Hey pachuco meaning
It's not just a Hispanic thing.ĭuring WWII the War Board outlawed the manufacture of "Zoot Suits" in these United States, for among other things, to make more wool available for uniforms. BTW.back in the day, zoot-suits were common to different racial groups.African-Americans are credited with inventing the zoot-suit. The Pachuco style of dress is taken from the zootsuiters - the zoot-suit, duck-tail hair, suspenders, long watch chain, skinny, pointed shoes and the flat - wide brimmed hat. Paz's description might not have anything to do in and of it's self with why El Paso is nicknamed "El Chuco" but it points us to a possibility. Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of Solitude London 1967 pp 5-6 Their attitude reveals an obstinate, almost fanatical will-to-be, but this will affirms nothing specific except their determination. But the pachucos do not attempt to vindicate their race or the nationality of their forebears. They are instinctive rebels, and North American racism has vented its wrath on them more than once.
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The pachucos are youths, for the most part of Mexican origin, who form gangs in southern cities they can be identified by their language and behaviour as well as by the clothing they affect. This spiritual condition or lack of a spirit, has given birth to a type known as the pachuco. "What distinguishes them, I think, is their furtive, restless air: they act like persons who are wearing disguises, who are afraid of a stranger's look because it could strip them and leave them stark naked. In the Mexican and Mexican/American community El Paso is known as El Chuco, and Mexican people tend to call their neighborhoods nicknames names like barrios de los Indios, neighborhood of the Indians or La Calavera "the Skull", barrio del Diablo, neighborhood of the Devil, you'll find neighborhoods with names like this in El Paso, so from the pachuco's came the word El Chuco meaning El Paso's nickname in the modern day Chicano culture. Then again with a name like El Chuco, it will attract stereotypes and the negative objectors, then if someone else from another culture would have called El Paso something like the Little Apple or something like that it would be ok I guess, there are people that will actually rag on this one word, El Chuco.
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I recall not very long ago, hardly anyone had any clue El Paso was called El Chuco, the word was pretty dormant, sounds pretty "MACHO" it is, yet I once brought up the subject in the old El Paso Times forum and now several people have adopted the name as their own, not bad.