r/Chicano

Obviously #1 is LA but my list after would go:

2. San Diego

3. Phoenix

4. Chicago

5. Texas cities tied( Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, etc)

I am white and want to dress like cholos. Eastern European White to be more specific. No Hispanic in me.

I thought I had a speech impediment.
That I was slow.
That maybe a muscle in my face had been torn wrong at birth.

But later I realized it was just an accent.

My tongue is the first in my bloodline forced to dance to this tune.
My mouth still reaches for home every time it opens.

English sits heavy on me.
Like teaching a river to flow backward.
Like tying branches of a tree into shapes they were never meant to grow.

My mouth reacts like a reflex.
Like autocorrect.
Constantly translating before I even have the chance to think.
Bending sounds into something more acceptable.
Something easier for others to digest.

There are certain words my tongue still trips over,
not because it is broken,
but because it remembers another language first.

People hear hesitation.
I hear generations colliding inside my mouth.

My mother tongue lives in the muscles of my face,
in the way I roll my r’s too long,
in the pauses where Spanish still tries to save me before English arrives.

Sometimes I envy people whose mouths were born belonging here.
Whose sentences walk out effortlessly without an accent dragging behind them like luggage.

But then I remember:
my tongue crossed borders before the rest of me ever could.

It survived.
Even after being bent into new sounds,
it still carries the echo of where I came from.

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i'm latina but i'm not mexican and i don't live in the united states. i like charlie brown shirts but i dunno if it might be inappropriate for me to wear them since i know they're pretty heavily associated with cholo culture. cholo culture isn't known at all in the country i live, only my family would recognise it but i still don't wanna offend anyone. other than the hypothetical charlie brown shirts my style isn't similar to cholo style, only similarity is the baggy clothes

I feel like we should pass legislation to correct the labeling of the descendants of native americans, specifically those with iberian lineage, as non white. historically speaking spaniards were not considered white, only Anglo-Saxons were.

My argument is that those that are predominatly native american should be labeled as native american or at the very least a mix, if we were to consider spaniards white.

while mestizo is a mixed category, it generally leans towards the spanish side.

why cant we be native orientated mestizos?

So I read somewhere that modern Chicano activists argue that framing everyone as Aztecs was a form of “Aztec imperialism” that erased hundreds of other distinct indiginous nations in Mexico and the southwest

Since Chicanos don’t typically have a indiginous connection could this be a viable solution

I’m curious on your thoughts

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