Letters to the Editor

Now you might not even get tickets. Scalpers and Ticketmaster have taken part of the fun out of concerts. Plus, they make it even more painful by charging such high fees for their "service." Ticketmaster and scalpers can suck it! (Very mature response, I know.) Thanks for writing the article.

Kim Kumpf Aurora

In the original Latin: Gustavo's Arellano's October 19 column rings so true. There is certainly a lot of prejudice against Mexicans, no doubt about it, especially by the fair-skinned Hispanics and non-Hispanics of European ancestry. However, for every side of something, there is a flip side.

Consider this: I'm Italian-American and very aware and proud that Latin civilization came from Italy, yet when was the last time you saw, read or heard the term "Latin" or its masculine/feminine variations "Latino/Latina" apply to any culture other than Hispanic? We Italians rarely share in a cultural identity that came from our own land! And rarely do the other Latin-Europeans, such as French, Portuguese, Romanian.

I happen to feel very comfortable around most Hispanics. I've had many close friends who were Hispanic, including Mexican male friends and Cuban, Venezuelan, Colombian and Panamanian girlfriends, so I don't consider myself racist, but rather sort of a victim of reverse racism.

Just thought I'd put my perspective in, for what it's worth!

Mike Lombard

Denver

Riff and read:In the October 12 Ask a Mexican, Gustavo Arellano suggests that Henry Gómez of Florida is ripping him off by writing an Ask a Cuban-American column on his blog. C'mon, now. The Onion has given this concept its ironic pop-culture relevance by using it for surreal parodies for years. When I first saw Ask a Mexican, I was sure it was a riff on the Onionfeature. In fact, a half-dozen pages along in the same issue of Westword, an ad uses the same shtick.

Great column, but give credit where due!

Peter Aretin

Boulder

The treed amigos:In the October 5 Ask a Mexican, I wasn't too surprised to read the gentleman's view of what happened to him after getting into it with a Mexican man. But I tell ya, if I had to determine a man by his fighting skills, I'd say the man fought alone and the "boy" went to get his amigos.

Oh, by the way, the U.S. is in Iraq fighting for the rights of millions of illegal immigrants to enter this country daily, thank you very much.

Dawn Kennedy

Denver