Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Francis Yanez Page 41 VM: They have a lot of migrant workers. FY: I guess. Yeah, a lot of migrant workers told me they're from Texas. There's really a lot of them. VM: What about these---these newer migrations? Well, ah---for example, Puerto Ricans besides Mexico, or Mexicans from Mexico. Did they have any trouble integrating with in the ah---Mexicans that live right here right now? Or getting along with them? FY: I don't think so. I don't, I think they get along pretty good. Maybe it's due to the ah---to the language, you know. Maybe that's why they're getting along better with the with the Mexicans. Because that was the trouble with the---with the new Mexicans. They didn't speak English, and you couldn't understand their Spanish, you know, and maybe that was their bickering there, too. I don't know. But the Texas is---is easier to---he's close to the border, you know, and he has more of their ways of the----of the border than the others. VM: What ways does the Mexicans have that were so much different ' from other Mexicans, other than their speech? FY: Well, other than their speech, their biggest problem w--was, and still is, that they won't identify themselves with the Mexicans, you know. In other words, they're, if you call them a Mexican, it's an insult. It's the biggest insult would be just as well them a poor little four letter word, than