>>13128516And this is why, back then they were pretty racist towards us latinos even though we technically arent a race. They did same shit to italians going as far as lyching them, not sure why americans were like this.
>>13128518Interesting read
Two forces served to incubate street gangs of Mexican origin in Los Angeles and in other Western cities: physical and cultural marginalization. The barrios in which the earliest and most firmly established gangs developed were well-demarcated settlements of Mexican-Americans and immigrants. They were located in geographically isolated areas that other settlers and developers had bypassed as less appropriate for habitation, and were further isolated by cultural, racial, and socioeconomic barriers enforced by ingrained prejudices of the Anglo-American community. This rendered the barrios more impervious to outside influences.
Immigrants were culturally marginalized between their society of origin and the dominant American culture to which they had migrated. Cholo youth, the poorest of the poor marginalized immigrants, could not fully assimilate into Anglo culture or develop a unique identity that might incorporate both Anglo and Latino culture, and so created a subculture. Being a cholo allowed such youth to assert their own Latino identity, take pride in it, and deny “being enbacheado (Anglicized)”. In other words, these street youth shaped their own cholo (a derivative of the Spanish solo, meaning “alone”) subculture. Gangs were formed from youths who were culturally and socially alienated and who willingly gravitated to barrio hangouts.
https://milagro.org/chicano-gang-history-and-culture/ 