Observations on the Mexicanos...

Lui and I were chatting and we came up with a list of Things Mexican People Like and it turned it to Observations on the Mexicanos in general.

• Vero: Mexicans like giving their loved ones ridiculous nick names (see: "gordo", "morena", "flaca", "blanca" "mona") Lui: yeah, my aunt's name is Celina and we call her "mona" Vero: I have aunts named Rosario, Leticia, Carmen, Margaret, and Dolores but it's "Negra", "Leta", "Caya", "Mague", and "Pilinga" and our Uncle Jesus was "Cuco"
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans like excuses for parties. Vero: Word. Graduation, confirmation, baby shower, wedding shower, quinceniera, Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, tupperware party...
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans like putting the Virgin on everything from candles, to clocks to nightlights to tattoos. http://www.pbase.com/ohquepretty/virgin_mary_and_los_angeles
  And we believe she shows up everywhere from our tortillas to trees.
  http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/RootWeb/VirginMaryCheese.htm
  According to that site her food of choice is a grilled cheese sandwich, but everyone knows she's all about the tortilla.
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans like the old english letters on back of pick-ups (Lui: although that's a mexican-american thing)
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans like naming their daughters Maria. Lui: My mom's name is Maria de Lourdes Monica. Vero: All my aunts are names Maria de "whatever"
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans like naming their children after virgins and saints
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans like naming their children after themselves. My dad is Roland, my brother is Roland Jr. My grandfather was Jesus, his son was Jesus and one of my aunts sons was Jesus. My uncle's father was Ray, he is Ray and his son is Ray. My dad's friend was Adrian, his daughter was Adriana and his son was Adrian Jr. And the best example yet: Lui is named after her father Luis, and her sister is named after her mother Lourdes.
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans like being late to everything
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans like: BBQs. Vero: and like taking leftovers home on styrofoam plates "for mijo" after the cook out, even if they didn't pitch in.
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans like pinatas.
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans like birthday parties. We went to Dallas and we went to get something to eat at some hotel and it was midnight and on the door of one of the ballrooms was "Alexis 1st birthday!" and of course latiin music coming from the room. Vero: You have to celebrate mijo's birthday with carne asada and beer and tres leches cake. Lui: and dancing.
  
  
• Lui: Mexican people like the song "El Rey." Vero: Any song by Vicente Fernandez is a classic. I don't know a Mexican who doesn't know the words to "Llorar" and "Volver"
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans like calling everyone mijo or mija, regardless of whether they are related or not. Lui: and everyone is Tio or Tia
  
  
• Lui: Mexican American people are Mexican OR American when convenient
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans like tacos out of trucks
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans have padrinos for everything
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans ask you to be their sponsor for everything. For their weddings, quincenieras, for school trips...
  
  
• Vero: Mexican women always have makeup on
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans love chanclas *flip flops* and often use them to kill bugs and try to kill their children(many a mexican child has been threatened by "chanclasos") Vero: Chancla, the trabesura stopper. We feared a chanclaso
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans will willingly paint their house hot pink or neon green
  
  
• Lui: Mexican people love gossip. Vero: Chisme! Lui: all kinds of it
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans believe if someone looks to hard at something, it will get the Ojo. Lui: Superstition! Vero: My mom used to tell me that if my feet got wet and my hair didn't I'd get sick
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans love home remedies. I've been blessed with a chancla before and had an egg in a bowl under the bed to cure me of the Ojo. Lui: I was made to drink tequila as a child to help me go to sleep! Vero: I don't think that was a remedy so much as your parents were alcoholic. Lui: It was just a sip. Vero: Ri-ight.
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans like saying that the gringos are trying to keep us down.
  
  
• Vero: Mexican people will eat chile with anything. Lui: and mayonnaise!
  
  
• Lui: We like complaining that people think all mexican women are hot and spicy but secretly we love that we're hot and spicy.
  
  
• Vero: Mexican men know how to romance their ladies, but don't know how to respect them
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans will brag to no end when one of their kids or grandkids accomplishes anything but everyone esle will complain that that person thinks they are better than them or "se cree mucho"
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans love white skinned babies
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans like pronouncing an "e" before any "s" word like "estudy" or "especial"
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans love watching shows where girls are scantily dressed and jump around. Lui: it's like every show on spanish tv. Vero: It could be a kids game show and there are the chichonas in their thigh high boots. Lui: there is this sports show on saturday mornings with men in suits and sports highlights and girls on the side in skimpy clothing who do NOTHING. They don't contribute to the show other than to dance in and out of commericals
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans love watching adults dress up stupid things in their television shows like that guy who dressed like a grasshopper or adults acting like little kids. Our shows are second only to Japan in their stupidity. Lui: El Chapulin Colorado! They love him!
  
• Vero: Mexican men love boots, cowboy hats and a big belt buckle.
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans love cheating the system. I just went with my dad to Jason's Deli and I wanted to just get the salad bar and instead of us getting the salad bar and an entree for him, he got the entree and a "side salad" so that it would not be as expensive but I could still go back as often as I wanted!
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans love Chinese buffets. Maybe it's the fact that you can eat 3 lbs of food for $6.oo
  
  
• Lui: Mexican men love "las gueras". Vero: True, the lighter skinned the better.
  
  
• Vero: Mexicans love mariachis
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans love flea markets. Vero: La Pulga! The only place where you can buy a mattress, a Frito Pie, a hammer, gold hoop earrings, and a cell phone, all for under $200 bucks.
  
  
• Lui: Mexican men: love mustaches Vero: Mexican women: have mustaches
  
  
• Lui: Mexican people love meddling in everyone's business
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans apparently love Obama http://www.amigosdeobama.com/
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans love saying "Viva (insert anything here)!"
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans LOVE novelas! Vero: No one does overdramatic like a Mexican actress.
• Lui: Mexicans love trying to squeeze the whole gang into one car (just sit on their lap)
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans love nalgas- pinching them, slapping them, taking and looking at pictures of them
  
  
• Lui: Mexicans love a nice long siesta after a 2 hour meal
  
  
• Vero: Mexican men want to marry someone who will baby them like their mother. Lui: oh my god yes and their moms tell them no woman will be as good as them!
  
  
• Vero: Mexican men like scaring the hell out of their daughter's boyfriends
  
  
• Vero: Even after we're dead, the fiesta continues.