While discussing El Pachuco Olmos commented that, “there were these street wise people that really were… understood and really controlled the streets with their presence… they used to use pride, self-esteem, self-respect as a shield in front of them…” To me the figure of El Pachuco represents the pride in being of Mexican descent as well as the alter ego that lives within each every person who has the yearn to stay true to themselves despite what others’ opinion is about who they should be. El Pachuco became a figurative figure to the world of the retaliation that existed within the people who felt deceived by the social world injustice that kept targeting people who were different; this was directed especially towards the injustice that occurred
