joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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There is nothing exclusionary about this thread. You have every right to post here as you would in any other thread on the board.AVclub said:
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Boogie9IGN
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AVclub said:
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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Oh shit. :lolBoogie9IGN said:
SolarPowered
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...we've got people from south america, central america, north america, maybe canada and even parts of Europe posting at the moment. Most of the people who've participated could probably identify with being white, black or just about anything.AVclub said:
Don't try to make into something racial when we've got over ten ethnicities and people who you would consider a part of a different "race" posting, and having a good time.
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I just remembered something. It seems like a large part of latin America has been at odds with the US over it's views of race as of late. I remember studies where people from Brazil would identify other Brazilians with up to 127 different phrases(or colors I guess). It's a pretty common phenomenon throughout Latin America and it's at odds with the US where they try to lock us down to one color and one ethnicity.
Ah...American imperialism at work.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Make it then dude, I wouldn't have a problem with it, at least not the same problem you seem to have with this topic.AVclub said:
The problem you'll run into is that similarities end right at skin color. Here we've been able to relate to each other through our similar cultures as has already been discussed. Among "WhiteGAF" Italians would not be the same as Irish folk, or Russian folk, or fourth generation Americans, etc.
Whatever tho, we were bound to run into a trouble maker at some point.
Boogie9IGN
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SimleuqiR said:
Yep yep, people get confused and scared when I turn out to be fluent in Spanish and Cuban. Hell, my mom is super white and blonde and my sister makes a ghost look dark :lol
Along with don't like:
His face alone makes me want to explode with rage
You know why I take issue with this, because most threads in the OT qualify as " the white thread." It's not to say I don't identify with lots of threads here, but for example: I started a thread about punishing kids. While it was divisive, the majority of the people who agreed wih spanking were latin or black. We grow up getting chancletas thrown in our direction. Imagine if every thread was "Platano-GAF, what's your favorite way to cook them?" Or seeing the "post your pics" thread and it's flooded with just us brown folks. Well that's how it is to us who were raised in a different culture, so let us have this little thing without your Fair and Balanced opinions. And BTW you would have to combine all of the Italian, Russian, Irish, Polish etc. - age threads to even get a fraction that Hispanics represent in the USAVclub said:
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That guy looks just like that Justin Bieber kid with the big teeth.Boogie9IGN said:Yep yep, people get confused and scared when I turn out to be fluent in Spanish and Cuban. Hell, my mom is super white and blonde and my sister makes a ghost look dark :lol
Along with don't like:
His face alone makes me want to explode with rage
:lol
Fake edit:
You know the one thing that I love about hispanic food like the one a few posts above?
It's the fact that there is so much summer food to choose from. Our weather demands that we have refreshing food that falls lightly on the stomach. There is nothing better than some tacos, a nice salad or grilled meat/vegetables paired with refreshing tropical fruits.
I want to go get something from the Mexican restaurant downstairs now.
Funky Papa
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You are such a chode. For starters, I am a pasty white European Hispanic (read: Spanish) and we have people from all kinds of shades in this thread. Everyone is allowed to come here and discuss whatever they please, and barring certain jokes the thread is being kept in English so gaffots from all places can talk about music, sangria or whathefuckever.AVclub said:
Goddamn. Don't you have a thread to make about Obama sending the Navy Seals to patrol the parks?
On a lighter note...
:lol
dgenx
Made an agreement with another GAF member, refused to honor it because he was broke, but then had no problem continuing to buy video games.
Zeke said:
yes, its for take out the evil or something, theory says that the egg takes all the evil, in Peru curanderos also rub a guinea pig on you :/
Zeke said:
My grandmother tells a story about a baby that had the evil eye on them. They took it to some kind of witch doctor or something, and the baby had an egg rolled over them, then they cracked the egg and it was hardboiled (the evil was drawn inside and it cooked it or something).
Boogie9IGN
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Has anyone mentioned Walter Mercado?!
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Are the guinea pigs still alive?dgenx said:
That would be kind of hilarious if so. Very creepy if they are dead though.
