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In his autobiography, Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza writes about the pochos he found in Sacramento, California, in the second decade of the twentieth century: “They had learned to speak English of sorts and could still speak Spanish, also of sorts.
In the 1950s and 1960s the Mexican cinema produced several films depicting the lives of pochos, from both sides of the border, but emphasizing the importance of maintaining mexi-canidad.
Mexicans who have spent time in the United States and have acquired the mannerisms, values, and the English language may be considered pochos because they’ve become agringados (anglicized).
. Concerning the pochos, the chicanos suspected that they considered themselves too good for the barrio but were not, for some reason, good enough for the Americans” (1971, 203).