Topic: mexican-american

[nichi]

I lived in Mexico with my pops for 2 years, and Honduras for 8 months. Will post about Honduras later if no one gets to it first, it is my favorite of the two.

Cool! Look forward to it!

Still Mexican's and Hondurans, and I would surmise that Hispanics that were born and raised in a Hispanic culture all have this in common. It always seemed to me that they have a deeper experience of there emotions. A deeper feeling life. We Americans think think think (and never do our thought make it anywhere anyway), but down there they feel so much more.

That meets with my observation as well.  Though there might be a double-edged sword in it, for, if I'm not mistaken, "crimes of passion" are more acceptable.

One religion is very important to them, rare it was for us to go into a house down there and not see a religious image on the wall.

I've noted this one a lot, Guadalupe (a Goddess image if I ever did see one):







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[nichi]

Some random images

[nichi]

Two they dance, this seems really important. I've known a few white men that could dance, and the dances are different, but the peoples I have seen dance with the strongest feeling have rarely ( I think once.) been white. Don't mean to sound racist, there is no hate intended in what I am saying, god I can't dance. I have seen African Americans, and Hispanics and others, but it seems most white men have lost this beautiful gift. Some even dance well, but from my own limited observations it feels more like technique than feeling. In Mexico they have got it.

I don't think you're making a hateful generalization at all, N. I think it's just true: the Latina and African cultures have the rhythm, and you can hear it in the music as well as see it in the dance. The white, nordic, celtic, germanic cultures don't. Could have to do with the origins of tiny, cramped cold-ness for the white folk, don't know. But that there is a difference seems indisputable to me. 

[nichi]

Guajira by Amanda Martinez


Guajira by Yerba Buena
(this is actually puerto-rican, not mexican, but I've heard it on the radio here in San Diego.)

[nichi]