Embarrassed to be Latino
Nice to know Latinos can be as stupidly aggressive as the San Diego Minutemen! To quote ranchera icon Vicente Fernandez, "La migra a mi agarró/Trescientas veces, digamos/Pero jamas me domó/A mi me hizo los mandados/Los golpes que a mi me dío/Se los cobré a sus paisanos." Translation for the gabachos and you, coño: better to beat bozos with punitive damages instead of putazos — the former hurt more!
I hear so many gringos saying that Mexican men are stinky and greasy! Well, I know from experience this is so not true! So what's up with the misconception? I never met a greasy, stinky Mexican! And my mexicano novio is always very clean, never greasy and smells great! I am a gringa myself, so what's wrong with my people? Why do they think this way about mexicanos?
La Gringita Bonita Dulcita
The Mexican turns this question over to his Mexican, Dr. William Nericcio of San Diego State University, author of the scurrilous Tex(t)-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the 'Mexican' in America: "Tales of ethnicities and nationalities being able to sense each other litter the history books and the floors of water coolers the world over; so it is that the Japanese can 'smell' Americans (apparently we OD on milk products producing an olfactory side-effect that floors Kyotans, Godzilla, and others), Mengele and the Nazis could out a Jew on the spot with their rulers, calipers, and measurements tables; and, of course, Mexicans . . . Well, we just plain stink. Or so the story goes. No doubt the shared wisdom that declares we stink derives from the same source that says we're 'dirty.' Most, if not all, of these tales derive from Pershing's American Expeditionary force that invaded Northern Mexico (with Patton and Eisenhower along for the ride, no less) in 1916. American fools from Maine to Poughkeepsie took their jingoistic xenophobia with them to the lands of Zapata and Villa and came away convinced that Mexicans were dirty — in this regard, they mirrored the motherland's, (England) view of the Spanish and joined a long tradition of loathing that characterizes the relationship between folks who speak English and those that prefer Spanish." Translation or us proles: don't gabachos stink to high heaven?