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(PNS reporting from PRINCETON) A study from Princeton University has confirmed what many have long believed: Mexicans, and Mexican Americans, do not actually know how to dance to salsa music.

A Caribbean Hispanic export, salsa is often included with more typically Mexican dance styles, like the quebradita or cumbia, but the truth, according to the study, is that Mexicans don’t actually know what they are doing.

“Salsa is, like, a Cuban thing. My family is from Denver,” one research subject complained.

“Participants in the study reported anxiety and cluelessness when attending quinceañeras and hearing Elvis Crespo or Celia Cruz music playing,” said cultural anthropology professor Dr. Anton Flemming, who was the lead researcher on the project. [Mas…]

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Hey, Mr. Homie Rice Boy Liu: Do I really esound like that? (NSFW language.)

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Here in San Angeles there would be no restaurants without Mexicans in the kitchen. But they’re not cooking what you think.

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Broke? Unemployed? Did a Mexican who barely can speak English esteal your yob? Learn to speak broken English like the Mexicans and you can get five yobs, just like they do!

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They’re confused, the poor marketeers. They try so hard to sell fish esticks and bleach and PETA to “Hispanics,” but they are low and slow on the learning curve.

Nearly Half of Second-Gen Hispanics Feel Like Ads Don’t Target Them, laments the tradezine Adweek.

You mean pochos with limited/zero Spanish aren’t picking up trendy brand tips watching telenovelas on Spanish-language TV? And nobody reading this story really cares all that much about Juanes’ aftershave? What’s an earnest marketeer to do?

Los Pochodores are here to help with the Pocho Ocho best ways to reach out to that elusive “Hispanic” market: [Mas…]

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Walt Disney, Inc. wants to trademark ‘Dia de los Muertos’ (toon)

by Lalo Alcaraz May 7, 2013 Cartoons
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BREAKING MERCH NEWS: MUERTO MOUSE prints signed by me, Lalo Alcaraz, are now available for sale. Click here for the deets and magic PayPal button. The Walt Disney Company filed several trademark applications last week with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.GOV) to secure the name “Dia de Los Muertos” as a service [...]

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MIGRA-mocking U.S.-Mexico beach border wall volley ball (video)

by GERSHOM B. MITZRAIM May 7, 2013 Cultura
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Walleyball, from 2006, documents a very illegal game of beach volleyball – a game played on both sides of the US-Mexico border where a gigantic fence cleaves the beach shared by San Diego and Tijuana. On one side, Tio Sam deploys choppers and coppers; on el otro lado, mariachi bands serenade families enjoying paletas. In [...]

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Happy Inko! Celebrate National Cartoonists Day on Cinco de Mayo

by Lalo Alcaraz May 5, 2013 Cartoons
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Happy Inko de Mayo from La Cucaracha! Yes, today is the day where we celebrate cartoonists, as it is National Cartoonists Day. Serio, the National Cartoonists Society started this event a few years ago, apparently  because they had no Latino members at the time who might have mentioned May 5 is already Cinco de Mayo, [...]

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I’m drinking a cerveza and contemplating Cinco de Mayo

by ABELARDO DE LA PEÑA JR. May 3, 2013 Cultura
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I approach el Cinco de Mayo with excitement and ambivalence. I learned the history of the Battle of Puebla as the son of proud Mexicans, who happened to be immigrants. The story goes: On the fifth of May 1862, a small Mexican army kicks French butt. Bueno. My dad and grandmother worked at the Cinco [...]

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