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Adventures in the MexiCAN Mother Land
When a BAMF goes abroad
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31.8 Million: Mexicans in the United States
The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual Cinco de Mayo fact sheet on Mexicans recently. Using updated numbers from the 2010 American Community Survey, it offers a little more insight on our community than previously known.
31.8 million U.S. residents are of Mexican heritage, with a median age of 25.5. That’s 9.4% of the total U.S. population and about three-quarters (63 percent) of the 50.5 million classified as “Hispanic.” (Hispanic is in quotes because this is the term the U.S. government uses, although we know it’s completely inaccurate when referring to Mexicans, for it refers to people of Spain.)
61% of us reside in California (11.4 million) and Texas (8.0 million).
Of the 50 U.S. states, Mexicans are the largest “Hispanic” group in 40 of them. “More than half these states were in the South and West regions of the country, two in the Northeast region, and in all 12 states in the Midwest region,” reports the U.S. Census Bureau.
Read the Fact Sheet Here
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Pressing the #2 on the phone for Español and getting faster service. haha oooh yeah!
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Hundreds of Quinceañeras Celebrate in Mexico City
348 young ladies from Mexico City participated in a mass ‘Festia de quince años,’ a celebration of a girl’s fifteenth birthday, put on by the city’s government on Saturday.
The theme for the event was “Young Women: Women With Rights.”
Dresses and bouquets were donated by merchants from the Lagunilla and Jamaica sections of Mexico City.
(Source: aljazeera.com)
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Minnesota Timberwolves point guard Ricky Rubio went out of his way this weekend to suggest his teammate, Kevin Love, looked “even worst” than a Mexican.
“Ok, he doesn’t look like a mexican anymore but I think he looks even worst… Here is our superstar,” tweeted Rubio Saturday in reference…
