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Dear Mexican: Our grandparents came from Mexico. The entire next generation spoke Spanish. However, in my generation, pretty much none of us do. One cousin’s daughter does because the cousin married a fluently bilingual spouse. Most white people I know have long ago lost both awareness of what their actual ethnic roots are and the original language their people came to America with, if it wasn’t English. Heck, British English can be pretty confusing. What me, my cousins and most of our kids know of Spanish is what we learn in Spanish classes. It’s clear we lost our language treasure. Fortunately, we love being Chicanos. What do you know of this loss on a local or national scale?

Spangless Chicano

Dear Pocho: The 2011 National Survey of Latinos by the Pew Research Center reported that while 91 percent of first-generation Latinos said they spoke Spanish “very well/pretty well” and 82 percent of the segunda generation did, only 47 percent of third-generation Latinos claimed the same—far higher than virtually all other immigrant groups, but still nearly half of the first generation. Far more telling is the language of preference for each generation while consuming culture: When it came to listening to music, the percentage rates of Latinos who listen to music exclusively in Spanish, English and Spanish, or exclusively in English changed dramatically toward preferring English between the first (49, 31, 18), second (18, 26, 54) and third (10, 16, 74) generations, respectively; the same happened with language preferences in watching television for the first (40, 34, 25), second (12, 17, 69) and third (5, 11, 83) generations. Moral of the story? As I’ve been saying for a decade, all Mexicans irrecoverably become Americans in el gabacho—only the stats change and always toward inglés. So much for a real Reconquista. . . ..

I am constantly in disbelief that so many undocumented immigrants—primarily Mexicans—risk life and limb to enter the U.S. to, as they’ll say, “provide a better life for their children.” Aren’t they aware U.S. kids now are fatter, sicker and dumber compared to most of the rest of the world? Since U.S. kids are presently “mandated” to get risky, experimental vaccines by age 18, we now have epidemics of autism, asthma, learning disorders, diabetes, childhood cancers, ADHD, etc. We have the most vaccinated children in the world, with many more vaccines on the way—fodder for Big Pharma. Conversely, most racists think illegals are “dirty” and bring diseases into this country, even though it has been proven immigrant children are very healthy until they’ve assimilated into the U.S. Your thoughts?

Mother Warrior

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Dear Gabacho: While you’re right about niños in the United States being a fat, lazy lot, and también about Mexican kiddies becoming the same as they assimilate, your tirade against vaccinations is puras mamadas. There was recently a measles outbreak in Orange County, one of the largest to have happened in the U.S. in years. While patient-privacy laws prohibit us from knowing the identity of the victims, stats came out showing vaccination rates in la naranja. The least-vaccinated pendejos? Areas where rich, stupid gabachos were the majority. Areas with the most-vaccinated people? Mexican-heavy cities. Mexicans, unlike gabachos, don’t have the luxury of believing far-fetched conspiracy theories put out by celebrity chichis who put our children at risk—we’ve got curanderos for that.

 

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  1. Priss Factor [AKA "Dominique Francon Society"] says: • Website

    I don’t get the Mexicans.

    Spanish is a European language forced on the tacoheads.

    Shouldn’t the tacoheads reclaim Aztlanese like Jews brought back Hebrew, a nearly dead language?

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  2. Rehmat says:

    Spanish language is basically European but ‘sprinkled’ with Arabic words during Muslim rule in Spain (711-1492). Maltese language has similar Arabic aroma.

    If Mexican living in America really want to preserve Spanish language – they should follow Canada’s Sikh community that after six generations still speak and write Punjabi language fluently even the four cabinet ministers in prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government in Ottawa.

    In August 2012, worshippers at the Wisconsin Sikh temple (Gurduwara), became victims of the US culture of gun, ethnic hatred and false-flag operations. The shooter died in a ‘police encounter’ outside the temple after killing six worshippers and wounding several others.

    The Pentagon identified the shooter as former US Army “psychological operations specialist”, Wade Michael Page 40, who had served US Army between April, 1992 and October, 1998, ending his career at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. According to the Pentagon records – Page was a qualified parachutist who received a commendation medal, five achievement medals, two good conduct medals, the National Defense Service Medal and a Humanitarian Service Medal.

    Heidi L. Beirich, the Zionist Jew director of the intelligence project at the ‘Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’ in Montgomery, claimed that Page had been a member of the racist skinhead band ‘End Apathy’, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 2010. SPLC, is a Zionist-controlled civil rights organization, created in 1971 – and is headed by Zionist Jew J. Richard Cohen.

    https://rehmat1.com/2012/08/07/wisconsin-sikh-temple-shooting-puzzle/

    • Replies: @anon
    , @biz
    , @RadicalCenter
  3. anon • Disclaimer says:
    @Rehmat

    “during muslim rule in Spain (711-1492)

    You MEAN during the period of muslim CONQUEST of Spain.

