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Ask a Mexican: Why Do Mexicans Put Down Other Mexicans for Being Educated?

by Gustavo Arellano March 25th, 2015December 16th, 2020

Dear Mexican: Why are we put down by our own people for being educated and articulate, while the Anglos accept us for being smart? (I’ve been called gabacho, and I’m as brown as the next guy.) I work in Santa Ana as a high school teacher and am considered very good at what I do, […]

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