lo que es de nosotros...

estuve escuchando algo de george lopez. i had not heard his stand up, although i had heard people talking about it. it was hilarious! i know it's so stereotypical, but come on!: we all have that in our families, where when you're dying they have to bust out with the 'vicks'-cure. you could have a freaking ear-ache & somehow vicks is the cure-all. then there was the other joke about how we're do-it-yourselfers. we can't hire people to do our home projects; we always have someone who knows of a guy that can do it for cheaper. yeah, g.l. was funny!

i rememember when i first started learning about who we were, as Latinos, as mexicanos, as chicanos. things started making sense. When I lived in Mexico, I realized how different all these things were, how I became like a chameleon, adapting to the context & issues of the place I inhabited at the time. There were many differences between mexicanos & "pochas/os" like me. But still, this was me, I said to myself. This is where I came from. I was introduced to literature and arts, and other things that were "ours."

we're so heterogenous, but at least many of the mexican families i know can relate to george lopez. we have something in common.