The big clues is their Spanish. I can tell fairly quickly if El Sal, Guat Cuban or Mexican when talk to them. Even different dialects in Mexico. EL Sals and Guats typically have more Indian features than Mexicans.


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Got family that live in rural areas of NYS, I think I see more actual Mexican Mexicans up there than I do around here, 'cept on construction sites.


How do you tell the difference?


Night and day alot of the time. Mexicans are more likely to bear the stamp of hard living whereas American Mexicans tend to run as soft as the rest of us, around here fluency in Spanish tends to be a giveaway too.

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Why are you frequenting construction sites?


This is the Austin/San Antonio Corridor, construction sites are frequenting us, and their Mexicans shop at convenience stores for coffee and grease in the morning, and beer in brown paper sacks in the evening.

Actually I have heard that a lot of their Mexicans are actually Guatemalans.


That's interesting.

Are you able to tell a Guatemalan from a Mexican? Or do they look similar?
I can tell them apart for the most part by their facial features, Panamanians, Guatemalans, and Salvadorans tend to look more Indian, doesn't always hold true but just a guideline. I do have one Panamanian cousin my uncle adopted when he was stationed there after Vietnam, Roman is an Arkansas hillbilly now.