TUDOR HOUSES INFLUENCES ON TRUMP’S ANTI-LATINO RACIST NEO COLONIAL POPULIST NARRATIVE

A stroll through old photos of the Anglo/Euro-fusion lookalike wannabe colonial architecture neighborhoods in Queens, New York provides a clue as to why people like Donald Trump, Stephen Miller and Rudolph Giuliani have engaged in an open war of offensive descriptions of those of us encased in the Latino ethno-identity cuttural and historical framework, including having the contemporary mestizo population as the largest group of inhabitants, as opposed to the USA or Canada, so far. The look alike American Tudor houses and their front gardens were transformed into a more complex set of images: colors of walls, window frames, types of doors and all kinds of ads offering diverse and specialized services in Chinese, Creole, Colombian, Dominican Spanish, replacing the wannabe English gentry neighborhood image and atmosphere created by immigrants from Hungary, Germany, Poland, Ireland, who had made it into the USA middle classes; transferred their moving-up into a “higher class”, a new view of the self, projecting his/her achievement in a copy of what had been envied or admired back home. The gray walls and lace curtains gone; supplanted by a new architectural neo-colonial populist narrative.