As my Latin American manager used to say, ‘she’s a house Mexican’, it’s field Mexican’s that are the problem’. He would later explain that ‘house Mexican’s’ have an apparent European look about them while ‘field Mexican’s’ have that Latin American Indian look about them. If they were in between they were just ordinary ‘peasants’.
We had our contingent of Hispanic Engineers in the Fortune 500 company I worked for. They we’re definitely all House Mexican’s types.
Where was that? Some of my uncles, aunts, cousins are dark like Indians/Natives, some are light and Basque looking, some of us are in between with red or light brown hair-and most Texas Latinos are a mix of Native/American Indian and Spanish-Mestizo. But I can assure you that we don’t call one another house Mexican or field Mexican, any more than we would call black people house or field n****-that is insulting and sounds like Jesse Jackson-and I don’t know many Latinos who vote democrat...