If you're half-Mexican and:
· Half-African: Afrijoles
· Half-Black: Black beans, Blaxican, Choco-Taco, Negrexican
· Half-Arab: Garbanzo beaner, America's worst nightmare
· Half-Canadian: Canexican
· Half-Chinese: Chexican, Chinacan, Chinkano, Combination Plate, Mexinese, rice-n-beans
· Half-Cornish: Cornish tortilla
· Half-Costa Rican: Mextica ("tico" is a nickname for Costa Ricans)
· Half-Croatian: Cro-Mex
· Half-Czech: Czecano, Czex-Mex, Czexican, Mexislovakian
· Half-Filipino: Chilipino, Mexipino
· Half-Flemish: Fletino
· Half-French: Frenchican
· Half-Gabacho: Amerilanga (combination of American and chilanga, nickname for someone from Mexico City), Caucano, Gabaxicano, Güerexican, Mixican, Whispanic, white bean
· Half-German: Beanerschnitzel, Germexican, wiener beaner
· Half-Greek: Greexican, Mexi-eek (I never said all of the nicknames were clever)
· Half-Guatemalan: Chapano (chapín is a nickname for Guatemalans)
· Half-Hawaiian: Pineapple salsa
· Half-Honky: Chichonky
· Half-Indian (the India kind): Curry tamale
· Half-Indian (the Indian kind): Navajole
· Half-Irish: Leprecano, green bean, McBeaner
· Half-Italian: Mexican pizza, Spic-talian
· Half-Japanese: Japanic, Mexanese
· Half-Jewish: Jalapeño bagel, Jumex (also the name of a delicious Mexican fruit-nectar drink), Kahlua-jewa, kosher burrito, Mexi-Jew
· Half-Korean: Korexican
· Half-Pakistani: Mexistani
· Half-Panamanian: Panamex
· Half-Polish: Polexican, Polexiqui (this particular gal was Yaqui Indian on her Mexican side; she also called herself a Mexipolaqui)
· Half-Portuguese: Pork-and-beans
· Half-Redneck: Rednexican, Redback, Wetneck
· Half-Russian: Brown Russian
· Half-Salvadoran: Salvexican
· Half-Samoan: Samexican
· Half-Scotch: McRiguez
· Half-Turk: Turxican
Other Latinos also joined the game. A half-Spanish, half-American called himself "spam"; a Cuban Jew goes by Jewban, while a Peruvian from Minnesota describes herself as a Minneruvian. Meanwhile, a Puerto Rican from New York insisted that dominicanos were half-Dominican, half-anus (ano is "anus" in Spanish). And a half-Indian, half-Jew wrote in at the last moment with his moniker: Gandhistein. But the final, wisest word goes to a full-blooded gabacho:
How about an American, like all of us mutts?
Don't see your nickname? E-mail me below, and I'll compile a full list for my as-yet-unfinished Web page!