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Emilie and all,

I've been enjoying your messages and agree with you about identifying 
myself as Mexican.  My 25 year-old son said it best when he told one 
of his friends that his parents were both Mexican, so that makes him 
Mexican.  He is pretty Americanized, but still appreciates his 
Mexican culture.  He doesn't define himself by his ethnicity, but 
that doesn't mean he isn't proud of it.

Emilie, I chuckled at your comment about Aztlan.  I'll have to 
remember to ask if it's south, east, north or west of Atlantis next 
time I hear it.

Maria

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie Garcia"  
wrote:
>
> Linda,
> 
> When some Anglo says "you don't look Mexican" it means that you 
don't look like his idea of Mexicans formed by most of the Mexicans 
he has seen---field or orchard workers, very dark, made darker by the 
sun, very small due to their mostly Indian blood, pitch black hair 
and eyes, poorly dressed, not too clean due to their constant labor 
in

For your information:

Publications by El colegio de Michoacán, including a few that deal
with "Nueva Galicia" and other historical topics.

http://www.colmich.edu.mx/publicaciones/indices/indice_titulo.asp

Victor
México

Good write up...
I have in the past felt that same way as you have
written.  And this is the reason I enjoy and indulge
in genealogy--to learn who I am and where I came from.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California

--- lareina2@...
wrote:


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The issues of acculturation and assimiliation run deep
and are painful in this land of multiethnic and
multicultural groups.  What do I call myself?  Who am
I?  Much of the pain of the generation that follows
the immigrant one often causes much confusion, and
sometimes, self-hatred and denial of

I was asked this past week at work (I'm a library clerk) by a black gentleman if I had Indian blood. I responded that I did, on my father's side but that it was so remote as to be almost impossible to name. (Moctezuma's daughters are my ancestresses.) My father's father's mother probably had Indian, but what kind, who knows?



Anyway, I wasn't insulted just surprised. The funny thing is is that my features are my Scots mother's but my coloring is a paler version of my dad's. I have salt and pepper hair like my Jerezana grandmother and her almond-shaped eyes. I have funny colored eyes...I don't think they're those eyes we were discussing earlier in December. Sometimes if my skin flushes or I'm red from being out in the sun, they're almost hazel. I DO consider myself Hispanic as opposed to Mexican because I had more Scots influence in my formative years and I'm married to a South American of Italian descent, so our family is more continental than Mexican. But I can't and don't

Good write up...
I have in the past felt that same way as you have
written.  And this is the reason I enjoy and indulge
in genealogy--to learn who I am and where I came from.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California

--- lareina2@... wrote:


---------------------------------
The issues of acculturation and assimiliation run deep
and are painful in this land of multiethnic and
multicultural groups.  What do I call myself?  Who am
I?  Much of the pain of the generation that follows
the immigrant one often causes much confusion, and
sometimes, self-hatred and denial of ancestry.  How
can I call myself a Mexican when I can speak only a
rudimentary Spanish and only visited the birthplace of
my grandma and great-grandma once?  When I visit
Mexico, I recognize its beauty and its devastation,
and when I land in the United States, I am happy to
drive my sedan, go inside my condo, and turn on my tv
to "Law and Order."  Both my parents are of Mexican
descent, but both were born in the US.

Linda I understand about them words. I consider myself a Mexican Indian
female. And I dont like it when someone calls me Chicana, Hispanice or
Latina. Because to me I am none of them titles. Just my 2 cents.

              ~~glo~~







From: "Erlinda Castanon-Long" 
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ranchos] dialoge of the dead?
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:08:57 -0000

Joseph, WOW!!!!

What a great format for airing our concerns about who we are as a
group of people as diverse and any other ethnic group!

