For example, there is no indigenous word for the United States. Modern urban words such as park, car, bank, etc are borrowed from Spanish. In Oaxaca, Alvaro constructed their adobe house with his own hands. No plumbing and no electricity. Alvaro at times reminisces about the slow pace of life in Oaxaca.
People work only a few days a week, enough to provide food from their fields.
No one has money because there are no jobs. But life is simple and money is only needed for medical emergencies and clothing. Here in the United States there is money, but you must work much harder, he says. Like many other Mexican laborers, Alvaro first came to the US alone. He came about fifteen years ago as a farm worker in Oregon.