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Gustavo Arellano

Our Nation's Recipe for Food and Bigotry

Rachel Adams | Posted 04.13.2013 | TED Weekends
Rachel Adams

NASA even serves Chinese food to astronauts on Space Shuttle flights. Given that we Americans consume so much Chinese, Lee asks, why not replace apple pie with Chinese food as our symbolic national food?

Cristina Costantini

No Quiero Taco Bell: How Mexican Is Mexican Food?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 04.17.2012 | Latino Voices

Over the past 20 years, business has been buenísimo for the Americans who have started Mexican food chains in the U.S. Chipotle, started in the e...

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Puto Stuff

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 03.30.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: It's so sad to see your wimpy answers. Your replies scream self-hatred and self-shame for your raza.

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Mormon Edition

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 03.23.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

So, sin further ado, here's my PSA for Mitt to clear up any confusion--hope you don't win, but I'll expect the ambassadorship to Guatemala for this service if my candidate Alfred E. Neuman doesn't triumph, cabrón.

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Christmas Gift Edition

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 02.20.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Dear Readers: In between your fifteenth tamale and sixth spiked cup of ponche, you're going to have to buy regalos for Christmas or whatever pinche holiday you celebrate.

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Conquistador Edition

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 02.13.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

"Does it make any sense to you that, in some cities in Mexico, there are statues of the Spanish conquistadors?"

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Mexican Revolutions and Mexican Homophobia

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 02.05.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Where is Mexico's revolution? And why do Mexican families not talk about homosexuality?

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Is that Polka or 'Conjunto Norteño'?

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 01.30.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Why is Mexico Such a Dump? And what's the Mexican music that sounds like polka?

¡ASK A MEXICAN! Special Mexicans are Racist Edición

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 01.26.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

"Why do your people hate me? I'm half-Mexican, and while I don't have the stereotypical Mexican brown skin tone, I'm no different than everyone on Univision!"

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Conservative Mexicans and Teacher Discrimination

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 01.17.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Are More Mexicans Becoming Conservative? And do teachers discriminate against students with Hispanic first names?

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Mujer Edition

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 01.09.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Why do Mexican women sew their own dresses? And is it true Latinas are more uninhibited?

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: "Illegals" and The "N-Word"

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 01.02.2012 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Why do Americans Call Mexicans "Illegal"?

Ask A Mexican!: Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word?

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 12.26.2011 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word? And why can't Mexicans Get Over the Mexican-American War?

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Chivas and AIDS Tests

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 12.19.2011 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

How Did the Chivas Soccer Team Get its Name? And why won't my hot Mexican gardener take an HIV test?

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: 'Illegals' Love Wrought Iron Fences?

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 12.12.2011 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

What Part of Illegal Don't Mexicans Understand? And why do so many homes have wrought iron fences?

Ask A Mexican!: Good Gabacho/Evil Alabama Edition

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 12.07.2011 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Ask A Mexican!: When Should You Use Usted instead of Tú? And Are the Letters in this Column Real?

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Shrek Mascots and Redistricting

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 11.30.2011 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Why do Mexican business owners hire people dressed as Shrek to advertise their business?And why do Mexicans want to redistrict political boundaries in their favor?

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Smoking Pot and Talking Heads

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 11.21.2011 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Arellano answers the questions, "Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels if I Smoke Pot? And why don't more Mexis appear on television news talks shows?"

¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Matanzas

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 11.14.2011 | Latino Voices
Gustavo Arellano

Every week, readers submit their questions about Mexicans to Gustavo Arellano-- including their customs, labor issues, and illegal immigration.

LA Times James Rainey Calls Critics of The Entryway "Reactionary" and "Exclusive"

CyberFrequencies | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
CyberFrequencies

Why is it that when we weigh in with critiques about the way immigration is covered, folks like Rainey make shrill pronouncements that we're sending the The Entryguey ladies to a "firing squad than to a reeducation camp."

Will Perez Hilton Cover Immigration?

CyberFrequencies | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
CyberFrequencies

The Entryway is a multimedia project where a couple white chicks move in with immigrant Latino families to learn Spanish. The project lit up the world of new media a couple of weeks ago.

The Entryway Gets a Smackdown and Reveals Two LAs

CyberFrequencies | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
CyberFrequencies

I've actually met The Entryway ladies and I gotta say they're really nice women -- just totally clueless about matters of race.