I've never seen the curandero thing in DR.
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I wonder how old most posters in here are. I can vaguely remember some of the people you guys are mentioning, but they seem a bit before my time.
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I REMEMBER WHO THAT GUY IS NOW. He was kind of creepy.:lol
Boogie9IGN
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Did anyone else watch ¿Qué Pasa, USA? I loved that show's reruns when I was growing up in Miami. It was a sitcom about a Cuban family adjusting to life in Miami's Little Havana. First bilingual sitcom ever I think
here is some mariachi music for this thread:
Yolanda le Rio: ¡Ay mamá, los que te dije!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAVgmmVaUhE
Pelea de Gallos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALX12mNyGbk
(try to listen to this one and NOT tap your feet. Not possible)
Estela nunez: La Malaguena
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ05BcqgLU
These remind me of my childhood, and my parents. They are old school, but still fun.
Yolanda le Rio: ¡Ay mamá, los que te dije!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAVgmmVaUhE
Pelea de Gallos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALX12mNyGbk
(try to listen to this one and NOT tap your feet. Not possible)
Estela nunez: La Malaguena
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ05BcqgLU
These remind me of my childhood, and my parents. They are old school, but still fun.
Greetings from Black-Gaf. Just wanted to say that the last few pages have given me a boner, made me hungry, and got quite a few laughs. In other words, awesome thread guys.
I really should learn to speak Spanish again. I was pretty good at it before I quit taking classes in the 11th grade. /rambling
I really should learn to speak Spanish again. I was pretty good at it before I quit taking classes in the 11th grade. /rambling
SolarPowered
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I've never seen it before, but this clip is hilarious.Boogie9IGN said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG9ZlKKyWjA
Daughter: Have you ever engaged in prostitution?
Old lady: Yeeeesss, very good, I like dis very much!
:lol :lol :lol
22 here.Zeke said:
There was a lot of tension between black kids and hispanic kids at my school so most of the black kids always took French. It's a real shame that stuff like that gets in the way of learning something.ReiGun said:
Boogie9IGN
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SolarPowered said:
:lol:lol oh god, I'm buying the DVD set next paycheck no matter what
EDIT: From the official site
ON THE STREET
Spanish
English
guarejaus - a warehouse
Don Jon Silva - Long John Silver's restaurant
Bosguagon - the Volkswagon Beetle
Pisa Ho - Pizza Hut
el autopar - the local auto parts shop
Guendis - Wendy's fast-food restaurant
Cayo Hueso - Key West
Guáchinton - Washington, D.C.
rentar - to rent property
Mallamibish - Miami Beach
íncontas - Income Tax
Guindos - Computer operating system
Maquintoch - Computer operating system
jonrón - a homerun
estraique - a strike
fombo - a fumble
kique - placekicker
joqui - hockey
Klin Iswoo - Clint Eastwood
Yon Wayn - John Wayne
Yack Nicelson - Jack Nicholson
Elbi Presli - Elvis Presley
Jonfri Bogar - Humphrey Bogart
captmcblack
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As a Haitian-American, and a resident of NYC (and currently with a Puerto Rican girlfriend!), it's amazing how much of this thread is relevant to me, and has been for my whole life :lol
Props to you all in HispaniGAF. To all my homies in Dominican GAF, I'm sorry I'm Haitian - please don't hate me
Props to you all in HispaniGAF. To all my homies in Dominican GAF, I'm sorry I'm Haitian - please don't hate me
i dont hate you! i had haitian friends in DR!captmcblack said:As a Haitian-American, and a resident of NYC (and currently with a Puerto Rican girlfriend!), it's amazing how much of this thread is relevant to me, and has been for my whole life :lol
Props to you all in HispaniGAF. To all my homies in Dominican GAF, I'm sorry I'm Haitian - please don't hate me
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
I remember being told to STFU when Mercado was on. :|
:lol
Dude had such a cult following.
:lol
Dude had such a cult following.
This has nothing to do with skin color.
