Re: Racism in Mexico

by slainte39 Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:58 pm

Lady Otter Latté wrote:
CHILLIN wrote:And lets be fair here - some Mexicans cannot stand gringos, an instant dislike. Some of them may have had bad experiences in the North, I don't know. Other than I know it is real, and may be shocking the first time you encounter it.

Perhaps I live in a happy bubble but after nine years here I still await the shock of encountering the Mexicans who can't stand gringos. I have always been treated respectfully and warmly wherever I go and whatever I do.

No problem until they go from being a gringo to a gabacho.

by Rosa Venus Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:08 pm

Clete wrote:All you need to do is watch Mexican TV. You'll rarely find a dark complexioned person as a newscaster or star of a telenovela. And the word "indio" is used as a pejorative by many people here. But prejudice here is probably more pronounced in classism. Upper classes rarely befriend "los de abajo", they send their children to colegios not solely for a better education but in order for them to not have to mix with the chusma of the working classes.

From what I've seen, this is so entirely accurate it's worth repeating.

(I don't care about the "gringo" conversation sidetrack. I'm the very definition of a gringo and have always been well-treated by Mexicans, tránsitos excluded. But tránsitos are the general jackasses who work on opportunity, based on perceived nationality or skin-tone or otherwise.)

by slainte39 Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:56 pm

or otherwise.......
Pienso el color de preferencia es café .....billetes de quinientos pesos. Very Happy

......lo siento, pero soy un pobre., tengo solamente un billete de la poeta.

by CHILLIN Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:09 am

brigitte wrote:What is a gringo to you?? An American, a white person? A foreigner ?

By the way we do not use that word in Paris so why are you using it? It means nothing there.

True nuff Brigitte, the word in Paris would be "Yanks", and in London, "Bloody Yanks" - no matter if you are from Canada or the U.S.A.

by brigitte Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:01 pm

We do not use the word Yanks in Paris either..

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