I made a recent discovery about a fraction of Mexican culture.

Our maintenance man, and his brother who lives with his family, were over moving a new fridge into our place one evening. They began speaking to each other, but it did not sound like Spanish at all, nor did the elder brothers accent sound Spanish a bit.

Now we had been under the assumption that they were from Mexico, but this was a little confusing to me.

I finally asked my son's friend, who is from Mexico, what was with the maintenance guys accent, it did not sound Mexican/Spanish. He said that the whole family speaks something called "Triki". I investigated for over and hour and found out it is Copala Triqui, and is spoke by a limited group in inner region of Mexico.

This boy made it sound like it was some weird foreign language, inferior and something to be made fun of.

After reading this article about the culture and lagnuage: http://www.sil.org/Mexico/mixteca/triqu ... ch-trc.htm , I now understand where my son's atypical Mexican friend gets his idea about this mans language and ways.

Apparently the average Spanish speaking Mexican looks down on these people and their language. Apparently these people have been dominated by this inferiority complex placed on them by the majority of the Mexican population. Shall we say "racism" and "xenophobia"?

Now all of us who have been fighting illegal immigration understand the nasty remarks we have all endured while fighting to end illegal immigration, being called racist and xenophobes by the OBL crowd and by illegal aliens (mainly from Mexico) themselves.

So knowing this, I found it surprising that they want to cry foul while they are here illegally and Americans want them to learn English and assimilate, in the very least, yet in their own country, they think nothing of treating some of their own fellow countrymen/women as inferior, scorned and subjected to ridicule for clinging to their own unique language and culture, instead of assimilating into the general Mexican culture and speaking Spanish!!!

This fine example of their own double standards within the illegal alien population from Mexico, is another good reason we need to keep fighting to have our borders secured, and laws enforced, thus making them self-deport, or by governmental "assistance".

Knowledge is power!!!!