September 7, 1999 at 12:00 am #23012
Lucy-H22649
Participant
Many people in Mexico have very close relatives, cousins, aunts, uncles, children, siblings, etc., who are Americans. And they do not hate their family members just because they are Americans. I would venture to say that most Mexicans who don’t have close ties to the United States don’t hate Hispanic Americans, either. Sometimes Hispanic Americans are called “Pocho” – which basically means “pretend Mexican.” But this is because we are Americanized. Of course we are Americanized – we were born in the United States and are just as American as anybody else. I’m sure there are some people in Mexico who resent Americans, but that is probably true everywhere.