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Old 12-02-2010, 12:01 AM
 
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First I want to say THIS IS NOT A RACIST POST...but is something i noticed. I work at a hotel and we get a lot of interns, and even mexicans who have just come from mexico. I have spent a lot of time in los angeles/so cal...and know that mayate is used as a derogatory term for blacks. However not one of these mexican interns or mexicans know that and just think of it as a deragotory term for homosexuals(like it originally was)

didnt know if anyone knew that or not...just thought this may be a place to post this since that term is popular in socal.
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Old 12-02-2010, 12:05 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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get me intern at your hotel please
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Old 12-02-2010, 12:06 AM
 
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How would it be "racist," since Mexicans are a national group like Canadians and not a race?
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Old 12-02-2010, 12:10 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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lol
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Old 12-02-2010, 10:35 AM
 
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get me intern at your hotel please
But I thought you already had a job.
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Old 12-02-2010, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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How would it be "racist," since Mexicans are a national group like Canadians and not a race?
Racism respects no national borders. I think the OP is asking about the use of a derogatory term directed at blacks by Mexicans. Anyone familiar with Mexico's social structure knows the darker your skin the more likely you are to be poor and face discrimination.

To the OP...according to the urban dictionary, the term mayate is a derogatory word aimed at blacks AND a straight man who turns tricks with gay men.

Urban Dictionary: mayate
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Old 12-02-2010, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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The Mexis I've known down through the years use maricón for (male) homosexual and mayate as their "n" word. I've never encountered the dual-usage.
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Old 12-02-2010, 11:10 AM
 
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I was just surprised that none of the mexicans right from mexico knew of the term to be against blacks.
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Old 12-02-2010, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Maybe it's a pocho thing.
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Old 12-02-2010, 02:45 PM
 
Location: SELA
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Racism respects no national borders. I think the OP is asking about the use of a derogatory term directed at blacks by Mexicans. Anyone familiar with Mexico's social structure knows the darker your skin the more likely you are to be poor and face discrimination.
That's why there is no racism against "Mexicans"; I meant the OP's clarification that he was not making a "racist" post. "Racism against Mexicans" is a misnomer for racism that primarily directs itself against people with Indian phenotypic features with anti-Hispanic and anti-Mexican terminology.
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