As for how we fit into society : There are literally HUNDREDS of cultures in this country. Colombians,Haitians, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Nicaraguans, Cambodians. Think about how ALL THOSE respond to assimilation in America. Their parents bring their culture with them into America and by the first time the their kids enter school they dress and act white or black or Mexican. The entire Southwest and Actually the entirety of America has come to view the culture of Mexican Americans as their own when in reality-blacks,whites or anyone had NO HAND in SHAPING ANY OF IT! AT ALL.
dikkies, Chucks, Lowriders, Gang signs, Graffiti, Modern Tattooing, Skater Culture, Alternative, Black Urban styles outside of NYC all got their cue from MEXICANS. The teardrops,hand tattoos, teh dikkies dressing, lowrider riding banging has been done 140 years by Mexicans in the ghettos of LA. If you think about how old that is compared to black American ( HIP HOP ) culture........basically when DOGTOWN, WHITE FENCE, HARPIES, AVENUES, CLANTON where out their gang banging blacks in the majority of America were still using toilets that read colored and still living majority wise in the South. As an example: Every single one of those gangs was involved in the Zoot Suit riots in 1943. Every single one is still active as hell today.
Now whom copies whom? throwing up that west side? whom copies whom when you cant see a black athlete,rapper or ball player without some sort of ESE, CHICANO, MEXICAN inkwork? What really do MExicans copy from blacks? Cause Mexicans in LA are original as hell and its blacks whom copied us and sold it to the rest of black America in a washed down way!
