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Tin Tan made several Mexican films portraying the Mexican American pocho who code-switches between English and Spanish, and speaks caló.
A pocho is a term used in Mexico to describe a person of Mexican heritage born and raised in the United States.
In Los Angeles, the writer Lalo Lopez has created a comic industry based on pocho caricatures that includes a comic strip, political cartoons, Pocho Productions, an Internet web page, Pocho Magazine, a political satire zine, and a calendar.
As with the word cholo, individuals have attempted to find the origin of the use of the word pocho in reference to Chicanos.
The word became more nationally known in 1959 with the publication of the novel Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal, which depicted the coming-of-age of a Chicano growing up in the Santa Clara Valley of California during the 1940s.