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BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO
Dear Mexican: I'm sad that there aren't more Mexicans here in the
Detroit area. We're one of the few areas in the country that is pre-
dominately Catholic. We’ve welcomed wave after wave of Catholic
immigrants for well over a hundred years, and they’ve intermingled
and blended into our local society and culture. In the past, we've
accepted the Irish, the Italians, the Poles, the Ukrainians, and the
Chaldeans—all Catholic—and they've been welcomed into a local society
that shares the same beliefs and underlying cultural values.
Additionally, we're a strong Blue state with values most of our
mexicano friends would find intimately
familiar. Despite all this, our metro area
has the lowest population of Mexican-
Americans in the entire Estados Unidos.
Where's the love? — El Pulimento
Irlandés Católico
Dear Polack-Mick Papist: Appreciate the
amor, but gotta get your facts correcto.
Though Metro Detroit’s Mexican commu-
nity is tiny (about five percent, according to
the latest Census estimates), it’s not the
smallest such enclave of the 25 largest metro-
politan areas in the United States—the St. Louis
(2%), Pittsburgh (1.3%), Cincinnati (1.28%) and Baltimore (2.2%) areas all
have smaller wab populations. But your point is well-taken, and prompted an
epiphany from the Mexican. Gentle readers: consider the history of our great
Republic. Think of the most-notorious immigrants groups (legal or not), the
ones whom gabachos ridiculed for big families, booze binges, and propensity
to commit crimes: Irish, Poles, Italians, Hungarians, Czechs and Mexicans. The
common thread? Catholicism. Refry this hypothesis: most of the anti-Mexican
sentiment is actually anti-Catholic sentiment, and it’s a carryover from the still-
unfinished war between Elizabethan England (white, English, Protestant) and
Imperial Spain (Hispanic, Latin, Catholic) that rages for supremacy of the
Americas. Manifest Destiny was just one volley in the battle, and Mexican
mass migration is a logical flank maneuver in response. Call me crazy if you
must, but it’s a much more plausible conspiracy theory than, say, the NAFTA
Super-Highway. And don't worry, Polack-Mick Papist: Mexicans are working
their way to Detroit, one reconquista-ed town at a time.
I teach in Spanish and English to migrant students (young adults,
mostly) who are getting ready to take the GED. I’ve learned about a
lot more than just language in the last year and a half. We were talking
about the concept of fairies the other day—or rather, I was, because
my Mexican/Dominican/Guatemalan/Ecuadorian students had never
heard about the concept before. In Northern European folklore, there
are small magical folk who might help good people (children, specifical-
ly) with their chores, and might make it very difficult for bad people to
get their work done. Is there anything similar in Mexican folklore? I
thought maybe with the Mayan/Aztec influence, there might be some-
thing like fairies. — La Maestra
Dear Gabacha Teacher: Mexican folklore is vast, varies by region, and depend-
ent a bit too much on the Devil and wailing women, but fairies and other non-
midget phantasmagorical little people do enchant the Mexican mind. In the
1932 classic The Magic and Mysteries of Mexico: Arcane Secrets and Occult
Lore of the Ancient Mexicans and Maya, famed folklorist Lewis Spence noted
in hilariously antiquated fashion, "The fairy and her kind were as familiar to
the Red man as to the White, for the excellent reason that throughout all his
geographical ventures and peregrinations man has always been accompanied
by these invisible playmates as well as by his gods and other more exalted trib-
al patrons." He identifies two types: the Tepictoton (whom helped farmers with
their crops when causing desmadre) and the Cihuateteo, dead women whom
cast diseases on children. "Like the fairies of Europe," Spence writes, "they
were associated with the moon, and an examination of their pranks throws a
strong comparative light upon European fairyhood." Not only that, but Mexico
also believes in the world’s greatest sprite: Juan Gabriel, the bronze contempo-
rary to Elton John but with better hair, tunes and moves. ¡Al Noa Noa, JuanGa!
Gustavo Arellano is an investigative reporter on staff at the OC Weekly in Orange County, California. His
"¡Ask a Mexican!" column began in 2004 and today is syndicated in 32 publications nationwide. He is
also the author of a book by the same name. An extensive interview with Arellano can be found in the EW
archives online for Nov. 29, 2007. Arellano can be contacted at TheMexican@AskAMexican.net
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