    “Canada’s Sikh community that after six generations still speak and write Punjabi”..

    About 99% of Sikhs living in Canada have NOT been here for six generations. Almost none of them were here before the 1960’s when the Liberals changed the immigration rules to get non-white votes.

    I also notice how you have nothing to say about the muslim Fort Hood shooter. Your “moral outrage” is very selective.

    • Replies: @Rehmat
  4. Mexicans live in Mexico. Americans live in America.
    You can be an American, that speaks Mexican (Spanish).

  5. “Most white people I know have long ago lost both awareness of what their actual ethnic roots are and the original language their people came to America with”

    that’s because we are Americans and we speak English. Where we “came” from is a footnote it does not “define” us as it appears to be for so many……i never understood why where you were “from” seems to be more important than where you “are”

    as i read in an article about the american soccer team being booed when they played Mexico in Pasadena “America has given me all that i have, i was born here, but my heart will always be with Mexico”

    that makes zero sense to me, and i think, if so then go home.

  6. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:
    @Priss Factor

    Mexicans were created from European colonialism. It doesn’t really matter that they’re speaking a European language.

  7. Muy interesante! That being said, the language of colonization (Spanish) has to undergo transformation within the social milieu and if the milieu changes, so do the people.

    Other than the Mexicans of European origin (usually Spaniards) the 80-90% products of mestizaje are actually (de la tierra) non European in culture so it makes sense that their native elements will predominate and will /are prone to pick up the language of their new found place of residence (USA) where they have to learn English over the long run to excel in the marketplace.
    The same happens in Muslim culture(s) where language affiliation masks cultural identity and this creates further problems for and with those seeking to redress their true origin. Examples are Tamazigh resurgence in North Africa, Kurd/Armenian identity in Turkey, Nuristani affiliation in Afghanistan.etc

    • Replies: @interesting
  8. @jack shindo

    “English over the long run to excel in the marketplace”

    i’m afraid you’re not paying attention, there was just a reply in a comment section on another website where the author, who lives in FL, can not get a job because she doesn’t speak Spanish.

    there was a story highlighting the coming lowering of food stamp amounts and the individual that was chosen to display the struggle was an elderly Mexican women who had been in the states for 20+ years, never had a job, and spoke not one lick of English.

    in certain areas of the USA learning English is a complete waste of time….hell, i can go for days and never hear English spoken until i order my sandwich.

  9. Why are they asking a complete stranger why they don’t speak Spanish? They need to ask their parents. With today’s internet resources, anyone can learn Spanish in 6-12 months if they really want to. Especially if they have family to practice with.

    Mexico now has as much obesity has the United States. It is due to eating things besides whole natural foods. Watch the documentary Globesity. Non-nutritious food causes nearly all chronic illnesses.

    there was a story highlighting the coming lowering of food stamp amounts and the individual that was chosen to display the struggle was an elderly Mexican women who had been in the states for 20+ years, never had a job, and spoke not one lick of English.

    This woman speaks some English and isn’t elderly but similar story.


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  10. So much for a real Reconquista. . . ..

    What the hell is this supposed to mean bro? You Mexicans won’t retake anything. You lost, too bad so sad. The southwest is ours, stop crying about it.

    Anyone else not like this column and see the anti-White messages in it? I do.

    Also, Mexican, you do know that our IQ in America is dropping and we are becoming fatter all due to illegal immigrants, correct? Of course natural born Americans contribute as well, but 77 percent of hispanic men are overweight or obese, along with 75 percent of hispanic women.

    Mexicans cause more problems than crime, they cause a brain drain in IQ as well as making us fatter as a country. Not too surprised as low IQ is correlated with obesity.

    We need to close our borders. Please build wall!!

  11. Rehmat says:
    @anon

    You seems to be one of Professor Daniel Bar-Tal’s ignorant Jews living in self-denial.

    Yes, Arab Muslims from Morocco invaded Spain to liberate Serf (slave) Jews from Catholic Church. They establish the Moorish empire that according to Jewish Orientalist, Dr. Bernard Lewis, became the ‘Golden Age for Jews’. It was ‘wiped off the map’ in 1492 and resulted in the death of 170,000 Jews and their 4 million Muslims protectors.