If you like a particular genre of music or tv, a style of food, or even a religion, I see no problem in creating threads for those things. It just seems wrong to setup an official thread for a race and start using a different language in it. Rather than sharing culture with others, you are intentionally excluding people from the discussion by having jokes at their expense in a language you think they can't understand (as with the T-shirt picture).
I've seen threads here about different countries, regions, and cultures before. We've had Muslim-GAF and Euro-GAF and that's fine because it's understood that different races of people can participate. However, "HispaniGaf" is about being Hispanic. It reinforces the point by putting a language not everyone knows right in the subject.
If this was a thread about GAFers in Mexico or Spain or Cuba, it would be different. Because anyone can live in those areas and doesn't have to be born Hispanic.
But that isn't the case. I look at this thread and it feels like a private club where people who aren't born into a certain race are outsiders. On a public discussion forum, that sends the wrong message, in my opinion.
If you like a particular genre of music or tv, a style of food, or even a religion, I see no problem in creating threads for those things. It just seems wrong to setup an official thread for a race and start using a different language in it. Rather than sharing culture with others, you are intentionally excluding people from the discussion by having jokes at their expense in a language you think they can't understand (as with the T-shirt picture).
I've seen threads here about different countries, regions, and cultures before. We've had Muslim-GAF and Euro-GAF and that's fine because it's understood that different races of people can participate. However, "HispaniGaf" is about being Hispanic. It reinforces the point by putting a language not everyone knows right in the subject.
If this was a thread about GAFers in Mexico or Spain or Cuba, it would be different. Because anyone can live in those areas and doesn't have to be born Hispanic.
But that isn't the case. I look at this thread and it feels like a private club where people who aren't born into a certain race are outsiders. On a public discussion forum, that sends the wrong message, in my opinion.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Oddly enough, that was the way Hispanic culture began as we know it. I think you may be on to something...levious said:
AVclub said:
I think is completely harmless.
Straight people might feel like outsiders in the gay thread too, that doesn't mean the thread is excluding people, anyone is welcome to talk about the topic.
Spanish should not be encouraged and should be kept to a minimum though. But a little spanish doesn't harm at all, threre's plenty of threads with something in the title that only insiders can understand, even if it's in english.
friskykillface
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:lol Was just about to post this exact same thing, but what happened to me, I used to have random nightmares when I was a little kid, that my mom told my grandma and she rubbed a egg around me. :lol it actually worked and had less nightmaresZeke said:
Also checking in for HispaniGaf
I'm from Peru but living in Boston
I want to go back and visit Peru , I've only been then once, when I was 7. It's been too long since I've been there.
also since people have mentioned it already, I drink Ginger ale when I'm sick and it cures me up
That's unfortunate. For me, there just weren't enough Hispanic kids or even people in my grade school years for that to be an issue. Now that I think about it, that kinda sucked because I didn't get any real exposure to the culture outside of textbooks. I think I had my first, confirmed, hispanic classmate in 9th grade. Like, I know there are Hispanic people in Baltimore, but for some reason I was never in class with them. :/SolarPowered said:There was a lot of tension between black kids and hispanic kids at my school so most of the black kids always took French. It's a real shame that stuff like that gets in the way of learning something.
On a happier note: Seriously, some of the food in this thread looks delicious. Hook a brother up with some recipies. :lol
That's sounds like my mom. :lol I swear I've never seen that woman ask how to make anything.yencid said:Recipes, what are those? Hispanics just know how to make em, we are born with it!
the best way to learn is to learn from someone that makes it in person. Go find yourself some hispaniFriends
Alright then, time to hit up these Hispanic women on campus. My stomach demands it! :lol
captmcblack
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yencid said:i dont hate you! i had haitian friends in DR!
Tell that to some of your women, man. DR's got some fire, but my experience with DR women has been pretty lulzy so far. Then again, all of the Dominican chicks I've tried to talk to so far have been in/from the Bronx, so maybe I'm just too Brooklyn to appeal. :lol
Anyway, going through this thread I'm amazed at how much of the food I eat/drink still to this day. I wake up with a cup of Bustelo every goddamn morning, no joke.
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