Quotes About Mexican

Examples of elision in Mexican Spanish abound—pa' instead of para (for), apá instead of papá (father), SanTana instead of Santa Ana, pos instead of pues (well), and my supposed gaffe.

Chúntaro: A Mexican redneck. Term used mostly by Mexicans against each other. Jeff Foxworthy is a white chúntaro.

Raza cósmica, la: "The cosmic race." Refers to a movement by Mexican intellectuals during the 1920s arguing Mexicans have the blood of all the world's races—white, black, Indian, and Asian—and therefore transcend the world.

tomatoes, corn, and chile peppers, found lives outside the Mexican diet and came to define other cuisines. And then there's the two filched foods: vanilla and chocolate, indisputably Mexican, beloved by almost all, creators of fortunes for nearly everyone but their motherland.

We changed the eating habits of an entire nation," Bell states near the end of Taco Titan, and for once he isn't merely self-mythologizing. Bell showed other Americans that their countrymen hungered for Mexican grub sold to them fast, cheap, and with only a smattering of ethnicity. Tacos the way Mexicans ate them were out of the question: tortilla factories were still concentrated in the Southwest, and tortillas didn't last long.

La América Tropical stayed hidden from public view and history until the 1960s, by which time the elements washed enough white away so that ghostly outlines emerged. The mural is currently undergoing a restoration effort sponsored by a new generation of city fathers, its promise intimidating: you can hide the Mexican, but the Mexican will emerge.

legend has it that Mexican food made its national debut at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, better remembered as the Chicago World's Fair.

Las potencialidades de México están a la vista. Pero la falta de claridad con que actuamos los mexicanos frente a nuestras potencialidades desespera a propios y extraños.

La debilidad fundadora de todas las otras debilidades del Estado mexicano es su penuria fiscal.

las costumbres antiguas de la sociedad mexicana encontraron sustitutos monárquicos en Agustín de Iturbide (1822), en Maximiliano de Habsburgo (1863) y en distintos caudillos providenciales, como Santa Anna, quien llenó tantas veces la falta de soberano de la nueva nación, entre 1828 y 1854.

convertir la Revolución mexicana en la página culminante de la historia de la nación.

La ciudadanía mexicana tiene una memoria histórica vigorosa, pero llena de fantasías que ayudan poco a la construcción de una cultura democrática.

Se es mexicano, entre otras cosas, porque se comparte la veneración de esas violencias y esos martirologios.

And on the TV screen itself, in super high definition, waved the Mexican drug-cartel kingpin Manuel Perrine.

The Latino people in the U.S. and the Mexicans in Mexico need a UFC champion. We have a rich tradition in boxing, and to not have a Mexican heavyweight champion is unheard of. We need it. I'm glad I'm able to be in a position to give them that champion they so desperately want.

I think the United States is extremely important for Mexican music.

I'm a Mexican fighter. I just like fighting. I like staying in the pocket.

Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

The North American media have been very difficult and very critical of Julio Cesar Chavez. Why?... Because a Mexican broke the records of Muhammad Ali.

I like good Mexican food, and there's not a lot of that around North Carolina.

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

El mexicano no quiere ser ni indio, ni español. Tampoco quiere descender de ellos. Los niega. Y no se afirma en tanto que mestizo, sino como abstracción: es un hombre. Se vuelve hijo de la nada. Él empieza en sí mismo.

The photo was shaking in his hand. It wasn't just an act of love he was looking at. This was something dirty, pornographic. The kind of thing some grimy character might try to sell you on a shadowy street in a Mexican border town. Hey, you wanna buy some dirty peek-chures?