Email Author Gustavo Arellano

Awards

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  Ask a Mexican

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Ask a Mexican!

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 7, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 12-7-06"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 16, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 11-16-06"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 31, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 8-31-06"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Ask a Mexican

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 6, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, January 6, 2005

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 14, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, April 14, 2005

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 7, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, October 7, 2005

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2013 Stories by Gustavo Arellano

• Ask a Mexican on Guns in Mexico

  published May 23, 2013

  Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal, in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty of supplying guns that... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Spanglish, Incredible Expanding Cars, and Protestants

  published May 16, 2013

  Where did the notion of adding an -o to the end of an English word and assuming it makes it a Spanish word come from? More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Intra-Mexican Hatred and Immigration Travails

  published May 9, 2013

  Why is it that people from Chihuahua and Monterrey are such jackasses? They come from pinches ranchitos and talk about... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Mexican Pride and Speaking English

  published May 2, 2013

  Although I'm familiar with your column, I don't read it regularly. But today, I was struck by something you said in a recent column about... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Ranchera Music and 1950s Insults

  published April 25, 2013

  I have always liked ranchera music. As of late, I have wanted to get deeper into it, as far as the history, the culture, and especially the... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on the Great American Continent and Tamarindo

  published April 18, 2013

  What do we need to do to make the güeros understand we come in peace? As Mexicans, we are from this great American... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Advancements in Education

  published April 11, 2013

  We're in state testing this week at the high school where I teach. After the students finish a section, they can only sit and read or just... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Nuclear Families and Criticizing Gabachos

  published April 4, 2013

  Please explain to me why so many mexicanas seem to think it more important to stay home and baby-sit than to attend... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Heritage and Mexican Driver's Licenses

  published March 28, 2013

  About six years ago, my wife and I adopted a little baby boy. He is "pure" mestizo and we are complete wabs. I'm a... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Chingados and the Reconquista

  published March 21, 2013

  I'm living in Mexico part of the year. I'm learning Spanish but can't say I understand or speak well. I read several books about the history... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Voting and Lindsay Lohan

  published March 14, 2013

  I would be most interested in hearing your point of view regarding our raza always voting for someone with a Latino... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Guayaberas and Chinos

  published March 7, 2013

  Dear readers: The Mexican is currently dealing with deportation issues but will return next week once he builds his 15-foot... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Legal Immigration and Cheating

  published February 28, 2013

  You mentioned in the past that your dad is against illegal immigration, but that's a voice you never hear. Why aren't the legal immigrants... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Losing Jobs to DREAMers

  published February 21, 2013

  In the past, you have defended illegal immigrants by arguing that they (paraphrasing one of your previous columns) will do the jobs gabachos... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Being Newly Half-Mexican

  published February 14, 2013

  I'm 39. My stepdad — who raised me — just died. This freed my mother to tell me (stepdad always forbade it) that the man I... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Cubans and Idiots

  published February 7, 2013

  The pinche Republicans are making a gigante ruido about their "Hispanic" senators in Congress.... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Spanglish, HDTV, and Conquistadors

  published January 31, 2013

  Grammar question/rant. If Spanglish is a legitimate dialect/language, why do you feel the need to italicize every instance of code... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Jonny Chingas

  published January 24, 2013

  In 1983 or 1984, I was walking home from work down Haight Street in San Francisco one evening and stopped into Watusi Records to look... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Taking the "White Man's" Stuff and Catholicism

  published January 17, 2013

  Can you please tell me something? How do you think it's fair that all the people who come to our country and stay get treated far better... More >>

• Ask a Mexican on Collecting Old Cars and the American Dream

  published January 10, 2013

  What is it about Mexicans and collecting old cars? I have three Mexican neighbors with middle-class incomes but in each case, when the old... More >>

• Ask A Mexican on Illegal Immigrants' Cost to U.S. Society

  published January 3, 2013

  My muchos apologies for this Best Of edition—I'm still in the rancho getting faded on the Herradura and stuffed with tamales, pozole,... More >>