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I find it interesting that after 500 years we Mexicans are still 
trying to explain our skin color.
My maternal grandmother was poor as a church mouse but was very 
proud of her white skin and my mothers blond hair and blue eyes, 
they were from Jalisco.  My fathers family was from Zacatecas, 
darker skinned with Mestizo blood lines.  When my father married my 
mother my maternal grandmother was very upset because he was dark 
skinned.  Her first question when babies were born was always "what 
color are they."  It's no wonder with this background as a child 
raised in a color concious California when people told me I 
didn't "look" like a Mexican I was proud, not something I am proud 
of now... As I grew up and learned the history of my genealogy I 
learned to take pride in all that I am and not the color of my skin, 
and now when someone askes me what nationality I am and they say the 
usual "you don't look like a Mexican" I always respond, "What does a 
Mexican look like?"  I also

Don't forget the "tara" in Taraumara (sp?) Indians in Chihuahua.
Memarge:)

Here is another link:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/WLSpanis19.asp#racial_te
rminology

So......according to the link above:
Coyote = Spanish (1/2), Indian (3/8), and Negro (1/8)

I doubt the science was ever that accurate.  As someone mentioned 
earlier, I imagine, it had more to do with your complexion and your 
parents complexion.  Besides someone who is a farmer is going to get 
more sun then someone who owns a hacienda.  They might have the same 
amount of Spanish and Indian blood but one is going to be classified as 
Espanol and the other will be classified as Mestizo.  Plus who could 
keep up when someone who was Coyote married someone who was mestizo or 
lobo, etc...

Just my two cents...
Angie

Thanks!
> 
> From: "Victor Villarreal" 
> Date: 2005/06/23 Thu PM 12:14:47 EDT
> To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ranchos] Re: Joseph's DNA
> 
> 

Literally, it means "cat instead of bear", but the original saying

is "gato por liebre", which would be "cat instead of hare".



Back in the old times, when people used to eat hares, rabbits and

what not, you had to watch out that you were not sold a cat for a

hare, as they would look about the same after taking the skin off and

cut the meat into pieces.



Does it make sense? 





--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com,
wrote:

> Excuse my lack of knowing the spanish language (shame on my

parents!), but what does the term "gato por oso" mean?

> >

> > From: "Emilie Garcia"

> > Date: 2005/06/23 Thu AM 12:59:21 EDT

> > To:

> > Subject: [ranchos] Joseph's DNA

> >

> > So, Joseph,  I couldn't make out a thing on your DNA results.  I

guess I am a surumata.  So, are

Literally, it means "cat instead of bear", but the original saying 
is "gato por liebre", which would be "cat instead of hare".

Back in the old times, when people used to eat hares, rabbits and 
what not, you had to watch out that you were not sold a cat for a 
hare, as they would look about the same after taking the skin off and 
cut the meat into pieces.

Does it make sense?  


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
> Excuse my lack of knowing the spanish language (shame on my 
parents!), but what does the term "gato por oso" mean?
> > 
> > From: "Emilie Garcia" 
> > Date: 2005/06/23 Thu AM 12:59:21 EDT
> > To: 
> > Subject: [ranchos] Joseph's DNA
> > 
> > So, Joseph,  I couldn't make out a thing on your DNA results.  I 
guess I am a surumata.  So, are you in the haplogroup for African-
Black or for Moroccan-Berber?  What other haplogroups are you in?  
All those numbers scared me.  How could I ever explain such a thing

Excuse my lack of knowing the spanish language (shame on my parents!), but what does the term "gato por oso" mean?
> 
> From: "Emilie Garcia" 
> Date: 2005/06/23 Thu AM 12:59:21 EDT
> To: 
> Subject: [ranchos] Joseph's DNA
> 
> So, Joseph,  I couldn't make out a thing on your DNA results.  I guess I am a surumata.  So, are you in the haplogroup for African-Black or for Moroccan-Berber?  What other haplogroups are you in?  All those numbers scared me.  How could I ever explain such a thing to my cousin?  Maybe the researchers are handing us a gato por oso?
> 
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Wow, all these words make me feel at home! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alberto Duarte [mailto:albertodua@...] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:59 PM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos] Re: Name Calling

My wife is from Los Altos, Jalisco, and she uses both words when she is mad.

Alberto.

--- John Gonzalez 1gnzlz@...> wrote:

> I've heard "tarugo"  and "tarado".  Tarugo as in
> "como eres tarugo"   Not being very smart,  almost
> like "como eres menso".  Tarugo, tarado, and menso are used in about 
> the same context.
> I know, I've been called all three at different times!
> 
> John
> 
> 1gnzlz@...
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: latina1955@... 
>   To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:26 PM
>   Subject: Re: [ranchos] Re: Name Calling
> 
> 
>   "Tarayata" sounds linked to "taragua" which I was often called 
> because I was considered lazy when I was younger - I simply didn't 
> enjoy doing the household chores while my

Irma,well said.

