How Mexican is El Paso?

[unnativeelpasoan]

Originally Posted by SoundNinia

Wow, you must be a stalker nd a stage 5 clinger to go through my posts.

LOL. Don't flatter yourself. I didn't need to "go through" any of your posts. I simply happened to read a thread you started in another forum on the same day, genius. No need for you to freak out and come to such extreme conclusions.

as for what i said, thats MY business NOT YOURS

Seriously?? LOL. This is public forum. If you have a problem with that, then don't post here.

and not every hispanic thinks alike or treats people the same.

Really? No kidding! Sorry, but I'm 100% sure I said nothing of that sort. Nice try, though.

[unnativeelpasoan]

Originally Posted by sanluisito

Murder? I see every day in the streets that 9.5/10 look with something amerind. Also i read on books that there were universities for amerind, and amerind keep their own land and never were send to reserves in the desert.

Well, it sounds like you still have a lot to learn about the history of your own country.

[SoundNinia]

Originally Posted by unnativeelpasoan

Well, it sounds like you still have a lot to learn about the history of your own country.

Yeah, like how the United States stole land from Mexico!

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by mdonaldson

After learning that El Paso is a Hispanic-dominated city I was wondering if there is any discrimination faced by the Caucasian minority?

I ask this question because my sister visited the city on a business trip and told me that El Paso is more Mexican than American and that the Mexican residents tend to treat the Caucasians like outsiders. In addition, she also mentioned that many of the Hispanic residents seem to proclaim themselves as Mexican first and don't want anything to do with America.

Is this true?

I came to El Paso in 1982 on a job transfer.

I've stayed because I like it here. Took me a short while to get into the groove of El Paso's social scene, but I was never treated like I was unwelcome or that I was somehow alien.

Yes, it's very much Hispanic, but don't kid yourself, it's an American city. The contrast between EP and its neighboring Mexican city of Juarez is very stark indeed.

The most alarming thing to me is the fact that so many EP Latinos are Dallas Cowboys fans.

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by SoundNinia

Yeah, like how the United States stole land from Mexico!

Didn't Mexico steal all of its land from Spain, who stole it from various Indian tribes who stole it from the native flora and fauna that was there for millions of years prior to their arrival?

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by mdonaldson

After learning that El Paso is a Hispanic-dominated city I was wondering if there is any discrimination faced by the Caucasian minority?

I ask this question because my sister visited the city on a business trip and told me that El Paso is more Mexican than American and that the Mexican residents tend to treat the Caucasians like outsiders. In addition, she also mentioned that many of the Hispanic residents seem to proclaim themselves as Mexican first and don't want anything to do with America.

Is this true?

When it is the other way around we are told
"Stop making things up, everybody here is treated the same"

[Werone]

Racism comes with racist people. I'm glad to hang around people that do not care about race, hardly discussed. I refuse to participate in prejudice and the scientifically verified mental error that people define as race. It's cr****p.

Start looking at the human genome, and read about it, I invite you all to look at what the human genome has in common before you look at the petty difference....

"the amount of genetic variation—biochemical individuality—is about 0.1 percent"

[joqua]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

Yes, it's very much Hispanic, but don't kid yourself, it's an American city. The contrast between EP and its neighboring Mexican city of Juarez is very stark indeed.

Keeping this thread alive...this morning's El Paso Times has this article:

By Ramón Rentería / El Paso Times reporter:
Let's rename El Chuco "North Juárez" right now

Si señor, El Paso is more Mexican than it seems.

Some of us have always contended El Paso is so Mexican that we should shed the historical El Paso ID and rename us North Juárez (or Juárez del Norte), a suburb of the real Juárez.

[WildWestDude]

Originally Posted by SoundNinia

Yeah, like how the United States stole land from Mexico!

BS. Most was bought with good old American $ and most of that land was extremely sparsely populated and almost not administered/controlled.. There's isn't one place in the world that hasn't been taken over by someone else except maybe some very isolated areas. People eventually get over it and move on.

[joqua]

Another good article in today's El Paso Times:

Ramón Rentería: Let's stop eating dust, "Hispanic" cultural center is overdue in El Paso