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When Gringos Attack
thought I would write on Internet forums, you will not
another article about a read about what life really is
subject that's been near like as an American living in
and dear to my heart since the Mexico. In the top five or so
wife and I moved to Central books that are commercially
Mexico. We are here in the available in this genre, you will
Colonial City of Guanajuato, not read even a hint as to what
where we've lived for more than you can expect in your life as a
five years and counting. It has Gringo living in the
been interesting to say the Gringolandias in Mexico.
least. If you are one of my dear
Hatemongering Readers who wants And, let's face the truth for
to kill me (not joking), then you once, shall we? The vast majority
know that I've written a lot of potential retirees move to the
about how Gringos act when they cities that have Gringo Enclaves,
move to Mexico and pretend they which the Mexicans call:
are expatriates. GRINGOLANDIAS. No amount of
denial, flustering and
Why, why, why, you ask, do I keep blustering, ranting and raving,
writing about a subject that threatening and vile profanities
garners not just hate-filled is going to change the truth.
comments, threats, but an Nearly 100 % of the Gringos in
occasional attempt (still not Mexico live in cities that have
joking) to kill me? very well developed Gringo
infrastructures.
Well…the reason is simple yet
multifaceted. What you will read in the books
and Ezines that want to attract
No one writes about this issue. you to Mexico so they can sell
Other than a few really sad posts you an overpriced house are
glowing reports and promises on Doug" fans of mine (still not
how the local Mexicans will "Love joking) in Guanajuato and San
You Here" and are "As Friendly Miguel de Allende, they would
and Honest as Christ Himself." utter such superlatives as, "Doug
They tell you that moving to Bower is very well known here and
Mexico is like walking onto the he's a big-fat liar." They engage
set of the old TV show "Fantasy in hyperbolic language like, "You
Island." They promise there will are the most hated Gringo in all
be a "Fantasy Island Welcoming of Mexico." You would think that
Party" just waiting for you since the collective lot of them could
you've come to set the little muster enough brain cells to come
brown people free from their up with a testable hypothesis
third-world bondage. once in a while. But, may I just
say that drug addiction and
By the way, before you begin alcoholism, something for which
plotting my death anew, the they are widely known among the
phrase "little brown people" came Mexicans who serve them (I know
from the mouth of a Gringolandian because I've talked with their
in Guanajuato when she explained servants), can cause mass
why the Gringolandians were hallucinations and delusions. So,
raising money for their there you go.
charity—to help these little
brown people. In recent days, I've run across
others who have the courage to
Trust me, you will not hear or write about what they see and
read this in the move-to-Mexico hear in the Gringolandias that
literature on the market. have infected the Republic of
Mexico. One thing I've reported
If you talk with the besides the ill treatment of
"I-Really-Would-Love-To-Kill-You- Mexicans by the Gringolandians is
the actual physical assaulting of this church as they fellowshipped
Mexicans by Gringos. The in the church's courtyard.
Canadians with whom I've spoken Granted, the Noise Factor is
tell me they see this behavior something that the American
performed more by Americans who Gringo often fails to take into
think it Appropriate Pro-Social consideration when making the
Behavior to attack someone with a decision to move to Mexico.
right cross rather than discuss However, this woman attacked an
the problem than people of other entire group of Mexicans with her
nationalities. Once when I was water hose as the solution.
sitting in San Miguel de Allende, Another incident reported by
I saw a Gringa roll up a Golson was when some Gringo
newspaper and hit a beggar who walked into a bar and unplugged
asked for a peso. She treated him the jukebox because he thought it
as though he were a mangy cur to excessively loud.
be shooed away.
In Puerto Vallarta, there is a
In Barry Golson's book, Gringos renowned woman who, every time
in Paradise, he recounts a story she thinks the Mexicans and their
told to him by a Mexican woman animals are too loud, blasts the
about a church service that took cosmos with one of those fog
place one morning. Apparently a horns that come in a can of
Gringa, who lived next door to highly-compressed air that you
the church, had grown tired of can buy as to use on your boat. I
the noise that is inevitable when actually met this woman.
two or more Mexicans congregate
for any reason, and decided it Another woman in Vallarta, who
was Appropriate Pro-Social chose as an act of her own free
Behavior to take her water hose will to live next door to a bar,
and hose down the congregants of would throw things, like marbles,
at the bar patrons when the noise practice their own cultural
got too loud. As a result, she traditions and celebrate their
nearly lost her life while national holidays. Grocery stores
walking home in one early evening are stocked with
because some Mexicans decided to locally-unfamiliar products that
give her a beating. hail from their homeland.
An academic related to us stories 3. American professionals largely
she was told by Mexican locals in work illegally in San Miguel and
a certain Mexican town about pay no taxes.
seeing Gringos slapping cab
drivers. 4. They typically do not pay
their servants the Social
Sheila Croucher, a professor of Security taxes required by law.
political science at Miami
University in Ohio, and author of 5. The illegal businesses run by
"Globalization and Belonging: The the American gringo community
Politics of Identity in a rips off the local San Miguel de
Changing World," made these Allende government in excess of
observations about San Miguel de more than four million pesos a
Allende: year in unpaid taxes.
1. San Miguel de Allende attracts 6. Some Americans are actually
one of the largest foreign illegal aliens and do not bother
populations in Mexico. with proper documentation.
2. Most do not learn the local 7. Some are even involved in the
language and reside and socialize Illegal Drug Trade and take drugs
within an isolated cultural across the different Mexican
enclave. These immigrants state lines.
the most lovingly honest and
And, this pretty picture of patient people on the face of the
Gringolandia is never addressed earth…that Fantasy Island
by its inhabitants. They have not Welcoming Party. One woman in San
yet, in the five years I've been Miguel de Allende wrote that you
writing about this answered the won't find sinful things there
tenets of argument. I wonder how since "this is a Catholic
they will respond to the others country."
who are making the same
observations as I have made. They Patient? These Gringos evidently
will attack you personally. They have never ridden in a car with a
will call you names. And, some of Mexican driver or stood on a
them will threaten you. You've street when the slightest lull in
got to take these crazies traffic causes drivers to have to
seriously. They have the motive halt their forward motion. The
and the monetary means to have way they lay on horns and drive
you assaulted. on sidewalks, you would swear the
possibility of a traffic jam was
Ad Hominem, Beg the Question, and not included in the Mexican
Red Herrings and any other Driver's Handbook.
fallacies you can think of are
the only arguments you will get Honest? Today we got into a cab.
out of them. Not one, count them, When the driver learned where we
zero, has tried offering a lived, he kicked us out of the
reasonably constructed cab claiming there would too much
counterargument. traffic in that neighborhood. I
didn't even flinch or offer a
I have to add this: Almost all of protest. We got of the cab. It
the expat literature that exists would have done no good to
paints a picture of Mexicans as resist. We hailed another cab and
told the cab driver where we Gringos stupidly hand over large
lived. His response was, "OK." No sums of money to Mexicans for
protests, no mention that the loans or building projects, only
traffic was too heavy in our to have the Mexican disappear
neighborhood. We told him what into oblivion with the Gringo's
the other cab driver said. He money, never to be seen again!
said to call the cab company and The Gringos don't ask for a
complain because the first cabbie receipt for the money nor do they
was telling us a lie. And, it was ask for the person's name,
obvious we were told an outright telephone number, or address.
lie because the traffic in our They just hand over money to
neighborhood was even lighter people they don't know and may
than usual! never have even seen before. Do
Gringos behave this way in the
I've lost track of how many USA? I don't think so!
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