Camilo Lara of Mexrissey in a podcast at The Mouth Magazine

An anonymous person writes:

This is cheerful, in a shit week.

Camilo Lara of Mexrissey - The Mouth Magazine Mouthcast

ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT MORRISSEY IN RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN HIS STATUS AS AN ICON IN SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE GROWTH OF HIS DEVOTED LATINO FANBASE. A COLLECTIVE COMPRISED OF MUSICIANS FROM SEVERAL TOP MEXICAN BANDS HAVE BEEN DRAWN TOGETHER BY A COMMON THREAD – MEXRISSEY ARE A SUPERGROUP RENOWNED FOR THEIR DISTINCTIVE RENDITIONS OF SONGS BY MORRISSEY AND THE SMITHS.

 

[21punksalute]

Love that they play "International Playgirl" in it's entirety two times!

 

[countthree]

Morrissey is an icon in South America, he is loved. I adore him

But Mexico (where he is more than loved) is located in North America, like USA.

The word "latino" used in USA as an oversimplification to denominate generically Mexico and everything located at the south of it... well... inaccurate at least.

In fact, Mexico is culturally more like the big south of USA than it will ever be like to Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, etc.

 

[AztecCamera]

Mexico and the USA are very different and both do not want to be associated with each other. They basically hate each other. Mexico is not like the "big south".

The Latins are Caucasian people from Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. It is stupid in the USA how Mexicans and other people from Central America and the Caribbean are called "Latinos" and they call themselves "Latinos" when they are people from descendants of Indians (Aztecs, Mayas, Incas) and Blacks in the Caribbean. The correct term is Hispanic.

 

[countthree]

Mexico and the USA are very different and both do not want to be associated with each other. They basically hate each other. Mexico is not like the "big south".

The Latins are Caucasian people from Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. It is stupid in the USA how Mexicans and other people from Central America and the Caribbean are called "Latinos" and they call themselves "Latinos" when they are people from descendants of Indians (Aztecs, Mayas, Incas) and Blacks in the Caribbean. The correct term is Hispanic.

I understand what you say. They don't want to be associated but they are more associated between themselves that with another countries.

I think the correct term is not Hispanic. Hispanics come from Spain, they don't include native americans neither descendants of African people. If you say so because of the language, that's not a reference since Spanish is not the only language in S.A. and there are another cultural references equally important that are not taken in consideration. If people have mexican citizenship they should be called Mexicans, likewise if they come from another country, they deserve the effort to be identified as what they are, like French and German. People shouldn't be named by one of their ethnicities. Especially when across all America (including USA) a big majority of the population is composed by a mixture of races. Thanks God for that. Likewise, all american citizens should be named american, not wasp, black or latino. Discrimination is awful. And self discrimination is worst.

Ethnicity aside, the effort of USA of assimilate the rest of the countries of America between themselves (except Canada) is a cultural colonialism and we shouldn't contribute with that simplification to make their life easier. We are very different and -for better or worse- we didn't choose to be a political union of states, like USA.