Code-X (60)
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April 22, 2015
Call this code: Self-Reflexive Mexican.
Definition: Mexican symbolism and cues — beyond sombreros, maracas, piñatas. Playful, self-aware, affectionately ironic.
Notes on this code: Ethnicity depicted as something that is invented, or at least evolved and elaborated upon, as much as it is discovered.
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