//Their attitude reveals an obstinate, almost fanatical will-to-be, but this will affirms nothing specific expect their determination - it is an ambiguous one, as we will see - not to be like those around them. The pachuco does not want to become a Mexican again; at the same time he does not want to blend into the life of North America. His whole being is sheer negative impulse, a tangle of contradictions, an enigma. Even his very name is enigmatic: pachuco, a word of uncertain derivation, saying nothing and saying everything... The purpose of this grotesque dandyism and anarchic behavior is not much to point out the injustice and incapacity of a society that has failed to assimilate him as it is to demonstrate his personal will to remain different. Many Me