You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.
I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
People who know Mexico know me because I'm so much a part of Mexico.
To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.
I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.