Mexican-american

What is Mexican-american?


1.

A person of Mexican descent born and raised in the United States of America.

More Mexican-Americans voted for President in the 2004 election than in the year 2000.

See Paco

2.

An oxymoron used to describe an American who is from or ancestors were from Mexico. Mexican is a nationality and colonial identity, but not an ethnicity. One cannot be a citizen of Mexico and a citizen of the United States at the same time. One can be from one of the ethnic groups indigenous to Mexico and be a citizen of the United States.

One can be Mayan-American, Nahuatl-American, Zapotec-American, etc., but not Mexican-American.

Many so called Mexican-Americans are descendants of the Spanish colonial population. They cannot be called Spanish-American as Spanish is not a distinct ethnicity but a national and colonial identity as well. They fall under the category of "White".

Are you Mexican-American?

No, I'm Nahautl-American.

or

No, I'm Mayan-American.

Etc.

See oxymoron


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