How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.”
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How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.”
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Completely unexamined: Latino desire to get that Honorary White Card by brutalizing other Latinos. The majority of Border Patrol are Latino, and 30% of ICE.
This isn’t exclusive to Latinos, either, it’s just how huamnity works under in-group/out-group dynamics.
Latinos are also not as homogeneous as we think they are. Each nationality has it’s own biases and bigotry against other Latino nationalities.
I’ve worked with a lot of Latinos and I noticed a couple of things. They all seem to hold the same low regard for Mexicans and Cubans think they’re better than all the rest. There are exceptions, of course, but this was the general trend I saw.
The Cubans you run into are the children of the aristocratic fucks that got chased out of Cuba… so that explains that. And maybe there’s a racial component there (since whiteness and aristocracy are linked). Many Latinos are absolutely blind to their internalized racism and get immediately offended if you bring it up.
I honestly don’t know where the anti-Mexican sentiment comes from, but I heard it from an Ecuadoran–call me a [slur], call me a [slur], but don’t call me Mexican.
I’ve been told the Mexicans are seen as hicks, mainly because of their music and dress, especially “el grito” which is the characteristic shouting heard in Mexican music.
That sounds more like post hoc justification than a cause, tbh. I don’t know Mexico has a monopoly on rednecks.
I agree. Drive 20 miles outside of any metro area in the world and the density of hicks increases.
But I will grant that Mexican music is often considered an acquired taste.
Mexican music is incredibly diverse. I like old-school folk so Chavela Vargas (born Costa Rican but “Mexicans are born wherever they damn well want”) is my jam. Natalia LaFourcade also is great, once she stopped trying to be a teeny bopper. Julieta Venega … there’s some more but I’d have to log into Deezer to remember their names.
That said, this is semi-nichey stuff; there’s an oppressively homogenous vaquero music (ranchero?), of which the only good thing I can say is that it is not reggaeton.
Meanwhile, I’m white af and love rolling down the street bumping Nortec (electro Norteñas) once in a while. Hilariously fun music. But yeah, it’s a weird take on a weird genre of campy music rooted in polka.
I think classic ranchera is hard to hate (i.e. Vicente Fernandez)
I also quite like Corridos Tumbados despite the controversy and think most people can get into that.
Mexican cumbia isn’t quite as cool as Peruvian space cumbia, but there are some heavy hitters from Mexico.