As an American do you find the Mexican culture to be tacky?

Question

Their home made signs on store fronts, loud decoration, loud polka musica, The dress of their vehicles, Taco shaped cowboy hats with matching white raoch killers and belt? A little salsa is cool but don't dump the whole jar on your burrito!

Answer 1

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I'm sorry, but I live in New Orleans, and since Katrina, the city has become a new annex to Mexico. They get on our nerves almost daily with their pretending that they don't speak English, and fxcking up our houses and shxt.

The only culture I see, is parking in front of our driveway (the house next door literally has 20 people living in there and they have at least 6 vehicles parked up and down my street), and buying beer at convenience stores.

I'm sorry that I sound racist, but I've lost it when it's come to this shxt. I had a tree leaning on my house when we got back from the storm, so we call a company to come remove it. They send out "contractors" to remove the tree, and they cut down the WRONG tree. They cut down a perfectly upright tree with nothing wrong with it and leave the other fxcking tree leaning on the house. WTF??? Then after we call the axxholes to come back, they remove the right tree this time. However, in the process of carrying the trunk out to the front of the house they drop a chunk on the driveway at put a huge hole in it. I shxt you not, it cracked the cement. Then, they acted like WE were supposed to fix the driveway. HA HA FXCKIN HA. We had to threaten not to pay them in order to get them to fix the hole they made in the cement. They stood there like deer in headlights when we told them that they had to fix the hole. "Uhh uhhh ehhh errrrrr, job okay..." "No MOTHERFXCKER, FIX THE FXCKING DRIVEWAY. FIXO EL FXCKINO DRIVEWAYO." That's just one example. I don't want to even get started on what happened when we had our roof redone (which took 5 days by the way).

The tip of the iceberg, my friends mother was KIDNAPPED while walking in the park by my house. She was RAPED, MURDERED, and THROWN IN THE PARKING LOT behind the park. Sure enough, the suspect was "a man of mexican descent" that moved here after the hurricane and was reported to know very little English. You think I'm fxcking kidding:

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-5/114846771550150.xml&coll=1#continue

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=38919&print=1

So, call me racist, but you just don't know.

Answer 2

When I was in college, I dated a guy from Canada. He was OK, but claimed that the Canadian health care system was costing him $8 a month. He had moved to the US to attend UNLV's College of Hotel Administration. The realtor who handled the sale of my house was from Vancouver. She didn't seem to understand that I found it unreasonable to live out of a U-Haul truck for any length of time. I have probably known more people from Canada, but I don't recall any others specifically. I always thought they had a similar culture to mine, but mine is not the average homogenized American culture, either.

Answer 3

don't you think calling another country's traditions tacky is being ignorant and rude. How much do you know about Mexicans to comment on them? have you been to Mexico ? lived with them? so what is the basis of your comment I wonder! I certainly find a lot of people who categorize.... why do you do that?
Mexican culture so much full of flavor, life , verve, joy and happiness! they are much more tolerant than Americans and they have more respect for their people,their history, culture and country.
Just because they are different does not mean they are tacky..... read up on them, their culture, civilization, history, learn their language and then go to their country for a vacation. Then tell us what you think of them!

Answer 4

I've been to Mexico several times; my Dad has a house there. I find some of the culture to be beautiful and subtle. I find some of the culture to be repulsive.

To be honest, I feel that way about our home grown culture, too.

However, I agree that we are entitled to have ours, in our country, and that foreigners should go the bulk of the way to adapt rather than expect us to adapt to the culture they bring with them, particularly if their culture here is only so intense because so many of them came in violation of our laws.

Because most of those who come are poor, we only see part of the Mexican culture regularly, you know.

Answer 5

in New York its a bit different, they are tacky but in a different way, they always do everything in spanish, talk, eat, everything surrounds their own people it seems that they are in their own mexican world it's nice to keep your culture but society is about sharing and learning from each other!!!

Answer 6

LOL Tacky? No, just different. I love Mexican traditions. I mean. IDK I find it weird that when I drive to school there's a group of them standing on every street corner. But it's like, hey. More power to you and whatnot. We're not all that quiet either. I mean look at America.
We founded a fast food place where you could go buy a Double Big Mac, Extra Large Fries, and a Diet Coke. Do you think the Mexicans come here and go, "Dude, what's with all the rush rush rush around this place? These people are so fat they can't run a mile!" Most likely. LOL, but it's just different, that's all. Not tacky, not bad, just different.
Come to my house and I'll make you a totally authentic Mexican dinner. I've been taught by pros.
But I do have to wonder, why do drive-up ATMS have brail on them?

Answer 7

What would your response be if a Mexican were to tell you that baseball caps worn backwards, male "rockers" in heavy make up and hair spray, sneakers worn with socks and shorts, trailer parks with the three-legged dog, fat woman in a moo-moo and dirty old pick up, saggy jeans with underwear showing, Yee-haw, waterbeds, plastic covered couches, pink flamingoes on the lawn, polyester stretch pants, bleached hair with dark roots, blue light special, tattoos on the butt, etc, etc is the reason he thinks American culture is tacky?

What would you say? Something like "well that is just the tacky part of our culture, we have a classy part, too"?......so think.

Answer 8

I'm sure there are Mexicans like me that find you to be Super Tacky. Mr Trailer Dweller with your rhinestone cowboy hat and belt buckle that doubles as a shield for He-Man and your dumb *** Honky Tonk Garth Brooks music, dancing the electric slide that was ripped off from the African Americans because your too stupid to come up with your own dance craze. Go docey doe back to your camper and suck on some more Natural Light Beer. Since you are too cheap to buy Miller Genuine Draft.

Answer 9

I think true mexican culture's all right, but what we've got these days is a huge illegal immigration problem, and that's not culture, it's poverty, and ignorance. We're gonna have to take the High Road on this one, and end up 'helping' mexico, I think, because inevitably, one way or another, they're gonna try like hell to move in, and scream bloody murder if we don't let em. So, the more enlightened path, I believe, is to undertake structured outcome-based assistance plans with Mexico, along with the US Border Patrol doing their job along a completed border fence.

You can trash-talk Mexico/Mexicans/etc all day long, but real change is concrete, like encouraging/assisting Mexico in building their own roads, hospitals, and schools, teaching about things like birth control, better farming technologies, resource conservation, stuff like that, get them up-to-speed with us on solving social problems and crime, stuff like that.

But, it's like the old joke: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Only one, but the lightbulb has to WANT to change...

Answer 10

I don't know if I'd say tacky...but yes incongruent to what we are used to and low class.

Save it I'm as low class as you'd ever come across. No one lacks in manners, style, class, appearance, or zero gentlemen like qualities than myself on the whole planet, I hold that title. But when it's like what you decribe it's like really low class to me.

It's not coming out right. Perhaps foriegn instead. Or disrespectful to themselves and their community by our standards.

Answer 11

It is just as tacky to see a fat red neck with his beer gut hanging out, and all the kids running around with no clothes on eating dirt, all the junk cars sitting up on blocks, no under pinning on the trailer, do you see my point. Every race of people has those few that make the rest look bad. SORRY if I offended you.