# Mexicans control your damn kids while in public! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209 "2009-06-18T19:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/101 "2009-06-18T23:54:18Z")
> [@jackofsevens](#): > > I’m taking it. No, you’re still claiming not to be racist. ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/102 "2009-06-19T00:00:42Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I’ve seen it both ways. Growing up in New Mexico I saw Mexican kids who had little to no discipline from an authority figure, but I also saw Mexican parents who would whip their kids if they acted like that. Mexicans or New Mexicans? As with the OP, were they Tejanos or Mexicans? ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/103 "2009-06-19T00:23:02Z")
This would have made more sense at the beginning of the thread, but I just got here… [I Can’t Stand it When Jews Talk During Movies](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34094) ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/104 "2009-06-19T00:49:30Z")
I’m won’t claim my prejudices one way or another. I dislike pretty much everybody regardless of appearance. It’s a lot easier that way. So I’m not going to be very helpful here but I have friends (Mexicans) who work as waitstaff at various restaurants. One common complaint expressed by each of them was that they hated waiting on Mexican Nationals (tourists who are Mexican citizens). They complained that they (the waiters) were rudely addressed by parents who let their children run wild, who complained about nearly everything and never tipped. Mexico has an unofficial class system where service people are treated poorly by those of better wealth. The tourists don’t bother to control their children because they don’t want to show “respect” to the waitstaff as equals. Keep in mind that there were plenty of Mexican American customers who frequented the same restaurants that the waiters were happy to have as customers. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/105 "2009-06-19T00:57:11Z")
> [@jackofsevens](#): > > I’m not a troll. This is a serious rant. Of course. If you were trolling you’d have said they were fat Mexicans who left shitty tips. I guess school’s out already. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/106 "2009-06-19T00:57:48Z")
How did the OP know they were Mexican? Even if they appear Latino and speak Spanish, there are many countries they could have come from which would make them pretty indistinguishable from a Mexican, especially from the OP’s non-informed POV. If you’re gonna be a racist, at least do it right. ---
**Author:** ![Sacrilegium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Sacrilegium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sacrilegium)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/107 "2009-06-19T01:06:11Z")
> [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](#): > > Come on guys. Yet another sentence whose meaning changes greatly with the absence of the intended comma. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/108 "2009-06-19T01:07:52Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > How did the OP know they were Mexican? Even if they appear Latino and speak Spanish, there are many countries they could have come from which would make them pretty indistinguishable from a Mexican, especially from the OP’s non-informed POV. > > If you’re gonna be a racist, at least do it right. Well Texas _does_ border Mexico, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that he’s been in contact with more Mexicans than other people of latin descent. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/109 "2009-06-19T01:11:10Z")
> [@jackofsevens](#): > > So now at SDMB I’ll be permanently labeled a racist. Well, gee, maybe that’s because you ARE a racist? ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/110 "2009-06-19T01:18:38Z")
…Hey, and why do black people always go to McDonalds!? I’m black and I don’t freaking know. People are people. ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/111 "2009-06-19T01:44:43Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Well Texas _does_ border Mexico, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that he’s been in contact with more Mexicans than other people of latin descent. There are also large populations of Tejanos, native Texans of Mexican decent as well. I doubt that anything besides skin tone and possibly language colored his opinion of their origin. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/112 "2009-06-19T01:44:51Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I’m won’t claim my prejudices one way or another. I dislike pretty much everybody regardless of appearance. It’s a lot easier that way. > > So I’m not going to be very helpful here but I have friends (Mexicans) who work as waitstaff at various restaurants. > > One common complaint expressed by each of them was that they hated waiting on Mexican Nationals (tourists who are Mexican citizens). > > They complained that they (the waiters) were rudely addressed by parents who let their children run wild, who complained about nearly everything and never tipped. > > Mexico has an unofficial class system where service people are treated poorly by those of better wealth. The tourists don’t bother to control their children because they don’t want to show “respect” to the waitstaff as equals. > > Keep in mind that there were plenty of Mexican American customers who frequented the same restaurants that the waiters were happy to have as customers. I’m afraid I have to call bullshit on this one. Nobody goes to Kansas City, Missouri as a tourist. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/113 "2009-06-19T01:50:23Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > CMC fnord! > Assuming you are trying to quote ‘Animal Mother’ in _Full Metal Jacket_ of course (and if you are ya got the line wrong it’s “[All fucking](http://corky.net/scripts/FullMetalJacket.html) [niggers must](http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=full_metal_jacket) [fucking hang.](http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Full-Metal-Jacket.html)”). Not consciously - I just went for the most offensive thing that came to mind and fit in a few words. All similarities with mothers, real, animal or fictional, is entirely coincidental :). ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/114 "2009-06-19T01:54:45Z")
Who controls the plastic pink flamingos in the yards of their trailers? Huh? That’s a much more serious problem than Mexican children running amok. I mean, _plastic pink flamingos_, man! Jeez! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/115 "2009-06-19T02:00:59Z")
Actually, the only people who REALLY suck are from Cleveland. (As one from Pittsburgh, I’m required to believe that) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/116 "2009-06-19T02:05:59Z")
Don’t blame the parents. If you try to discipline “Mexican” children, their eyes start glowing and you end up doing whatever they want. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/117 "2009-06-19T02:21:29Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Actually, the only people who REALLY suck are from Cleveland. (As one from Pittsburgh, I’m required to believe that) Have you ever been to New Jersey? It was built on all 9 of Dante’s circles of Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/118 "2009-06-19T02:36:51Z")
[Ahem.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=517367) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/119 "2009-06-19T02:41:37Z")
I don’t mean to sound racist, but in my experience Mexican children seem to be somewhat better behaved than other children I see/hear in public places. And that goes for Texas as well. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/120 "2009-06-19T02:46:23Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > [Ahem.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=517367) Not to hijack the thread, but I will admit that my time spent living in NJ was unpleasant as best. That had a lot to do with my job, but while that may have been a factor, another part of it was the populace. No kiddin’ I told my few relatives in NJ that I would NEVER return there unless one of them died or was in the hospital. I mean it, too. If I never set foot in NJ again I’ll consider it good luck. It may not be fair or rational, but NJ to me is just a miserable place filled with miserable people. I really NEVER EVER want to go there again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209.md?page=7)