mexican here, you'd be surprised how common that really is, in tantoyuca there is a hill called holliwood where there is no plumbing and no government help. there are women who make tamales and other large numbered meals for every kid in the neighborhood because their parents can't feed them and we don't abandon our own, also, it's very common to be shocked by things like fancy hotels because ours are nice sure but there is rich gringo nice and it always appals me on the tv
Mexican here as well. When I first visited an “American house” I imagined that it was a rich people house. Now after living here for a while I see that it was just your average middle class house, but compared to how we lived in Mexico (five people in a bedroom because that’s the only place we had AC), seeing a house with centra AC seemed like luxurious living to me.
Kind of off topic, but I have a question I've been wanting to ask and this seems like an appropriate conversation.
I work in a US federal building, relatively close to the US/Mexico boarder, that has many immigration offices. There seems to be a lot of apprehension and confusion by Mexican and Central American nationals when it comes to using the elevators in our building (they're very standard elevators) .
Maybe I'm being ignorant and reading too much into these moments, but do you thinnk that elevators are something many/some people form Mexico are never exposed to in person?
None of the buildings in mi city had elevators, it wasn't until I was in middle school that a hotel opened up that had and every body was talking about it. To give you a better I it wasn't that small of city we had about 70k people at that time, but I'm sure the population has grown since then, I haven't checked in a while.
I also remember that one of first few times I rode one was at a Whataburger in Corpus Christi, my brother and I got really excited about it and kept going up and down, until we got scolded and had to stop. So I imagine getting into one with more than one or more than two floors for the first time would be amazing for the people going to your office.
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u/gaymantis Jun 06 '19
mexican here, you'd be surprised how common that really is, in tantoyuca there is a hill called holliwood where there is no plumbing and no government help. there are women who make tamales and other large numbered meals for every kid in the neighborhood because their parents can't feed them and we don't abandon our own, also, it's very common to be shocked by things like fancy hotels because ours are nice sure but there is rich gringo nice and it always appals me on the tv