Cain Velasquez’s “Brown Pride” reminds me of so many Americans who carry on about being Irish...or Polish...or Jewish.
It is hard to explain to people unfamiliar with those whose parents came from Mexico, but in the Hispano heritage world, if your want some literary character to pay the part of a ‘schlub’, you make them Mexican.
A dear friend of mine, born in Mexico but a naturalized U.S. citizen, was disappointed to find that in Europe’s Spanish media, the part of the ‘schlub’ always spoke with a Mexican accent!
Most of Mexico’s population is now Mestizo - Indian and European. It wasn’t so long ago that Mestizos were shunned by the other two ethnic groups. Now they have political power as the majority or the population of Mexico, but the stigma and the sensitivity to it, still remain.
BTTT,