If you put the woman on the car's part, it's the worst thing for a woman
You don't feel like safe
Kind of? Yes, I think so
Yeah it's true
Yes, yes we are. In relationships I think we are possessive and like, what are you doing?
Why are you talking with him?
Screaming at each other, getting mad, we're like so passionate about our feelings
We like drama for everything like -- You like drama. I don't like drama. I just avoid it
Dating with people from here it's like - why are you so dramatic?
Can you name any telenovelas that you've watched?
Maria Mercedes, Maria del Barrio, Marimar, any Maria
We have these teenager telenovelas and I used to hide from my mom to watch them, because I wasn't allowed
Me too. I know. Because everyone was -- they're so popular. Yeah
So she watches all of them
Yeah. No. For me - I don't even want to go to United States
Well, we're here so...We're in Canada so..
Yeah we grow with the American Dream and you are successful
if you go there and you're gonna do a lot of money to send to your family
It's like a kinda dream like you know, pass the border and the coyote
Obviously like the better life and everyone wants to go to the North
Before it was only the US, like everyone thought about the US, the only option
now, well we're in Canada or people can go to Europe or something like that
It was never my dream to come here or to United States. We're like very passionate with our culture
We never wanna leave our home, I guess. I wanna cry now
I knew they were going to ask that
Yes, yes, that's super true
Yeah.. yes. Most of them
We grew up that way as well. Oh the guy has to do this and all the heavy stuff, like the heavy duty at home
Women are machistas too
The mom's like - no, no, no. If you're a guy, your woman needs to give you the food, make all the cleaning and everything
I remember my mom even when I was younger saying like - oh, you're not allowed to come back home after 1AM right
and my brother can stay outside all day long or he can bring his girlfriend inside the house all the hours that he wants but for me
it was always like very restrictive. It was always like - what are these people gonna think if you do that?
I'm always trying to be a guy
The guys there, they have more opportunities. Even for a drive a car, if you're a girl it's like - no, you can't do it
Well I think the economical classes in Mexico are pretty defined so unfortunately once you reach out the middle class
and below that, the stereotypes are very hardcore defined
Women are like - I need to be pretty, we want to be married, cause it's successful to be a woman if you get married at 25
My brother's generation and our generation I think it's getting better. I see with my brother that he's a dad now
and he's like so hands-on with my nephew, and I don't remember my dad doing any of that with us
But it's changing. Thanks God it's changing, so..little by little, step by step, we're gonna get there right?
I mean I think they're more romantic in a way? Like compared to Canadians for example, I feel sometimes are colder
Now all of the things change, but they give flowers, a gift, pay the dinner.. open the door
Pay the dinner! That's very important
Like inviting her anywhere for tacos, for good food, you just give your 100% to the woman
Well you even have a heart on your shirt, so it must be true, right? It's true
Even though you're like 30 something, they will do a thing about the asking and everything
They're a bit more traditional, and romantic and kinda cheesy there
They invite you to the cinema, go for a torta or a tamale. Well, in my case right?
Sometimes, some men, just to ask you to be their girlfriend, they will bring mariachis, and flowers and balloons.. like just to be their girlfriend
The thing that's very important is when you walk on the street, you need to walk on the part of the cars
because if you put the woman on the cars part, it's the worst thing for a woman. You don't feel like, safe
It's very cheesy but it's definitely something I see on Instagram, stuff from people my age, and I'm like - maybe the balloons
and everything was a bit much, but I would like the question.
That one hurts my feelings. Yeah. Everytime
I kinda hate that when people in the environment with all men, like - oh, you're Mexican. Do you have some? Do you have some?
I'm like - come on, I don't have right now. Later on, yeah
It is something funny because when people say "Oh you're Mexican. I watch Narcos"
And then when Narcos Mexico started, everyone was talking to me about it. I'm like "You're telling me like they're my cousins or something!" Like - I don't know!
We're not Narcos, we're not drug dealers, we're hardworking people
We gotta erase that from our culture, cause we're not all drug dealers
Unfortunately, it's terrible the crime that we have to go through there, but it doesn't define our culture
I think there are so many other things that define us: like our music, our food, our archeology and our history. And that's what people should be focusing on
I knew that one was gonna be asked!
I love spicy food, yeah. Everything has to have any chile or spices. Candies. We have candies. Spicy candies.
All they know for candy is like chocolates, and stuff like that, and for us candy is spicy
We like beer with spice,
We like food with spice
We like fruit with spice
We really like the spicy things
Everything has to have some type of salsa
Chips, nuts, cucumbers
One that I used to eat all the time was Valentina sauce, and that's the one that
made my stomach go insane, cause I would just put it on everything right?
People think like - all the Mexican food is spicy, but not. We put the salsas on the side,
and the food, it's mild
We have like green salsa or red salsa
We have different levels of spice. We have Habanero. And not Tabasco! Not Tabasco!
If you're Mexican why you are tall? You like Middle Eastern or something
Yes we have tall people in Mexico. We can be light skinned, dark skinned. We have all kinds of people in Mexico
not just the tiny ones with the sombrero
Drug dealer part, like, I just hate it. Overwhelmed with that, I'm fed up, we're not Narcos, we don't do drugs
We don't even do drugs, most of the population back home
People think that touristy areas are all we have. I'm from a city three hours away from Cancun and all that area
and nobody knows about it. A lot of people think we only have Cancun in Mayan Riviera and Cabo
"I love Mexico! I love Cancun!"
"Cancun is like the real Mexico!"
"And the food in that resort!"
That's not Mexico. That's the States in Mexico.
If you go with the real people in Mexico, we are really friendly, you can come to our place
the mom is gonna prepare a good food for you
Every time you go you can tell that people are always giving you the hand, helping you
feeding you, giving you drinks
it's always a party in Mexico. Just forget about the drug dealers and all the political stuff. Mexico is the best, for me it's the best