Talk:Chicano
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I don't think the Mexican-American page should redirect automatically to the Chicano page - the two terms are not entirely synonymous. Perhaps a separate page should be made for Mexican-American, as in the case of Hispanic American and Latino. Just my two cents. - AvestanHamster
User 68.127.82.160 added a large paragraph at the end of the article, which I've cut because it appears to be lifted from some MEChA literature as seen on these websites: [1] (http://www.azteca.net/aztec/chicano.html), [2] (http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/mecha/archive/chicano.html), etc. ←Hob 04:02, 2004 Sep 7 (UTC)
I've changed the statement 'Aztlan was the dominant nation' to 'the Aztec empire was the dominant nation'. Calling that empire 'Aztlan' is somewhat like calling Greece 'Mount Olympus' or 'Atlantis'. If anything, the appropriate name would be 'Tenochca empire' or something like that. --Bletch 04:04, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
When I was a child, someone told me (I'm thinking my mother) that Chicano came from the Apache. He couldn't say Mejicano(Mexicano). It came out Mechicano. Then it was just shorten to chicano. Since there was no love lost between the two; chicano was used to refer to a *&^%$dirty low life.
Vatos and lowriders
I have deleted
- But unfortunately chicanos are classified and stereotype as "gangsters" and the style differs from the average "Mexican" from Mexico. The mexicans from Mexico are normally categorized as "Border brothers" with their cowboyish dress attire and unique style of music where as the chicano dress attire and style are "Lowriders" and gang affliation vato locos form the surenos or nortenos.
This is, in a word, tonterķa. Yes, there's a kernel of an idea here, as well as some accurate observations, but in its present form it says nothing — certainly nothing I would want to build an article on. The article as a whole needs to be cleaned up to meet wiki standards.
The name Chicano is not entirelly related to a Mexico-American people.
A theory states that after the colonization of the Spanish Empire, many Indians lost their tribal identity and some how became to work for the Acendados (land owner)who would keep them Adoctrinados, as they call them cristian domesticated, therefore with the help of the Catholic Church these indians lost part of the tribal identity to become repressed by the Spanish Colonist. After the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty(1948), this people were know to be Mexicans since it they were Mexicans after the Independence of Mexico in early 1800's, but with the only differency that they had a strong feeling of alienation, since there was no strong support from the central Mexican government, when they were invaded by the Anglo Colonies and many of them feelt that defending the territory was not going to help them since they had little representation from the central Mexican government and their luck was not going to change because they would still repressed under different government. Chicanos therefore are not really Mexicans or of Mexican decent, they are Native Americans that had lost touch with their orignal tribal right and customs. No all chicanos feel that the world "Chicano" is offensive for the contrary they embraze this word as they embraze their right to be recognize as the original people of this land, without an indinan tibal name who stands for them. They reconize that they lost a battle and that their territory is occupied as most of it from Alaska to Brazil, because "We are were from different tribes, but only one pleople" "People of Bronze".
