2 Mexican Lies, 1 New Truth
IntroductionThere were a lot of things being told to to me about Mexico. From my family, from the media, and what was enough from me to stop looking into Mexico was the cartel decapitation video with the funky sounds of funky town in the back ground. That was in the early 2000s and while violence…
Gringo Tax…But Im Mexican
The Accent Tax: When Your Spanish Marks You as Easy PreyYou spent thirty years in California calling yourself 100% Mexican, but it only took thirty seconds at a Tijuana fruit stand for someone to charge you double because your vowels sounded, weird. That’s the thier favorite way to describe what our accent sounds like.In the…
Mexican but not enough…
Living in the US, I was afraid of racism, discrimination, and, for lack of a better word, being an alien. That never happened, though; I went through the schools and grew up with my peers just like anyone else did. All the bad stories and histories that prepared me to live like an alien never…