# Belly-rubbing Mexicans **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 1, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-rubbing-mexicans/431906 "2008-01-01T18:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-rubbing-mexicans/431906/29 "2012-07-21T01:56:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > :dubious: > > I really want to know. If one person does it, maybe he’s scratching an itch. But when you see the sight often enough, and the rubbing is more of an idle instead of purposeful motion, and if it’s observed only among a particular demographic (in this case, Hispanic males approaching middle age and dressed in a more-or-less rural fashion), then there’s probably a reason for it. You know, if one Mexican, just one Mexican does it they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him. And if two Mexicans, two Mexicans do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them. And three Mexicans do it, three, can you imagine, three Mexicans walking in pulling up their tee-shirts and rubbing their bellies and walking out. They may think it’s an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty Mexicans a day, I said fifty Mexicans a day walking in pulling up their tee-shirts and rubbing their bellies and walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-rubbing-mexicans/431906)._