Half Chapin

[cosmic_icarus]

Chapin is a term used to denote people from Guatemala. It's pretty funny, I don't know where it comes from. Anyway, yeah, I think people that are half Guatemalan are cool. Actually, most Guatemalans I know (born in the USA) are half. It's funny because I know a lot of Mexicans that are like 5th generation Mexican. But not Guatemalans. I'm a rare exception, even in the Guatemalan community. All of my parents' friends and acquaintences from Guatemala think it's weird that both my parents are Guatemalan and they didn't meet in Guatemala. Both my parents immigrated single to the USA and they found each other a year later. And it was in the bay area, one of the major destinations for Guatemalan immigrants! All my other aunts and uncles that came here all married non-Guatemalans (Japanese, Nigerian, White Americans, Mexican, El Salvadoran, Philipino, Mexican-Philipino American, Scottish, African American). Most first generation Guatemalans I've met are half (Mexican, El Salvadoran, Cambodian, Assyrian, Portugese American, White American, German American, Jewish American, Cuban, Puerto Rican [those girls are SLUTS btw], English, etc.) and I think it's really cool. I've even met a Brazilian that is half Guatemalan and a Canadian. Guatemalan immigration is pretty recent actually. The boom of the Guatemalan immigration wave came in the late 1980's. My parents immigrated to the US in 1980, right before the huge immigration wave hit. The war ravaged Guatemala yet very few Guatemalans left. The first wave immigrated to Europe and North America equally. Poor Guatemalans jumped the border in Belize and Mexico. But like most Latin American immigrants, they returned after a couple of years, especially those in Europe and Mexico. It's weird. But the USA quickly became the major destination for Guatemalan (as well as all Central American) immigrants. But in comparison to Mexicans and Cubans and Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans are practically non-existent in the USA. There are a registered 600,000 Guatemalans in the USA, and including non-registered, about 800,000 while some sources say up to 1 million.





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