    “For almost eight hundred years (under Muslim rule), human energy in Spain had produced such an abundance of food, comforts and luxuries as the world had never before imagined. After Granada fell, human energy continued to operate in Spain and through Spain upon the New World and Europe, for two more generations. The third generation no longer knew that men are free, and energy weakened in Spain. The fifth generation could not get support the government, and their children died of starvation. Spain had practically ceased to exist,” Wrote Rose Wilder Lane in booklet “Islam and the Discovery of Freedom”.

    The first Sikh family in Vancouver, BC, was brought in by the British Raj before WWI to grow food for the starving Judo-Christian illegal settlers on the Native land just like the Israeli Jews in Palestine.

    https://rehmat1.com/2011/10/08/spain-jewish-history-without-muslims/

    • Replies: @Zoodles
  12. anon • Disclaimer says:

    You are so unbelievably full of S*** it isn’t even funny. By the way sport, I am not Jewish. And we no more needed Sikhs to “grow our food” then we need you. As for “native land” 99% of Canada was never occupied by anyone until white settlement began.

  13. biz says:
    @Rehmat

    Rehmat, the effort you put into constantly spamming this site with links to your personal blog is admirable.

    I understand the dedication to kick your goat of bed, walk down to the internet cafe in Karachi, and then deal with the spotty power outages to invariably post your blog links here along with impersonating a Nigerian prince a few times over e-mail, just to do it all over again several hours later.

    Also the effort that you make to tie everything in the world, even your case of goat AIDS, to ‘tha Jews’ is definitely above and beyond the dedication that most people who are distracted by wives, jobs, and living in a country with running water muster. Kudos to you my friend.

    • Replies: @Santoculto
    , @Jim Christian
  14. Rehmat says:

    You seems to be a very scared Israeli habara idiot.

    Forget my “goat” – just worry about your own and fellow Israeli Jewish butts being kicked by Hizbullah fighters since the 2000s.

    Lithuanian-born US-Israel citizen and three-times Israel’s defense minister, Moshe Arens, 80, in an Opinion-Post in Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz (April 20, 2015) said that a future nuclear Iran will not pose existential threat to Israel as Iran would never dare to use its nuclear arsenal against a nuclear Israel. The real threat to Israel is from 100,000 rockets and missiles in the hands of Lebanese Islamic Resistance Hizbullah.

    “A nuclear weapon in the hands of the Iranians would have a large-scale, negative geopolitical effect on the Middle East, but the probability that the weapon would actually be used is extremely small. However, the physical damage caused if it were to be used is essentially infinite,” Arens said…..

    https://rehmat1.com/2015/04/24/israeli-ex-dm-hizbullah-not-iran-is-the-existential-threat/

    • Replies: @Jim Christian
  15. how the hell did this thread devolve into a discussion regarding Iran nukes?

  16. ralph says:

    Mexican, you sound like someone who hasn’t really studied the vaccination issue.

    The group with the lowest autism rates and healthiest kids are the Amish.

    The group with the sky-high (and rising) autism rates and sickest kids are the rest of us.

    Stop playing that stupid “ooh mexican so ignorant only work no read independent media” bullshit

    The next generation of “Mexicans-Americans” reads and does its own research just like the rest of the world, and despite narrow-minded “stay in the box I put you in” by racists like you they will advance with the rest of the independent-minded and red-pill society.

    • Replies: @Santoculto
  17. @biz

    who are distracted by …

  18. @ralph

    Amish what i read, have higher rates of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

    AND

    they don’t need to be vaccined to have mental deficits, aka = blessed ”””religion”””, 😉

  19. @biz

    Biz, it’s always about “Da Jews”, as for the Packers, it’s all about “Da Bears”. Next this is, you’ll catch the “filthy Habara” label. That always warms my heart, it’s the nicest thing anyone ever called me! I. Am. Habara. Ha!

    Cheers.

  20. @Rehmat

    “Forget my “goat” – just worry about your own and fellow Israeli Jewish butts being kicked by Hizbullah fighters since the 2000s.”

    Yeah, yeah, those Jewish butts sure are kicked. I looked, the rubble bounced in all directions throughout the Hizzbulla regions when last your Hizbullah fighters kicked Israeli Jewish butts. Every time Muzzies tangle with Israeli Jewish they get their rubble re-arranged. Jordan learned, Egypt learned. When are the low-grade muzzies like Hizzie-bullahs going to learn?

    Now get OFF your goat, Re-Matt. Poor dumb animal. I have sympathy for the goat, too.

  21. Zoodles says:
    @Rehmat

    Ah the Spanish Reconquista!

    A successful campaign of decolonisation by the native cultures of the Iberia against muslim imperialists and colonists.

  22. @Rehmat

    Rehmat, interesting comment. Just a quibble: I don’t think that Spanish has nearly the Arabic linguistic influence that Maltese does.

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