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im colombian, born in LA,raised in LA full time,part time in colombia(summers)
i kick it with pure mexican homies tho, we all still got the same latino sangre in us
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Cant say I'm Mexican cuz I'm not. Technically I'm American cuz I was born/raised in Houston, and the fact that my parents/grandparents were born in Texas probably makes me more American. But that's not to say I don't consider myself Mexican-American, cuz I will never deny my Mexican Ancestry, whether it was ever based south of Texas or not.
But to get to the answer, I'd much rather say either "Chicano" or "Mexican-American"...
"A Chicano lives in the space between the hyphen in Mexican-American" - Bruce Novoa
(I also don't believe Chicanos are necessarily of Mexican descent, although we did come up with the term for our people, I think it can apply to other countries as well.)
don't get me wrong I am very proud of my heritage.
My parents are from Mexico.
Know I am called India, because that is what I am by descent.
We are from an Indianginous people in Mexico, Tarahuamara.
But I refuse to be label myself.
Either way, be it Mexican-American, American by birth Mexican by descent (I find this offense to our Mexican born friends), from Honduras, Cuba, Puerto Rico, we are judged by the color of our skin, not where we are from, as well as how we carry ourselves.
Being Chicano, RAZA, is a state of mind, it's being proud no matter how hard someone tries to put you down. We are all people, our people, he have to stand together. Like someone famous once said, "united we stand, apart we fall". How many people can say who actually said that? (not a cringo).
All in all, does it really matter?!
We are all different races, different colores, we are all beautifull and can learn much from each other if only we weren't all so damn intolerant and too ignorant to see past out own nose to see how beautiful and wide range to world really is.
Once we open our eyes to this, we will finally realize that the world doesn't revolve around only one race. If this is what is most important to you in your life, you really need to take a closer look at your self.
I am BROWN and I am PROUD!
That is what I have tried to teach our young, there is nothing wrong with it, we have a very beautiful history and we should be proud of it, but not because of this are we to belittle anyone else.
I know I made more than one of you mad, put this is my point of view, no one has to like it, just like no one has to like the fact that spanish-speaking minorities are now that largest minoriy in the US (that's there way of say that we ARE the new MAJORITY).
Let's all learn to carry ourselves with PRIDE and RESPECT, all while respecting all others and inlighting them to who we really are.
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Hi, I'm new here and this is a favorite topic 4 me.
Chicano, it does have a radical ring to it and I think it does explain a lot.
To Anglos etc I often say Mexican American so I don't have to xplain wht Chicano is.
to other brown skinned people I expect them to understand what Chicano means.
I've tried hard to maintain my Mexican roots by travelling to Mexico and vistiing family there. Guadalajara and Mexico City and T.J. too.
I'm a Native American guy, I'm of mixed tribal backgrounds. My mom is Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. My dad is Choctaw, Kiowa, and Caddo. I'm pretty much almost fullblooded and proud to be so. I live in Colorado, where my town is mostly full of rich white people.
I don't speak spanish,well but i was learning in college, mostly to let these Mexican guys that don't speak english much, that I used to be in a band with. to know who I am and where I'm from. So we could be a little less confused culturally. Because when they first met, me they thought I was chicano. OR a mexican acting white. Things were sort of amusing and confusing. More to that Story Later IF YOU WANT TO know. Just ask!
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I think of my self as my tribal identity, I'm lakota, so I;m a Lakota man. Its my mom's culture, the Oglala Lakota, in Pine Ridge, in the pine ridge South Dakota. Thats what I know about culturally, I'm an urban Indian and I speak english as my first language, but I can understand and say a few things in Lakota.
When I was in that mexican band, I confused them because I didn't identify as mexican or chicano. They didn't know what to think of me
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