User:Leoortiz~enwiki/Neoxica

Neoxica (Neo-hee-ka) can be defined as a Mexican immigrant who arrived in the United States after the 1986 amnesty and who is earning an honest living in the land of opportunities, while making an effort to achieve personal success shared with hes family, in observance of the laws and customs of this great country, and at the same time maintaining an understanding and a deep appreciation of the idiosyncrasies of hes native land.

The term “Neoxica” can be employed when the following criteria is met:

1. Arrived in the United States after the 1986 amnesty. 2. Born in Mexico after 1950, a year in which primary and secondary education was declared free and compulsory. 3. Hardworking, honest people while observing the laws of the United States of America. Naturalised citizens of the U.S.A., legal residents, or await a law that would grant immigrant resident status.

A Neoxica is the new Mexican or new Mexica and is neither a Pachuco, a Cholo, not a Chicano because those terms are applicable to other generations in different times and lived under different circumstances.

In the same way that the term Pachuco is rendered passé when the term Cholo emerges, due to the reform of some members from original crews and gangs, the transformation of gangster in groups, the term Cholo is currently perceived to belong to a subculture in the extinction of the term Chicano which parallels the term Pachuco which in turn parallels the term Cholo currently contemplating its obsolescence at the dawn of the arrival of the term Neoxica.

The term Neoxica describes a Mexican who forms part of a wave of new immigrants, estimated in millions, whose native origins are as many as the number of states of their Mexican Republic. Soon after arriving to the United States, the Neoxica discovers that any Mexican can become a Mexican with hope. Ingenious and hardworking is the primary characteristic of the New Mexican. A Neoxica arrives to the United States having attended at least elementary school, and in abundance cases, middle school, high school, or may include having completed a university career. A Neoxica is not violent individual, and does not define an identity through vestments of any particular type, yet can be identified by his/her hard work and tenacity. A Neoxica sets the interest of the family as the highest priority, above personal interests, as the most important unit and whose effort is oriented towards the education and well-being of the next generation. A Neoxica is a Mexican whose evolution in the United States has demonstrated a worth beyond his/her capacity to learn and confront new alternatives. A Neoxica can be an American citizen, resident alien, or undocumented, nevertheless, aside his/her immigrant status, he/she has faith in his/her future and that of the United States.

--Leoortiz (talk) 19:00, 6 June 2009 (UTC)