ThinkingPachuco
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ThinkingPachuco
@top_pachuco
Cholo Catholic Philosopher King Chicano Human Capital Hater of ANE Bajio American Devotee of San Martin de Porres y San Junipero Serra


Japanese lowrider culture is actually pretty sick.

2 more days until i leave twt


@hispanicnomad @shagbark_hick @shagbark_hick is spiritually Latino, he'd do great in a lot of Latin American countries and I mean that as a compliment.



It's not hard for an American man to be "Mexicanized." You show up in the desert penniless, exhausted by the harsh sorrows of the world. You wander around Yuma. By chance, some friendly campesinos offer you some Tecate. You get drunk. They offer you work picking lettuce, and you take it. Immediately, you're immersed in a world of cumbia and corridos, habanero salsas and tamales, great big crates of lechuga loaded onto trucks, and you're tanning so dark you're starting to look Mexican yourself. The guys are calling you "güero" -- they're nice to you. They're nicer to you than anyone's been in years. They want you to play fútbol in the churchyard with them; they never exclude you from whatever they're up to, never skip you in the tequila rotation. Their world is colorful, loud, sweaty, laughing, and they're glad you're there. You get the sense that this is how it was always supposed to be. And you can't come back from that. When you go back home, everyone seems so "stiff" and cold. Your family, they eat quickly, they don't linger over anything, they don't seem to enjoy anything. Your town has no one playing fútbol on the lawn, no cumbia, no burning sun that makes you smile and sweat. Everyone is awkward, tentative, distant. You cannot help but miss la frontera. It's at that moment that the process is complete. You just can't go back. You're "spiritually Mexican" now. Pic related: It's me and my wife.


Basta de xenofobia, todos los latinos somos iguales.





@top_pachuco Un Méjico sin goyines como tú, mejor















