AltWeeklies Wire
Ask a Mexican: Insurance Omissionsnew
"My insurance company tells me 60 percent of accidents in California are with uninsured Mexican drivers. Why don't they just take buses like I did when I couldn't afford a car?"
Ask a Mexican: Are You Still Beating Your Senora?new
Loaded question aside, Mexican men are infamous for spousal abuse in the gabacho mind partly out of stereotype (the machismo cult, the most misunderstood cultural tendency since the American love of empire-building), but also partly out of truth.
Ask a Mexican: Pinche Chestersnew
"What is the deal with Mexican denial when it comes to dealing with child sexual abuse?"
Law & Border Hypocrisy, Part 982,776new
The Mexican can’t help but grin extra-grande when he hears people profess to love legal immigrants and hate the illegal ones.
Tags: Immigration, humor
Ask a Mexican: Cursing Kiddies, Dancing Gabachos, y Mucho Mas!new
A special four-pregunta edition.
Tags: language, humor & satire
Ask a Mexican: Special Navidad Shopping Guide Editionnew
A couple of columnas ago, I published a short list of my favorite books regarding Mexicans and Mexican-Americans and urged ustedes to submit better choices so that gabachos can have a Christmas shopping list for their favorite Mexicans or can understand nosotros better. Muchos responded.
Ask a Mexican: If You Have to Ask ...new
"Why is it that those of us who oppose illegal immigration are called racist by many Mexicans?"
Ask a Mexican: Counting Illegal Immigrantsnew
"I hear all the time that 12 million illegal immigrants live in the United States. Is that true? Who counted them? How did they do it? Is there a turnstile at the border tallying up illegals and stamping their hands with neon cartoon characters so they can go back and visit their familias?"
Ask a Mexican: Kicking Aztlannew
"In a column some time ago, you mentioned the Aztec prophecy claiming that 'their descendants would reclaim ancestral lands in the Southwest U.S., and guess what?' I'd appreciate it if you shed a little light on this statement."
Ask a Mexican: Special Canadian Editionnew
The Great Brown South meets the Great White North.
Ask a Mexican: Will Mexicans Queer the Deal on California's Prop. 8?new
Gentle readers: Most of you know Mexicans who live in California. Please, por favor, please tell them to vote no on Proposition 8, a resolution on California's ballot that seeks to ban gay marriage.
Ask a Mexican: Why do Mexican Women Hate Spanish Women?new
"I'm half-Catalan, and the women on my mom's side of my family have spent most of their lives being hated by Mexicans. I've never understood it."
Ask a Mexican: What is an Anchor Baby?new
In popular parlance, it's a term used by Know Nothings to deride the children of immigrants whom relatives can use to sponsor visas and other government goodies. Though the Know Nothings would love to have you believe only illegal Mexicans are capable of having anchor babies, cases like yours have been occurring since the days of Virginia Dare.
Ask a Mexican: More Shameless Self-Promotion (Buy Gustavo's New Book!)new
In honor of and to shamelessly promote my muy caliente libro (which deals with America's Gomorrah, the Reconquista and John Wayne!), I'm answering historical questions this week.
Ask a Mexican: Legal Mexicans Who Can Become American Citizens But Don'tnew
"What would you calculate to be the percentage of illegal Mexicans in the United States who actually want the whole enchilada of American goodness, with all its obligations, rights and privileges, when those privileges seem to be reduced nowadays to taking it in the ass from the American government in the name of some shady interest God-knows-where?"
