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5 November 2013
“Aztec Warrior”, Lalo Ugalde
It was a bad decision on my part, but when I was finishing up the manuscript for what became
Gods, Gachupines and Gringos, I unwisely let some English teacher unknown to me, have a copy of the manuscript for what I thought was a bit of polishing and grammar checking. Whether that foreign English teacher in Chihuahua thought his role was in all this, I have no idea, but he took it upon himself to attack my inclusion of homosexuals among the many diverse forms of humanity in what I saw as a much more culturally and ethnically diverse society than is popularly assumed. Multiculturalism, and cultural appropriation is nothing new, and the creation of new cultural norms is nothing new.