Borderismos

Alien
A term used by opportunistic politicians and sleazy reporters to describe any legal or illegal immigrant in the U.S., as well as people with accents or exotic clothes, and people who exhibit eccentric social, sexual or aesthetic behavior.

Amigoization
Process of happy Mexicanization currently taking place in the Southwestern U.S. This phenomenon was first detected by Gran Vato José Antonio Brciaga, Minister of Information of the seceding Republik of Berkeley. The opposite of "borderization".

Art-mageddon
The end of the world according to the art world, or the end of the art world itself.

Aztec High-Tech, El
Undercover antropóloco, apocalyptic disc-jockey and cross-cultural salesman. Poses as a performance artist. Goes by the dubious names of "The Warrior for Gringostroika", "El Naftazteca" and "El Quebradito". Gringos often call him Gwermo GoMex Piñ or Yiguermo Comes Pennis. His mother calls him Bill.

Aztlán
The "original land" in Aztec mythology. According to Chicano poets, it was created in what is now the U.S. Southwest. Also the name of a trucking company in East L.A.

Borderígena
A citizen of the great border region of the Americas. O sea, you and I, and all of the pinche raza we know.

Borderization
Self-explanatory. Currently afflicting the U.S. and Western Europe, this process is also known by sociologists as "calcutization" or "tercermundización".

Border Pop
A transnational music and fashion movement that encompasses among othe loqueras and rhythms, punkarachi, techno-banda, huapunkgo and the bizarre Tex-Mex Bhanghra movement.

Canochi
An upside down or inverted Chicano; meaning, a Mexiacan who became chizanized without ever having to leave Mexico.

Chica-lango
Half Chicano and half "chilango" (derogatice term for a hegemonic Mexico City hipster).

Chicanadians
Second generation Mexicans living in Canada and/or children of Mexican and Canadian parents living in the U.S. Pleae do not confuse this term with "Can-aliens" which refers to any undocumented Canadian, inside or outside of Canada.

Chicano(a)
"A Mexica-American who doesn't have an Anglo image of him/herself." (Vol. 13 of Encyclopedia Chicania)

Culti-multuralism
An Esperantic Disney world view in which all cultures, races and sexes live happily together. Coined by Chicano antropólco Robert Sánchez, the term went out of use in 1992.
CyberVato, El
Seditious accomplice of "El Naftazteca", media pirate and information-superhighway bandito. Goes by the name of Bob Sifuentes.
Desmodernidad
State of being without a mother or living chaos.
Empty V
After "Reali-T.V.", the second largest conglomerate on the planet.
Free Raid Agreement
Whoops! Just a typo!
Free Taco Agreement
An innovative economic intiative designed by The Chicano Secret Service. Its main objective is the production and distribution of free tacos to the starving and deterritorialized gringo minorities. En español "Tratado de Libre Comerse". Favor de no confudirlo con el (intraducible) "Tratado de Libre Cogerse".
Ganga
From the English word "gang". A term coined b the U.S. Police Department to describe all people of color under 18 years of age.
Gringálatra
He/she who adores gringos.
Gringostroika
A continental grass-roots movement that advocates the complet economic and cultural reform of U.S. anarcho-capitalism.
Gringotlani(teca)
Nomadic Anglo tribe which migrated to Southern Mexico and Guatemala in the early 1970s. They are known for their colorful pnchos, stylish huaraches and encyclopedic knowledge of Latino culture in general.
Hanging Chickens, (Los)
In the 19th century, the sinister Texas Rangers used to lynch Mexican migrant workers, who were then referred to as "pollos". Ther term is still used throughout the Southwest. Any other political, metaphysical, erotic or artistic interpretation of the chickens hanging on stage is welcomed.
Jaina
Spanglization of "honey". Sweetheart, novia, torta, chava, chuca, mi locota, etc.
Jalapeño pusher
A petty criminal who sells chiles on the streets to intoxicate innocent American children
Maquiladora Art
A model of production often practiced by cultural institutions residing on the U.S. side of the border. The Mexican and Chicano artists provide the raw talent, while the gringos take all the credit and administer the operation.
Menage-a-Trade
Synonymous with NAFTA
Mexkimo
A polar or polarized Mexican. Mexkimo settlements are found in what used to be Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and British Columbia
Miki Mikiztli Califas
Nahuatl for "California, the house of death".
Naftart
A cultural intiative created by the three NAFTA countries, which utilized art as a form of conservative diplomacy, and as a means to create a conflic-free image of a country for the cole purpose of seducing foreign investors and cultural tourists.
Othercide
The murdering of otherness.
Pene-trading
The act of "trading" with a smaller and weaker country. It also refers to the act of trading male genitalia.
Performear
Spanglish for "to piss on your audience".
Pocho(a)
He/she who bastardizes Spanish language and Mexican aesthetics. Infamous pochos include members of Culture Clash, The Chicano Secret Serrvice, Réne Yanez, Sandra Cisneros, Rubén Martinez, Sifuentes and Gómez-Peña.
Post-CNN Chicano Art
A new techno-rascuache aesthetic that fues epic rap poetry, performance art,interactive television, holographic radio and computer art, but with a Chicanocentric perspective and sleazoid slant.
Pus-modernity
The infected modernity
Saint Frida (Kahlo)
Holy Patroness of the ethno-feminists and Naftart dealers.
Sexual Democracia
A Latin American version of democracy in which political decisions are made according to sexual desire.
Spanglization
A continental infection for which there is no antidote
Supermojado
Boder hero. Conceptual carnal of Superbarrio. Champion of undocumented workers' rights and archenemy of Migrasferatu.
Television
White people's freedom of speech.
Vatoman
Chicano Batman. Colleague of "Supermojado" and lover of "La Batichica de Mexicali".
Virtual Barrio
The Chicano inter-neta.
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Last Updated 1/4/96

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