Posted on 05/15/2014 3:29:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I don’t think rejection of education is a characteristic of Mexicans. I know a number of college-educated people from Mexico, and even the laborers I know are determined that their children will get a good education in the U.S. I think it’s a determination to stay lower-class, and it can be found in any race and ethnicity. My white (German-descended) in-laws, for example ...
No but the vast majority of Black men think that educated Black men are “fags”. Quote.
This clown’s stuff appears in every free “alternative” paper ever produced to line parrot cages in the university areas of town.
Any college student doing a production floor internship is fully aware of being jeered as “college boy”, “book boy” , “Mr. Smarty pants”, “propeller head”, “book smart but dumb” , “lazy little faggot”, “Mr. too good for his own britches”, “gold brick” and the list goes on and on.
I guess we get to welcome the newbies into the real world as they belatedly learn the realities of life in the world as it has been since the dawn of time.
I'm sure if you could translate the above monikers into ancient Egyptian, you would find them scrawled onto the walls of the Great Pyramids by resentful laborers
I agree. (But not about your in-laws, I don’t know them)
If these folk are that sensitive to education — it makes you wonder how the pure lgbt faggotry of the democrat party is going down with Mexicans. Or the the blacks for that matter. It may just be that they figure you gotta take the bad with the....whatever. Maybe they just don’t figure.
When I went to school if a Mexican student was smart all the other Mexican kids would want them to do their homework or else.
You can take my word for it.
Then there is the “acting white” phenomenon.
My wife is Mexican and refuses contact with a lot of her family and she is an exception paying lots of taxes.
The problem here is that a great many educated men ARE sissies. If by sissies you mean men who aren’t able to handle tasks that a real man traditionally handled: minor repairs to house or car, changing a tire or towing a car, building a fire in the woods, hitting what he shoots at (or shooting, FTM), being able to defend himself or others, etc.
The geek or nerd stereotype has a lot of overlap with the sissie stereotype.
When TR assembled the Rough Riders, about half were western cowboys and such, and the other half from his society friends. Lots of needling of the society types for being sissified till the cowboys got their asses kicked a few times.
When I lived in NM, a number of our friends were of Mexican ancestry. All the women were adamant that their daughters marry Anglos.
Nice that the guy used Gabacho, a chicano racist term for anglo “invaders”, instead of other words. This isnt to be confused with the Mexican word(same thing except for context).
I think the answer is complicated. In Mexico, someone with a graduate degree is a “man of letters”, and regarded with some amount of deference. Scientists, especially, are held in high regard. There is a statue to Louis Pasteur in Mexico City.
As of 2012, Mexico graduates 130,000 engineers and technicians a year from universities and specialized high schools, more than Canada, Germany or even Brazil, which has nearly twice the population of Mexico.
However, for many years, immigrants from Mexico to the US were a “blue collar drain”. That is, oriented more to blue collar than white collar jobs. So less emphasis was placed on book learning than hands on and apprentice learning.
In the southwest it makes, or made anyway, a lot of sense.
There were essentially two groups of people, the Spanish/Mexicans who were Hispanic in language and culture, and the “Americans” who were English in language and Anglic in culture.
Led to some oddities, like black guys being called Anglo. But perfectly logical from the perspective of the Hispanics, who were simply identifying someone as “not Hispanic,” and of the dominant American culture.
When I was a kid in the ‘70s, my pediatrician was from Mexico. Very highly regarded, everyone sent their kids to him, his office was across the street from the elementary school.
I remember the big “Speedy Gonzales” is a racist cartoon parody of Mexicans controversy. It seems that ole speedy is revered as a national hero much the same way Mickey or Mighty are up here. And for the same reasons. I guess the morons that wanted to sterling the magnificent mouse into obscurity couldn’t believe the uproar of support in Mexico. Mexican kids were ready to declare war.
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