count in the eyes of the mexican law (there is conditions to get the mexican nationality) and in the eyes of people that were born and grown up here
yes
Naw it’s justified
Like others have said, they come and want to teach us about what mexican is, thinking that what is essentially American culture should be universal. Yes, latam based culture but it is still American.
We are hard on them because they don’t have self awareness on that.
Chicanos should acknowledge that they are not Mexicans and embrace their culture, which is totally different from ours. We do have some similarities of course, but we have differences as well.
I don’t see anything wrong on making this clear.
Must Chicanos don’t understand very well the Mexican culture. They may have Mexican parents or grandparents that made some Mexican dishes or follow certain traditions and think that they know Mexico very well, they suffer the dunning Kruger effect. They know a little about Mexico and think they are experts and debated you like they know, happens to me a lot in some subreddits about Mexican food. Example when I pointed out that we don’t used yellow cheese, with very few exceptions, they will argue that how his grandmother from Zacatecas do it🤦🏻♂️. They understand much better the essence of the American culture than Mexican culture since they grow up in the US. I think the Chicano culture is great by itself and they should not try so hard being something they are not.
I’m obviously not mexican, but I’ve seen the exact same thing in europe too many times(irish americans ). Americans have such a wierd concept of ethnicity, where they don’t even think there is an american ethnicity. Instead, they count your blood quantum and consider that your ethnicity.
In the rest of the world, discounting racists, your culture and ethnicity is what you grew up in. I’m Finnish, and I will always be Finnish, because I spent my first 20 years in Finland.
I’ve lived in mexico for a decade. I can get citizenship at this point. I will never be mexican by ethnicity. No matter how well I speak the language, listen to the music or how much I like the food. I can live here for 80 more years and my ethnicity won’t change. And there’s nothing in me that would want to change my ethnicity.
That doesn’t mean I have no right to be in Mexico, or I don’t belong here, or I don’t enjoy being here, or that my neighbors don’t want me here. It just means my cultural background isn’t the same. Apart from Speedy Gonzales(whom the Americans tried to cancel).
It’s only a question of identity because their home country treats them as someone who doesn’t belong.
In the same vein, if your grandparents are Finnish but you’ve lived your whole life in USA, you’re american. Obviously.
a country builded by inmigrants, discriminating inmigrants, is so lol for me as chilean
im a chicano and we are not bothered at people over the border. Its them talking shit to us and ruin our vibe. we call ourselves Mexican within an American context, other groups do that as well. But because Mexicans that have only ever been around other Mexicans dont understand the USA or its racial relations, we have to get through some not all Mexicans complaining about us. ive noticed most Mexicans dont care because they are busy with real problems in life. its the online ones that complain, idk if its jealousy, envy, but the hate is one way. the truth is we are not thinking about 99% of them when we think of Mexico. we are thinking about our family, the music, the food.
You do realize the majority of the descendants of Mexican immigrants don’t identify as chicano? That’s for a specific subset.
But ironic given the nature of your post.
You don’t see too many Africans Americans embracing African culture because they aren’t African
They built their own culture in the USA