Next time you talk to your spanish friends, ask them
to send back all the gold they stole from Mexico (just
kidding).

Alberto.

--- Irma GomezLucero  wrote:

> Hi Emilie,
>     I have been enjoying alll of the recent postings
> on racial
> classification.  Excuse me for now jumping onto the
> soapbox.  :)  I hope
> that I don't offend anyone from what I am about to
> say.  I just don't like
> hearing ignorant racist remarks about Indians,
> Mexicans, etc., and people
> who feel superior to other ethnic groups.  Your
> Spanish friend sounds like
> someone with low self-esteem, (as well as possibly
> uneducated) and in that
> she feels that she should distance herself from
> those that she perceives as
> inferior to herself.  Heaven help her poor Mexican
> American husband that has
> to hear such racist comments.  
>     The Spanish I met in Spain when I travelled
> there are nothing like those
> immigrants from Spain or South America that I have
>

Comments:
I really don't believe 99% of the Mexican people know
their blood line(s)and/or the names of their
ancestors.

I've asked people from both sides (Mexico/US) if they
knew their blood lines or if they knew the names of
their great grandfathers, and most of them answered
"they didn't know."

As far as what was written on a baptism record,
regarding race type, I wouldn't put much believe in
it.

Alberto. 

--- Erlinda Castanon-Long 
wrote:

> In matters of race in the church records from Mexico
> I don't think the people being recorded had any idea
> what was being put in the record for nationality.  I
> have in one family, Mejia from the District of
> Jerez, 5 children with 4 different nationalities
> listed.  Mother is listed as Espanol, father is
> listed as Indio. Their children are listed as 1.
> Espanol, 2. Mulato, 3, Indio, 4 Mestiso and 5.
> Espanol... I have to assume some children were
> darker than others so the scribe made the decision
> what

Esperanza,

Here's a link to a partial list of colonial caste system:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mexcoahu/caste.html


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, latina1955@a... wrote:
> I could be wrong (my memory comes and goes with this stuff called 
menopause  
> - should be called memorypause), but I think coyote was a term used 
to 
> describe  the mixed blood of Indians and African.  
>  
> There was a chart (perhaps someone can recall it here?) that 
described the  
> various labels placed on the mixture of "races" during the early 
part of the  
> conquest, when race delineation was seen as important by the 
Spanish.  I'll  
> keep looking for this chart, but in the meantime, perhaps someone 
else on the  
> board has easy access to it for reference?
>  
> Esperanza

I just found an answer as to why, when my husband and I have roots in 
Mexico going back to the early 1700's, he and I look so different.  
In message #277 Steven Francisco Hernandez Lopez says "most people 
will eiher have a lot of Inidan, Mestizo, or Mulato line, or very 
little to one at all---all the surnames and families that I have so 
far posted----were of the Spanish Hidalgo class".

I recall some of these names being in my husband's family, and his 
aunt in Mexico City told me that his family on both sides, had never 
mixed with Indians.  To furter quote Steven: "Intermarriage was very 
uncommon---to do so would be to kill all chances of opportunity for 
your children and descendants for all time".  My husband's ancestors 
were always merchants, business owners or government officials."  
Mine were always "farmers" or "laborers".

So now there is a new term for me to wonder about;  The Hidalgo 
Class.  Is this where the term "Don" came from?  Many of my ancestors 
in the

well I'm just so happy you asked that question. I sent out invitations
to Ranchos2 to every new member. Some accept the invite others don't or
there are other reasons for not being a member (hey maybe its moderator
error). Regardless of the reason all one needs to do is ask and an
invite will be sent to them. Accept the invite and I'll have to process
your request and you're in.

there is a link in the links area of "Ranchos" called "Ranchos2" (off
all things) and that will take you to a link that if you click on it
will take you to the files area of Ranchos2 (which by the way is
currently at 83%capacity, which means I might need to get my wife to
open up a briefcase of her own one day soon and have her donate it to
the Ranchos group to accomodate the non-genealogy stuff for the group).

the invite is on its way for you Natalie,

also there are a few others of you that are not members but if you're
happy not having access to Ranchos2 then I'm happy. If sometime in the
nea

Where can I find information regarding how to properly access the files 
in Ranchos 2? How does one become a member? Thanks for your help.

Natalie

So, Joseph,  I couldn't make out a thing on your DNA results.  I guess I am a surumata.  So, are you in the haplogroup for African-Black or for Moroccan-Berber?  What other haplogroups are you in?  All those numbers scared me.  How could I ever explain such a thing to my cousin?  Maybe the researchers are handing us a gato por oso?

 

Emilie

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