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Old 12-07-2014, 08:02 PM
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So, which "Mexican culture" is this Norma Perez-Sanford from the Fillmore Unified School District speaking of?

The one from Mexico in which in a very few might have any idea of whom and of what great historical significance to Mexico they were: Octavio Paz Lozano, Octavio Paz Solorzano, and Ireneo Paz Flores concerning the Porfiriato, The Mexican Revolution, and 20th century Mexico. But all without a doubt know - and often recalled with a falling over belly laugh - beyond the BS of the old black and white Mexican films just exactly who and what Gavino Barrera was and all about all those bastard children he left in his wake the length and breadth of Mexico. His legendary sexual exploits seems to far eclipse any of his Revolutionary war involvement in the public imagination...

...Or the "Mexican culture" exhibited by American "university Mexicans" who know exactly what Elena Poniatowska and Carlos Fuentes ate for lunch while discussing the positive societal merits of Che Guevara the day before "The Buried Mirror" was published... while playing the ongoing, incredibly stupid "I'm more authentically ethnic than you are" game is the most popular pocho activity on just about any University of California campus.



How about the REAL Mexican culture in which quite a number know that Cinco de Mayo might have something to do with the French but are not sure of what it was...

...Compared to the contrived in America "Mexican culture" in which the American booze holiday named "Cinco de Mayo" evolved around the late 1960's amid much spin and outright fabrication concerning the May 5th 1862 Battle of Puebla - including conflating the (not formed until 1867 in the final months of the war) - "American Legion of Honor" with the 1862 action.

Just which "Latino activist's" ass does Perez-Sanford wear for sombrero anyway?



BTW, I stayed for a while in Fillmore while working in Ventura. From my observations from there and many other "immigrant communities" throughout California, as well as working with Mexican nationals from 1974 on, the letter writer's assessments are right on the mark.
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