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When Gringos Attack



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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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