Apparently the term Mexican is not PC anymore. From what I hear, they find this offensive. Personally, I find Djiboutian offensive. Americans have used nation of origin as a precedent to describe a person's ethnicity (although I have also heard that African-American is out and "black" is back in.) Ergo this seems like a question of national pride. To not want to be described as the nation they emigrated from. Maybe it's also a question of 'I live in America now and want to be as American as possible.' I don't know, this is all speculation from me.
So what the in term is, you wonder? Ready? It's "migrant worker." You may as well call them "wetbacks" as far as I'm concerned: I do not believe "migrant worker" is a step up from Mexican.
To me, "migrant worker" brings about images of people slightly better off than homeless people. They work, but they're poor, taken advantage of, and don't have a stable place to live (damn my high school teacher for making me read Grapes of Wrath!) Personally, I'd much rather be called Mexican and dream of beer and bull fights.
All this thought is making me hungry- I think I'll have migrant worker for dinner.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
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Well in that case A Day Without a Migrant Worker sucked just as bad as A Day Without a Mexican. That's ridiculous -- I put the words "migrant worker" around the same place as "sweatshop kids". You know they're out there, but why call them by what they do? Not all Mexican people are migrant workers (I think of orange pickers when I hear the words migrant workers), there are restaurant workers and construction guys too!
That is plain ignorant. How about Hispanic? I really have no clue about what is going on anymore. Hell must be on its way.
My sister's other half owns a landscaping company... They call them amigos!! Which is worse?
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