Spanish → English transcript

The Mexican police spent thousands of dollars to eliminate this subculture from the streets—we're talking about the Cholombians.

To understand this subculture, we first have to talk about the cholos, an identity and resistance movement of Chicanos in the United States.

A style marked by oversized clothing and neighborhood codes.

In the early 2000s in Monterrey, there was a clash between Mexican cholos and Colombian cumbia

and this new aesthetic was born with a unique style characterized by Hawaiian or plaid shirts buttoned only at the top.

Ice cream caps, giant hand-woven scapulars with their names.

Uff, baby, their hair, their hair was everything. I mean, they had giant sideburns gelled to their faces, shaved heads in weird shapes, I mean, it was a statement, baby, a statement.

All of this, love, with Colombian cumbia. I mean, in case you didn't know, I'm Colombian, but this wasn't normal cumbia, it was cumbia rebajada, meaning it had a movement, a more hypnotic rhythm.

In 2010, Mexican authorities went after the Cholombianos and cut off their sideburns, they cut their hair.

Oh, I would have so married a Cholombiano.

And well, little by little, the culture faded away and they disappeared from the streets, but never from history.

Subtitles by the Amara.org community

End of transcript · 213 words · machine translated

Original transcript (Spanish)

La policía mexicana gastó miles de dólares para eliminar esta sucultura de la calle, hablamos de los cholombianos. Para entender esta sucultura primero tenemos que hablar de los cholos, un movimiento de identidad y resistencia de los chicanos en Estados Unidos. Estilo marcado por ropa gigante y códigos de barrio. A principios de los 2000 en Monterrey existe un choque entre los cholos mexicanos y la cumbia colombiana y nace esta nueva estética con una propuesta única caracterizada por camisas hawaianas o de cuadros abrochadas solo del primer botón.

Gorras de helado, escapularios gigantes tejidos a manos con sus nombres. Uff, bebé, su cabello, su cabello era todo, o sea, tenían unas patillas gigantes pegadas con gel a la cara, unos rapados así en formas raras, o sea, propuesta bebé, propuesta. Todo esto, amor, con la cumbia colombiana, o sea, si no lo saben, yo soy colombiana, pero esta no era una cumbia normal, era una cumbia rebajada, o sea, que tenía un movimiento, un ritmo como más hipnótico. En el 2010 las autoridades mexicanas perseguían a los cholombianos y les cortaban las patillas, les cortaban el pelo. Ay, yo me hubiera casado tanto con un cholombiano.

Y bueno, poco a poco la cultura se fue apagando y las desaparecieron de la calle, pero nunca de la historia. Subtítulos realizados por la comunidad de Amara.org

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