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The film Mi Familia, directed and released in 1995 by Gregory Nava, includes a comical scene depicting the agringado son, a UCLA student, bringing his Anglo girlfriend home to meet his Mexican family.
Originally an Anglo stronghold, part of it is still known even among French speakers as Upper-Outremont, family home of that splendidly ambiguous French-Canadian, prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
When Anglo Americans moved into Texas and bought enormous tracts of land, they established huge ranches and hired Mexican vaqueros to work them.
Assimilating more easily with the Anglo community — only Protestant schools accepted their children — Eastern European Jews have “graduated” to wealthy Westmount or emigrated, again, to Toronto.
Anglos usually referred to the Spanish-speaking element as native or, again in a kind of leveling parallelism, as Spanish , never as Spaniards , on the model, probably unconscious, of Anglo , short for Anglo-American . Hispanics who prefer to emphasize cultural ties with Mexico, especially la Republica Azteca, as most in New Mexico definitely do not, may prefer to go by the name of Chicano , which implies political as much as national or ethnic identity.