City Weekly - Ask a Mexican http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8392-1-ask-a-mexican.html <![CDATA[Uptight Gringo Ladies]]> By Gustavo Arellano

What I want to know is how come Mexican women are so comfortable with their bodies? What makes white women so uptight? ]]>
<![CDATA[B to the W to the S-Words]]> By Gustavo Arellano

The three anti-Mexi slurs you used are so 1950s—the only people who use those words nowadays are old gabachos and Alabamans.]]>
<![CDATA[Conquests & 9/11]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: There’s something I’m concerned about, or bothered by. I was born and raised in Mexico, but I’ve been here for eight years. All the talk about 9/11 is too much]]>
<![CDATA[Gardeners With Benefits]]> By Gustavo Arellano

I’ve seen Hot Gardener once since I first wrote you, and HG made it clear he still wants to bang me]]>
<![CDATA[Mexis & Metallurgy]]> By Gustavo Arellano

What's up with all the elaborate wrought-iron fences in the Mexican parts of town?]]>
<![CDATA[Tu or Usted?]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: I learned Spanish in school as a teen. Then, it seems, because I was young, everybody was an usted. ]]>
<![CDATA[Latinos of Los Angeles]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: I hear that at the last Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors hearing about redistricting, some lady accused Supervisor Gloria Molina of Reconquista. What is that...]]>
<![CDATA[Smokin' Local]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: I am a half-breed, as they say (Mexican father, Anglo mother), and recently I’ve been reading a lot about the drug violence in Mexico. I’ve become...]]>
<![CDATA[Lazy Puerto Rican or Mexican?]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: I live in upstate New York, and while we have a relatively small Mexican population, we have a large number of Puerto Ricans]]>
<![CDATA[Men Waiting For Work]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Every single day between the hours of 5 a.m. and 12 p.m., there are at least one hundred Mexican men out there waiting to be picked up for work of any kind.]]>
<![CDATA[Hipster Vatos]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: I see a lot of vatos around wearing the clam-digger pants with the knee-high white socks and white sneakers. While this is nothing new, I’ve noticed recently that the shoes and socks are the whitest white I’ve ever seen. ]]>
<![CDATA[Tres Leches Cake]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Tres leches cake is traditionally made with evaporated milk, condensed milk and a layer of cream on top.]]>
<![CDATA[Half-Mexican, Half ?]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Half-White: Honky-Tonk, Gringateca, Mejiyanqui, Mexi-melts, Whics]]>
<![CDATA[Couch Surfin' Cousins]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Mexicans never let drunken cousins sleep on the couch—that’s what the back of a pickup truck is for.]]>
<![CDATA[Mexicans Hate Spaniards?]]> By Gustavo Arellano

The Peach State decided to go all Arizona on its growing Latino population and passed nasty legislation.]]>
<![CDATA[Mennonites Pedaling Queso]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: A few years ago, my girlfriend and I visited the beautiful city of Merida in the Yucatan. We were surprised to see a sentence in our guidebook warning us to be on the lookout for Mennonites pedaling queso in the mercado. ]]>
<![CDATA[Proper Title for Mexis]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Do you think sometime in the next couple of decades the term “Mexican” will no longer exist? In the future, will your column be referred to as Ask A Hispanic?]]>
<![CDATA[Going Back Home]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Say the immigrant makes a few bucks and goes back to his/her hometown. Think they’ll put up with the shit that prompted them to move in the first place?]]>
<![CDATA[Mexican Soccer Fans]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Why do Mexican soccer fans chant “Osama! Osama!” when their side plays the United States?]]>
<![CDATA[U.S. of Mexico]]> By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: Suppose that all of the southwestern United States had remained in Mexican hands. Would the Mexicans have done any better with it than they have with the present confines of Mexico?]]>