CHICANO IS A CHOICE
I think and this is just me.... from what ive heard....Is that we as Citizens of Mexico and as Citizens of America I'm only talking citizenship now.....( Mexicans vs Americans with Mexican Ancestry ) viewed each other as different (some not all) and this is the ugly part....i dont think it's right or cool.....i feel its divisive......but it is what it is........we basically hated on each other due to citizenship....so not until then did it become tribal and in doing that.....we have the theory you are talking about que no? One thinking: "you are not as" "Mexican" "or you are less of a Mexican"? Que no one became less or one felt lower and had to say the inverse as a "I'm better than you" type issue we have con Raza que no? From what I further speculate is that during the early 1900's short after the Mexican American War which had an inclusion of the "treaty of Hidalgo" for Tejanos and other Mexicanos that wanted to stay in America after Mexico lost half its territory......not cool but the treaty let you stay or choose since you were already there. Sentiment was at an all time high in the southwest states that border Mexico and the great depression didnt help with Sentiment being really bad and negative many factors were involved and taking place like the (Bracero Program Operation Wetback and the deportation of Mexican American Citizens and lynchings of Mexicans) I mean people were still saying remember the Alamo until 9-11....so I know that was a mouthful but yes division is real and these issues fueled the resentment of our own people by our people through systematic means of having to pick a side as many Americans do....im sure you see this all the time. But this is a recent issue. Mexica is Nahuatl and interpreted it means people if the navel of the moon and if you say it over and over you can \n\n\n\n\n\nI think and this is just me.... from what ive heard....Is that we as Citizens of Mexico and as Citizens of America I'm only talking citizenship now.....( Mexicans vs Americans with Mexican Ancestry ) viewed each other as different (some not all) and this is the ugly part....i dont think it's right or cool.....i feel its divisive......but it is what it is........we basically hated on each other due to citizenship....so not until then did it become tribal and in doing that.....we have the theory you are talking about que no? One thinking: "you are not as" "Mexican" "or you are less of a Mexican"? Que no one became less or one felt lower and had to say the inverse as a "I'm better than you" type issue we have con Raza que no? From what I further speculate is that during the early 1900's short after the Mexican American War which had an inclusion of the "treaty of Hidalgo" for Tejanos and other Mexicanos that wanted to stay in America after Mexico lost half its territory......not cool but the treaty let you stay or choose since you were already there. Sentiment was at an all time high in the southwest states that border Mexico and the great depression didnt help with Sentiment being really bad and negative many factors were involved and taking place like the (Bracero Program Operation Wetback and the deportation of Mexican American Citizens and lynchings of Mexicans) I mean people were still saying remember the Alamo until 9-11....so I know that was a mouthful but yes division is real and these issues fueled the resentment of our own people by our people through systematic means of having to pick a side as many Americans do....and I'm sure you see this all the time. And yes Mexica is a Nahuatl word that means people of the navel of the moon.....and chicano to me is a variant of (ME-XICA-NO)(MEXICANO)(XICANO)(ME-XICANO) (I-AM-XICANO) (I-AM-CHICANO) (SOY-CHICANO) (ME-CHICANO) and I have heard nothing more than what I have expressed to you thus far everything else is interpretation, speculation and I think all this is recent not before colonialism.