I recently came across a news letter titled the California Mexico Project pushed by Chicano Studies professor Armando. He was advocating for a show of support for the 32 million Mexicans in the diasphoral and that they should be included in the upcoming election, presidential in Mexico.
The part that bothered me was this diasphoric claim which means they have left the homeland bus a Mexican American of Apache heritage this statement counters my belief that for us US Mexican Americans, the diaphoral model does not apply because I'm living in the same homelands of my Apache ancestors, so I find it troubling that this view exist in the field of Chicano Studies which is the study of Mexican Americans not Mexican from southern Mexico Studies which I believe harms the education of those people like myself who have a northern heritage from the US side.
Why is this separation from the homeland viewed even permitted in Mexican American Studies if the claim of the basis of Chicano Studies was from Aztlan which refers to the US desert or Northern Mexico. But I understand why it happened and its simple, all these Mexico born, most from the south arrive and push their agenda, personal, cultural and political and push those like me to the aside because they feel they are owed something. Yet how can a foreign born be given preference over a US citizen of birth, protected by the 14th amendment but because universities take the view, they are all the same, there is no respect for US born. What is worse is the ignorance that is taught by pushing
these deposed view from the homeland when that is not the case, these people left voluntarily for their own self interest. For those of us born here, there is no diaphoral model for explaining our history, but one of belonging in continuity, plus unlike those born in Mexico I'm not interested in Mexican politics or matters down there because I have no connection to anybody down there.
And because they weren't born here they push their form of culture and history at the expense of those that are from here, plus they live in two places at the same time whereas we don't. And if do, our relatives are from small towns within the US not from a 1000 miles away. The diasphoral model is based on the Jewish model of being displaced from Jerusalem but that was based on a forced exodus, for the Mexico City people, there is no forced displacement because they voluntarily moved for a job and a pension which I find problematic because that supercedes cultural survivor because the south of Mexico was not conquered whereas the north was. And it was those people that suffered.
I came across a quote from Geronimo who tells a Mexican officer, "You are from the south, I am from the north, you go south, I go north, I nor my people want nothing to do with you". Especially when they are intercepting our narrative and imposing they own views over us. Erasing our existence in the process.
