In Mexico, There Are No Indians

<p>Julieta Barrionuevo, an Argentine tango instructor living in Mexico City, found out the hard way the limits of behaving poorly.</p> <p>After her public tirade against city workers that were cutting down a tree on the street where she lived went viral, it was clear that she grossly misunderstood Mexican sensibilities.<a href="https://medium.com/@nevaer1/in-mexico-there-are-no-indians-2cbd8e05c73e#_ftn1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">[1]</a>&nbsp;Barrionuevo dared to utter the one word that, in Mexico, cannot be spoken: &ldquo;Indian.&rdquo; She is heard yelling, &ldquo;<em>Horrible india</em>&rdquo; at a bystander filming the spectacle: &ldquo;Horrible Indian.&rdquo;</p> <p><em>Indio</em>&nbsp;in Mexico is what&nbsp;<em>nigger</em>&nbsp;is in the United States: an inexcusable slur.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@nevaer1/in-mexico-there-are-no-indians-2cbd8e05c73e"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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