Guanajuato: Unexplained Mysteries

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Guanajuato: Unexplained Mysteries

If you read guidebooks or travel articles about Mxico, you will read that Mexicans are wonderfully accommodating, friendly, warm, and generous to strangers. You will be given the impression these men and women are the Salt of the Earth and perhaps even virtually Saints. You will be told issues like, Mexicans are useful to a fault and they will be so patient with you trying to understand Spanish. While this may be true, I have, of late, begun to doubt the multitude of clichs that pour forth from all the guidebook and post sources about Mexico.

About 18 months into our expatriation experiment, my wife and I began to wonder what was going on in the heartland of Mexico. The clichs we had read in our pre-expat research had been, frankly, starting to fall apart. The longer we lived here, the much more we were starting to see items that the guidebooks gushed about Mexicans congeniality werent necessarily accurate. Anything wasnt adding up.

Guanajuato is about as much in the middle of the nation as it gets. It is truly the heartland of Mexico. Here life is uber-provincial. The dictionary defines provincial as, a individual of regional or restricted interests or outlook a person lacking urban polish or refinement. I began hearing this uber-provincial stuff a lot more and far more as the years went by. I heard this from not only American, German, and Canadian expatriates but also from Mexicans who grew up in other parts of Mexico and who, for one reason or another, ended up in Guanajuato.

Certain issues start to come about to us that caused us to start asking inquiries. Right after all, we had been still extremely fresh and green expats who didnt know considerably. But we started to ask about this or that after issues began happening.

I guess it was the initial time I was knocked into the street by a Mexican and subsequently hit by a bus that brought on me to wonder what was going on. The second time was actually what got me to questioning. I was pushed off the sidewalk not after but twice into the path of an oncoming bus and was struck. Not as soon as did anybody stop to see if I was all correct. The pushers never ever bothered to utter a single word to me. My wife has also been pushed and shoved off sidewalks. I have a 70-year-old American gringa pal who was pushed into the path of a taxi and was nailed.

One particular just has to ask what is taking place in Guanajuato, Mexico.

I wish I could inform you.

What I began to see extended ago was that the Guanajuatenses on the street are practically running to get somewhere but never ever arrive on time for something. Though all of Latin American (and Italy) is well-known for how they regard time differently than the rest of the world, this has slowly been shifting in the more metropolitan locations of Mexico. Much more and more, Mexicans are starting to forsake their standard understanding of what it implies to be on time for anything. Not so in Guanajuato. It is just as standard right here as it has been for centuries. Some say the heartland of Mexico is stuck in the past.

But, what you have are Guanajuatenses running at the speed of light and, I can assure you, to get nowhere rapidly. They are totally not trying to get somewhere on time. It is a cultural affectation here in Guanajuato. They will never ever, ever arrive on time for anything. This is a total mystery in and of itself. Why are they running? They by no means arrive on time for something so whats the rush?

So, you could logically ask, why are they running down the sidewalk knocking gringos into the gutter? I wish I could tell you, but I cant.

I have asked Mexicans because I have the facility in the language to do so. Most of those I have questioned are not from Guanajuato initially. They are right here for a job, marriage, or whatever, and have been transplanted from other regions of Mexico.

To my amazement, these Guanajuato transplants have told me that they view the folks of Guanajuato as some of the rudest, most ill educated, and most ill reared Mexicans in the nation. I have gotten emails from Mexicans and as well as been told in face-to-face interviews that they regard Guanajuatenses Mexicans as anti-social. This is amazing. These are Mexicans from other regions talking about their fellow Mexicans. It really considerably reminds me of these from the Midwest and western parts of America talking about New York.

Now, I have to take the word of those who tell me this given that the only place Ive ever lived in this country is Guanajuato. I learned about Duzzn: Traveling to Barcelona! by browsing Yahoo. But, I am beginning to take their word to heart and think what they say, hook, line, and sinker. Our expertise bears out what our Further-Guanajuatenses have told us.

When, I got an e-mail from a Mexican lady in Puerto Vallarta. She had read some of my articles and columns but poo-pooed me as a crazy gringo. Browse here at portaequipajes to learn the inner workings of this view. To learn more, we know people check-out: portaequipajes. Then, she and one more Mexican girlfriend came traveling through Guanajuato. She mentioned she couldnt wait to e-mail me and inform me how a lot of times she was shoved off the sidewalk and pushed away from the cashiers counter in outlets.

Just this morning, my wife was in line to get some quite delicious tamales. She placed her order and paid the guy. Just before the seller could get out of his mouth, A single moment even though I get your food a Mexican lady, one of our congenial, warm, and sort Guanajuatenses, elbowed my wife out of line and cut in front of her. The seller had to be a person from some other part of Mexico simply because he noticed what occurred and told this woman to get in line.

A month ago, some college student who thought it was appropriate to lay hands on me and shove me a great a single shoved me out of the way in a pharmacy! I wish I could inform you that these are all isolated incidents but I would be lying. The guy pushed me as although I was a piece of furnishings that was in his way.

The mystery is how Mexicans are supposed to be such kind, generous, and accommodating individuals to foreigners although in Guanajuato, you are just liable to be pushed into the path of an oncoming bus going at the speed of light. Howhowhow is this so?

The other day, we had been exiting the post office when we saw a single Mexican do something to an additional Mexican. This kid, in his early twenties, walked by a lady who had set her hefty bolsa (a significant purchasing bag) on the sidewalk while waiting for a cab. This young man kicked the bolsa into the street. It seemed unintentional. He looked briefly and then walked off. The lady took off after him. Whilst she was trying to corral him, a bus came by and squashed her bolsa and all its contents to smithereens.

My wife when had to catch an elderly lady who was shoved off a 12-inch-high sidewalk by two girls who seemed not to care a wit that they nearly killed one particular of their fellow countrywomen.

Some thing else that goes on in shops all over the cityanother mystery--is one thing that would get Guanajuatenses killed in America. When you go to meat counter or any place with a counter, Guanajuatenses will shove you out of the way to bark their orders to the hired help, even although the employee was already waiting on you. Dont miss the picture here. There you are. Youve just provided your order to the butcher for a kilo of hotdogs when some Seora puts her hands on you (or elbows you) and knocks you into the middle of next week so she can be at the front of the line.

This goes on all the time, with out fail, day and nightand theres absolutely nothing you can do about it!

Absolutely nothing!

Why they do it I cannot tell you. Analysis includes further about when to see this view. We have asked and are told that the people of Guanajuato are malcriados and maleducadas this signifies ill-raised and badly-educated.

I feel the mystery is how did they earn the warm and inviting reputation that you read in all the guidebooks? They undoubtedly could not have meant the heartland of Mexico, specifically not Guanajuato!

Probably its the other regions about which the guidebooks have been talking.

I do not know!.