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Sometimes I'm happy about being a Mexican American. Number one: I grew up eating Mexican food. Two: when the social justice set starts making noise my way I ca
by mgarfias 10y ago
Sometimes I'm happy about being a Mexican American. Number one: I grew up eating Mexican food. Two: when the social justice set starts making noise my way I can point out that my dad grew up chopping cotton and the only reason I didn't is because he happened to get drafted and went to college on the GI bill. Then I'm part of the party, they leave me alone and I can go back to being a right wing redneck Mexican geek-farmer.
- swozey 10y agoI mean, this goes for a lot of white Americans as well. The majority of us in GenX/Y (I'm early 30s, whatever I am) are second to third generation and our families came over in the 1910-1950s with zero prospects. I'm third generation, father and grandfather both US military (raised on a Tobacco farm), father drafted for Vietnam, not sure if my grandfather was drafted but he was a pilot at one point. Both sides of my family are from the Italian and German slums of NY (respectively). In fact, they lived in the Love Canal which was absolutely abysmal and thyroid cancer is rampant through the women in my family because of the toxic waste dumped there. The absolute disdain between my German and Italian family is immeasurable. It's kind of hilarious being an outsider to what they went through. I honestly can't think of one white person I know whose family has been in the USA for more than 2-3 generations. I know a LOT of Mexicans who have been here in TX for hundreds of years which I think is incredibly interesting. I'm so used to my friends having barely any history beyond the 1920s.