In El Salvador people still say Mongoles though. (Though only if mocking their appearance.)
And sometimes Southeast Asians, sometimes not.

In El Salvador there are literally no blacks, no people from the Middle East, and almost no Chinese (and the only way to meet some of them is actually going to look for them in some gathering places, but normally you're unlikely to find them walk by you or anything.)

We don't get to the extreme of the Slovaks however.

It is not extreme. It's just mostly old people in rural areas that get afraid in the same manner when a fast motorbike drives by.

Except a fast motorbike is dangerous, and the average black person isn't.

Also, c'mon, nobody reponded to my megillah of a post on politics? That probably took me fifteen whole minutes to write. Aw.

If you saw an alien packing laser guns wouldn't you be a bit freaked at first? I know, I know, aliens with laser guns are not like a black man with no guns walking down the street, but tell that to the old folks. Hell, my grandfather would get a heart attack if he saw an alien. At least he heard of black people.

Heh, sorry, I just didn't feel like writing a lengthy post (or bigger than it was) to show to what extent racism against Mexicans is still prevalent, especially in the Southern United States. I also didn't want anyone to think that I was referring solely to some other historical event, such as the Mexican–American War, so I just threw in that one article. I know that act was comitted by a single person, but it's definitely not the only one. If it's also of any help, Wiki also has a brief description on the matter, and a few other sources I found made mention of communities which were prominently anti-Mexican. Other fairly closely linked terms include anti-immigrants, anti-aliens, and hispanophobia.

C'mon, Zachary; you're a bright boy. You know that a fistful of anecdotes still doesn't add up to proof of systematic bias. All it establishes is that there's more than one individual prejudiced against Mexicans in the USA. (Not exactly a shocker in a nation of 306 million people and counting.) It doesn't really matter too much what biases particular individuals have unless they're backed up by societal institutions.

Not that I believe this isn't true in the case of Mexicans in the USA; I just don't believe you've demonstrated it with the evidence you've presented here. You certainly haven't made the case that it's worse than, say, institutional discrimination against Copts in Egypt or South Asians in Qatar (which is how this tangent came into being in the first place).

From my 38 years on the earth, I've come to the conclusion that people don't generally hate Mexicans, Blacks or Irish or Germans or whatever the token race of the decade is. When their pocketbooks get effected, or are perceived to be effected, or MIGHT get effected, whoever is in that group, whether they be Mexicans, Jews, Gays, Irish or Tuvaluans, they will be the target of anger and fear. If the US kicked out every Mexican tomorrow, and replaced them with Solomon Islanders, the average American would HATE the Solomon Islander, including the Mexican! Look at the history of the US concerning the Irish. Americans (including Blacks) were revolting against the "dirty Irish".
And if an Italian (a previous object of hatred) would "slum" it (by dating an Irish girl), they were disowned! Watch Gangs of New York for an example. The Italians moved up a notch because of the Irish. Unfortunately, Mexicans have taken the new spot. Maybe Tongans in 2010?

Worse than that. The Italian neighbourhood in my home town is called "The Hill" (formerly "Dago Hill", though not in my lifetime). For years the running joke was, "There's finally been a mixed marriage on the Hill! A Lombard married a Sicilian!"


Ah, yes--Scorsese's sole feature-length documentary.

Haha, that's totally true! Old Italians can be really racist, especially toward Mexicans now-a-days. (although, my great-grandma was TERRIFIED of black people).

My father got told off by his very Old World, Polish Catholic parents for bringing a Protestant friend to visit.

He got his revenge by dating a black girl later.

Unbelieveable that was only a few decades ago and now I'm volunteering at an immigrant services centre. Go multiculturalism.