Email Author Gustavo Arellano

Awards

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  Ask a Mexican

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Ask a Mexican!

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 7, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 12-7-06"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 16, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 11-16-06"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 31, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 8-31-06"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Ask a Mexican

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 6, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, January 6, 2005

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 14, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, April 14, 2005

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 7, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, October 7, 2005

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2008 Stories by Gustavo Arellano

• Why You Can't Be a Land Baron Down South

  published June 24, 2008

  Dear Mexican: What do you think would happen if U.S. citizens could as easily buy land and set up businesses in Mexico as Mexicans can do in... More >>

• Philadelphia Edición

  published June 17, 2008

  Dear Mexican: I recently went to a game at Dodgers Stadium. The white people cheering for the St. Louis Cardinals would clap and cheer when... More >>

• Why Do Mexicans Swim in Their Clothes?

  published June 10, 2008

  Dear Readers: The Mexican has previously published only one "best of" column in his nearly four years of living under his cousin's... More >>

• Brown Doomsday?

  published June 3, 2008

  Dear Mexican: First it was the Native-Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. Now I fear that American prejudice will soon... More >>

• Gustavo Gets the Dumbest Question Ever

  published May 27, 2008

  Dear Mexican: I'm a Mexican-American, but I always lie and tell people that my ancestors were from Spain and immigrated to the United States... More >>

• Salma Hayek Sells Out

  published May 20, 2008

  Dear Mexican: Why did the Mexican comedian Cantinflas never catch on in Hollywood? I thought he was supposed to usher in the Mexican wave of... More >>

• Do Other Immigrant Populations Mix Languages the Way Mexicans Do?

  published May 13, 2008

  Dear Readers: My recent column regarding the dissimilarities between Scots and Mexicans provoked a surprising amount of angry responses.... More >>

• Why Do Mexicans Hit the Gas?

  published May 6, 2008

  Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now. Buy, por favor! Now, on to the... More >>

• Are Mexicans Like Scots?

  published April 29, 2008

  Dear Mexican: Consider the similarities between my people, the Celtic Scots, and yours, the Hispanic Mexicans. Both of our people trace their... More >>

• What's With the Emo Riots South of the Border?

  published April 22, 2008

  Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. Buy it,... More >>

• Press 1 for English, Pendejo

  published April 15, 2008

  Q. Being in law enforcement, I've had to handle many radio runs. I think Mexicans are some of the hardest-working people in Mexi-America, but... More >>

• Death, Taxes, and Mexicans

  published April 8, 2008

  Dear Mexican: Sitting on my desk is a levy from the Internal Revenue Service for over $12,000 in unpaid taxes. Turns out some dude used my... More >>

• How the Mexican People Got their Color

  published April 1, 2008

  Dear Mexican: Why are indigenous peoples from north of the Rio Grande called "redskins" and those south of it called "brown-skinned"? —El... More >>

• Two Heroic Mexicans: Salma Hayek's Breasts

  published March 25, 2008

  Q. Dear Mexican: I'm a gay man in his mid-thirties who has always loved Mexican men. And this question is not only from my experience, but... More >>

• Gustavo Goes Mano a Mano

  published March 18, 2008

  Dear Mexican: Since moving to Aztlán from Boston, I've spent so much time with my next-door neighbor from Mexico City that I've taken to... More >>

• Who Asked You to Make the Bed?

  published March 11, 2008

  Q. Dear Mexican: Mexicans are angry that the United States might protect its own borders and make it harder for someone to sneak into this... More >>

• Why Is It That Mexicans Work for Cheap?

  published March 4, 2008

  Why is it that Mexicans accept lower salaries than their legal or American counterparts? Example: One contractor in Columbus, Georgia, told... More >>

• Where’s the Mexican Love for Obama?

  published February 26, 2008

  Why won't Mexicans vote for a black man? —Hillary Hater Dear Readers: Dozens of ustedes have sent the above... More >>

• Mexicans Have It Better Than You Think

  published February 19, 2008

  Dear Mexican: Why do you suppose Mexico has such a hard time getting its act together? It has vast natural resources, good climate, natural... More >>

• Why Do Mexicans Always Rent Blood In Blood Out?

  published February 5, 2008

  Q. Dear Mexican: My parents were Greeks who legally immigrated to the United States in 1920. When it became harder for Greeks to immigrate,... More >>

• Going South

  published January 29, 2008

  Q. Why do people think Mexicans have small dicks? My novio sure doesn't! —Bobbi Bobblehead A. Dear Gabacha: And... More >>

• Puppy Love

  published January 22, 2008

  Dear Readers: Mucho feedback from ustedes regarding recent questions about archetypical Mexican dogs and the propensity of... More >>

• Morrison Rules, Romo Drools

  published January 15, 2008

  Dear Mexican: At a weekly Doors tribute-band gig, I noticed that the majority of the crowd was Mexican. I swear, sometimes it seems as if the... More >>

• Mexicans and their DUI's: One More Corona for the Road!

  published January 8, 2008

  Q. Dear Mexican: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that Mexican-Americans have the highest proportion of DUIs and... More >>

• Golden Tablets and the American Dream

  published January 1, 2008

  Dear Mexican: I feel that the more Mexicans come to this country, the better. I am a Mormon, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter... More >>