My father hates to this day the word "Chicano" because in his younger
days in California it was used in a very negative, gang style manner.
To him it's a put down and very militant.  I guess that's how we pick
up our own racist attitudes, we learn them at home... I still cring
when someone calls me Chicana.. so much to unlearn and with the help
of forums like this I'm getting better!

thank you again Joseph
Linda in Everett

Oh what a photos exposition I went trough! Some tears it cost me. What 
a treasure! Cameras are time machines, the images are frozen but they 
rock and roll a world inside of us, innocent expectators, I traveled 
in the company of unknown people, but maybe it is the influence of the 
feeling "belonging to a group", but felt them like family. It is true 
then "nobody dies until it is forgotten". My mom past the way fiftheen 
years ago and she is so around me, when I see her in photos she is so 
photografed!   Leticia Leon Morales

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes  wrote:
> >
> http://www.historynothype.com/deaddialog.htm
> 
> DIALOG of the DEAD--An Interactive One-Act Play
> By
> Rubén Sálaz Márquez
> 
> © Copyright 2005 by Rubén D. Sálaz
> 
>  Dramatis Personae
> 
> Narrator (female), Chicano, Above-It-All, María (female), Latino, 
> Immigrant (female), Hispano.
> 
> Heckler, Policeman, Immigration Officer (female), Army Soldier,
Sheriff, FBI Agent. Two male stage hands.
> 
> Dual roles:  Heckler/Sheriff; Policeman/Stagehand.
> 
> Scene:  The stage is dark and bare except for the Narrator standing 
> behind an upstage, brightly spotlighted (overhead) podium. 

Joseph,

That play sure is thought provoking.  By personifiying the prevalent
views of different segments of American society in an imaginary (but
realistic) debate, the first reaction from the spectator (or reader)
may be to identify with one of the characters in the play.  

But by the way the author chooses to end all, he's

-----Original Message-----
From: ranchos@...om
[mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Arturo
Ramos
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:56 AM
To:
ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ranchos] Re: double
surnames

Erlinda:

The whole Chicano vs.

Erlinda:

The whole Chicano vs. Mexican-American vs. Latin@ vs. Hispanic debate 
is a very contentious one in the United States.  I think that all of 
those terms are very politically laden such that there is no single 
one that everyone would agree with.  There is an interesting episode 
where the renowned author Sandra Cisneros balked at being featured in 
Hispanic magazine because of such a disagreement.  She agreed only 
after the magazine agreed to show her on the cover in a profile shot 
with a fake tatoo reading "LATINA" across her arm.

There is an interesting article on this:

http://www.hispanicmagazine.com/2000/dec/Features/latino.html

I suppose that if you want to designate descendancy from peoples of 
Mexico, Mexican or Mexican-American would be the most precise.  I 
will leave my commentary at that lest I get myself in trouble.

Interesting thing though, I have run across documents where the 
indigenous peoples of the area around Colotlan and Totatiche would 
refer to

Joseph, WOW!!!!

What a great format for airing our concerns about who we are as a 
group of people as diverse and any other ethnic group!

My father hates to this day the word "Chicano" because in his younger 
days in California it was used in a very negative, gang style manner.  
To him it's a put down and very militant.  I guess that's how we pick 
up our own racist attitudes, we learn them at home... I still cring 
when someone calls me Chicana.. so much to unlearn and with the help 
of forums like this I'm getting better!

thank you again Joseph
Linda in Everett

I want to thank everyone for the input on double surnames and y versus 
de... I had forgotten that I use a double surname too!  I felt I 
didn't want to give up my Hispanic maiden name so just hyphenated it 
with my married name.  That makes me Castanon-Long, I guess in Latin 
America that would make me Castanon y Long ... I found at the family 
reunion that most of my female cousins from my generation did the 
same.  Many of us did not marry Hispanic but would have kept our 
maiden name regardless. Just like someone said, it's a matter of 
family pride..

One more question.. which is 'politically' correct to designate our 
nationality of origin if we or our ancestors were from Mexico... 
Hispanic, Latino, Mexican-American or American-Mexican?  I find I 
really upset some people when I call myself Hispanic. I'm told that 
excludes my Indio blood... People ask me what my nationality is 
because I'm just brown enough to not be Anglo but have light green 
eyes, my sister get's the same