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HighHeat
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 Posted: 10/08/04 - 11:25 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: |
Must be pretty rare that someone can translate from Spanish to Redneck  |
"¿qué canal es NASCAR?"
"¿dónde puedo comprar más grits?"
"¿usted ha introducido a mi hermana / novia?"
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elkid
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 11:27 Post subject:
| HighHeat wrote: | "¿qué canal es NASCAR?"
"¿dónde puedo comprar más grits?"
"¿usted ha introducido a mi hermana / novia?" |
Hot damn, that's funny!
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sonnylax
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 12:19 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | They're all white, really white, painfully white, and carry with them the prejudices of their parents and grandparents. |
Painfully white?
Nice choice of words there keltic. 
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HighHeat
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 12:26 Post subject:
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Painfully white?
Nice choice of words there keltic. |
Yeah!
It's frighteningly white, which leads to painfully red if you stay in the sun too long.
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keltic63
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 12:29 Post subject:
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Painfully white?
Nice choice of words there keltic. |
you're right, as always sonny. there's certainly no reason to enhance our lives with the experiences of other cultures. let's just keep this white community pure.
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sonnylax
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 12:33 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | you're right, as always sonny. there's certainly no reason to enhance our lives with the experiences of other cultures. let's just keep this white community pure. |
I didn't suggest that. I just don't think there is any reason to apologize for being white.
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jrjo
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 12:34 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | you're right, as always sonny. there's certainly no reason to enhance our lives with the experiences of other cultures. let's just keep this white community pure. |
Not to spin Sonny's post, but being a 'white guy' myself that isn't in a cultural mecca, being cast in the role of automatically prejudiced and unlearned about the rest of the world does get overdone 
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keltic63
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 12:47 Post subject:
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Not to spin Sonny's post, but being a 'white guy' myself that isn't in a cultural mecca, being cast in the role of automatically prejudiced and unlearned about the rest of the world does get overdone |
in this community, in which I live and work, I find that the community is segregated and prejudiced. It would benefit this community to share in the experiences of other cultures.
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airehead
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 13:04 Post subject:
I married into a very, very midwest family. They did not understand that I could have different views and different holiday celebrations.
My parents really tried hard to "Americanize" us (for which I am extremely grateful) but you always carry a bit of your heritage with you.
I had some problems in school--which I kept to myself--mainly in trying to be American and hispanic at the same time. (This was about 20-25 years ago). Holidays were my biggest culture shock.
I remember in the 3rd grade being put into remedial reading classes during reading time (having to leave the rest of the class was humiliating) just because my parents were "foreigners". Never mind the fact that I was ahead of all my peers--and was reading Jr High level books at the time. (I was even told that it was because my parents were foreigners and I was being "assessed"  )
Now the two blend beautifully.
Also, I love that my son is growing up military--he is friends with kids from Korea, Guam, Native Alaskans, and on and on.
The potlucks we have at our squadron rock--it is a hodgepodge of every culture in the unit and all the places we've been.
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Posted: 10/08/04 - 13:19 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | te'pe' ala' bunghole. |
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