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    Articles by Gustavo Arellano
    Ask a Mexican!
    Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • April 20, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, You seem like a smart guy and your input regarding an ethnic phenomenon I’ve observed would be of…

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    Ask a Mexican!
    Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • April 13, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, I grant you a magic wand; now tell me how do we right the wrongs of Sam Houston…

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    Ask a Mexican!
    Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • March 30, 2011 12:00 am

    SPECIAL APRIL FOOLS’ EDICIÓN Dear Readers, Rather than me punk ustedes with a prank, I give you the cruelest joke…

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    Ask a Mexican!
    Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • March 23, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, I often pick up the Albuquerque Alibi to read your babosadas. Now, let me get this straight: You…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • March 16, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, Why is it que cada vez that I talk to a Hispanic (not many Mexicans in New York,…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • March 9, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, When the Second World War ended, the Germans and Japanese had to return all territories they had acquired…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • March 2, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, I am a mocha-skinned woman with long, curly hair and dark-brown eyes. Puerto Ricans always ask if I…

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    Ask a Mexican!
    Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • February 23, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, The perception of Mexico having a defective culture has come up in your column several times. It’s most…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • February 16, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, I’m a white, rural, ninth-generation Texan who left the farm and is now a lawyer for a large…

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    Ask a Mexican!
    Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • February 2, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, My gabacho friends look at me askance for being a gabacho who enjoys mariachi music. They, and even…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • January 26, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, A few years ago, I moved to Tucson. In said city, I noticed that there were little piles…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • January 19, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, I’m not Mexican (or from a Spanish-speaking country, for that matter), but I get mad when the gabachos…

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    Ask a Mexican!
    Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • January 12, 2011 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, Read your column in the Village Voice and am hoping you can help me: I think I have…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • January 5, 2011 12:00 am

    SPECIAL YEAR-END, MEXICANS-DO-ASSIMILATE EDITION  Dear Readers: Wish I could say I was back on the rancho, but you know how…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • December 29, 2010 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, I was today alerted to the problem of trash dumped on the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, and am…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • December 22, 2010 12:00 am

    SPECIAL NAVIDAD EDITION Dear Mexican, I live in a moderately fancy-ass suburb of Dallas, am super-white, and make decent money….

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • December 15, 2010 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, Someone wrote you a while back wondering why Mexicans have made a mess of their beautiful country. You…

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    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    ¡Ask a Mexican!
    By Gustavo Arellano • December 8, 2010 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican, Why can AeroMexico Airlines fly through any kind of weather conditions to get to and from the United…

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    Piñata-Bashing
    Piñata-Bashing
    By Gustavo Arellano • December 1, 2010 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican,This güero downloaded the Arizona S.B. 1070 bill, did a search on the document for “Mexicans,” and did not…

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    Why Mexicans Should Learn How to Dance to Tropical Music
    Why Mexicans Should Learn How to Dance to...
    By Gustavo Arellano • November 24, 2010 12:00 am

    Dear Mexican,I am a mutt. My father’s father was an illegal immigrant from Mexico. My mother’s father was an illegal…

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