A New Type of Racism

Has arisen as Mexican Americans now have to face being lumped with other brown people even though we all know that we are a different culture and even from different lands which makes us foreigners untill each other.

Every time a US born Mexican American is lumped into the Latino or Hispanic category this results in a new benign kinder gentler form of racism. Very simple, to be merged with people from another citizen amounts to racism within the US because a US citizen by birth is placed with people from foreign countries simply based on a perceived resemblance. Hence we have racism and ignorance as one.

Would an Argentinean who moved to Chile be merged with a Chilean by birth because they have the same last name? No.

So why does it happen to me? Because it's easy to label me off with other countries that have no place of my existence there. Even The United Mexican States has no record of me so even by Mexican standards I am not one of them even if I look like them and talk like them. I was not born in their domain called Mexico. I am a foreigner so the same exist with those born in Mexico who move north. Because we are of two different citizenships we are not fellow anything. So, neither those born south of the border should be lumped with those born north. They have a different legal and cultural definition. If this exists, then to be lumped with Centro or Caribbean People is the ultimate form of disrespect and racism because I'm being eliminated from my place of birth. If that is not racism then what would it be.

I understand the Che Guevara feel but he died so this no borders view is not real because nobody else is going to write up legal documents where I will be given citizenship. Truth of the matter, people from the border of Mexico/US to Tierra del Fuego are not the same. They are not the same land, nor the same people, cultures or continents. The Chicano Generation was full of acid to make this illogical conception logical. There is no fact to this illusion. I have traveled throughout all of Central America, Bolivia, Peru and Argentina and saw how all these countries would not allow their neighbors in without a visa or a passport.

I do not need to be lumped with foreigners nor do I want to coexist with cultures I do not know. I remember as a child thinking how different all these people were and I have always been correct. But US keeps insisting in labeling me as an outsider and not from here when this is were I am from and by generations.

I do not accept being called a foreigner when I am not even when labeled with those born in Mexico. We are different even if you believe we are not, we are, I am of a different nationality.