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Kevin!

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mindfulness, mexico, memes, languages, local, future, translations, spanish, globalization, english, guadalajara, formist, mongrels, migration, identity, words

I enjoyed a birria WP orgy this Sunday at El Chololo, a popular restaurant near Chapala WP, and just as I was entering the bathroom two brown, impossibly small indian kids were chasing each other out of it. The (slightly) bigger one yelled to his mate: “Kevin, ’perame!” (“Kevin, wait for me!”).

I think it was a moment to amber, because surprised as I was of the Irish name having found its way into this beautiful brown boy, beacon of a brown new world, my surprise was really at how Mexican it sounded, how accustomed I had become to hearing such Anglo-Saxon names (Celtic Brian is very popular too) in young Mexican children.

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2 Comments

Yo

A mi neta me cae mal eso de ponerle Quebin al chamaco, se me figura el resultado de malinchismo cruzado con ver “Mi pobre angelito” demasiadas veces….son indígenas (not that there is anything wrong with that), a quien quieren engañar?

elzr

Who says they want to fool anyone with their names?

Context confusion often happens with “out” groups when we or they scrutinize their behavior. To their detriment, they tend to be evaluated by criteria that are irrelevant to their initial intentions and goals. They may be unaware of why they first engaged in a particular action, and thus can be persuaded by the larger, more powerful group that they are behaving incompetently. The “in” group has unwittingly redefined the context of the “out” group members’ behavior. (Ellen J. Langer, Mindfulness, p40-1)


And malinchismo is but the bracing belief (which I share and love) that the individual is in control of the culture.