Auntie Charo's Soapbox

And if we listened close enough and did some good research of what kind of a life we lived during the times the Spanish were here, go into what we ate, how we were educated and even input the religion that they infused onto the natives...
We are so much more than those naked people that were put down by the earlier settlers....we seem to only want to show the slingstones and those really stupid looking shell necklaces our men(yes, they even use them in the legislature)....even when we do our protests to whatever it is the US is doing that we don't like, we protest as savages. I still can't forget that awful activist that pulled at his crotch as a woman attendee to a forum at the Hyatt Hotel. I was so ashamed to have admitted that I was a native. I don't ever want anyone to think that I am a savage, a dirty one at that because most of them smell!
We should embrace those two Spanish gentlemen and the agency that sent them to Guam. We should go back to wearing mistizas when we greet the tourists...Yesssss! We wore mistizas, even after 1902 when the Americans settled here. We have much to offer....we 'almost' European at one time....let's show the good parts of that era....as well as the pre-western contact times....and let's also play on the fact that we are lucky to a free people, now living under the US flag.
Let's celebrate that we are different...believe it or not....tourists like this kinda stuff.
We're so diverse that you can hear the same local person say 'hafa adai' when he sees you and 'Adios' when you leave....some even say, 'esta qui' or if you're in the 'bro' group....'esta later'...