So I got this link from my undergraduate chapter's MEChA listserve:
It is definitely worth checking out and reading in its entirety! Someone else posted some additions:
More hilarity! I was rollin'. I have had so many of these experiences with friends and personally that I can't even type them all out because my mind is running through so many right now. As a Chicana/Latina/MEChista who moved to the East Coast from Tejaztlan for an Ivy League education - so many of those topics hit so close to home. I started to think if there were other things that my fellow Chicano/a friends used to do...YES THERE ARE:
1. Regardless of the weather - MEChA soccer/flag football tournaments were a common social activity
2. MEChA Parties were known around campus as the spot for drinking games and obscene amounts of liquor. (We never had money to buy books, always sat for hours waiting to meet with a financial aid counselor at the beginning of each semester, but we always had money each weekend for liqs and cerveza.)
3. Educated Chicano/as always want to take pictures with Mariachi bands (how many do you have?)
4. We swear that we know each Mexican dance even if we never danced it back home (Cumbia, Norteno, Tejano two-steps, waltz, etc.)
5. Check our IPOD - we have Vicente Fernandez (Only "El Rey"), Alejandro Fernandez, Mana, Los Tucanes, Selena (Not Gomez), Luis Miguel and for our own sentimental, homesick reasons, Linda Ronstadt.
6. We like our Chicano/a literature, history, and sociology books - our personal libraries are guaranteed to have a copy of Occupied America; The Borderlands/La Frontera; House on Mango Street; Bless Me, Ultima; and an anthropology of Chicana/o poetry...this is required Chicano/a studies reading that we thought we ought to keep in our homes.
PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN!!
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