Posted on 10/15/2022 7:08:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Oh, Ive lived in the US 40 years, and retired to Spain in 2020. That non-white thing never bothered me. Maybe because I have one of those odd Basque names, and my accent is unplaceable, people used to assume I was Italian! :)
No complaints, Ive had a good and lucky life.
You are a dear, dear person and being assumed to be Italian is not so bad. I have loved it all my life, also.
Isn’t it wonderful to feel as though life was great and not a constant problem, as I do?
Regards to you again.
Also, one can never discount genetics for how humans behave, but that goes beyond “race” and is determined by ancestry.
Am I correct in assuming that “Basque” has a Muslim connotation?
There are so many variations of people and their heritage.
The Muslims in Michagan have joined our American parents in the scandals in the American schools.
The funny thing is that the native language in Valencia isnt Spanish-Castillian, but Valencian, which is a dialect of Catalan (though its probable that a Valencian would say Catalan is a dialect of Valencian. Its Spain. Thats how it goes).
The Valencians dont make as much of an issue out of it as the Catalans do, though. Over there Catalan is required in scools, signs and official everything is bilingual Spanish-Catalan. Rather like in Canada. Not so much in Valencia.
Catalan/Valencian are quite different from Spanish btw. Until you get very used to it they are not really mutually intelligible.
The biggest common differences between Spanish in Spain and Latin America generally is that the “colonial” language was filtered through Andalucia, as Sevilla was the principal port of access and point of governance to all the Americas. And Andalucian (yet another Spanish accent/dialect/language) itself can be quite peculiar.
Latin America has a common “television” dialect, which is what you hear from Telemundo, etc. Also most international media and entertainment.
I rather like the Mexican accent. The “educated” version is “easy listening” and pleasant.
Interview with Natalia Lafourcade (from Veracruz)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xciXjV_a06I
Americans deserve to be slapped for stupidity.
The Basques are the weirdest people in Europe, with obscure but ancient origins and a language unrelated to any other anywhere. We even have peculiar physical/genetic characteristics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basques
As for Muslims, the Basques (and the Galicians/Asturians/Catalans. Everyone in the north says that) were reputed to be the last holdouts against the Muslims, and whence the reconquista began. This is not entirely true, but mostly so. All the Castillian noble houses are descended from Basque ancestors or so was their boast. And that is also true, if tenuous.
Therefore, in medieval times, the Crown of Castile traditionally conceded the status of “hidalguia”, that is, being a hidalgo, or member of the gentry, to all Basques, however humble, due to their supposed purity of blood, having never been Muslim. It was however only valid within the Basque country. But of course everyone obtained a coat of arms, and you will find all sorts of them carved over farmhouse doorways, stone posts on sheep pens, crypts, et cetera.
The Left is afraid, very afraid, of the Hispanic drift to the Republican party.
🤪😆😀😝👍
Yet we're supposed to forget that Spain brought 5 to 5.5 million slaves to America, contrasted with England bringing 300K to 400K slaves to America. Somehow Hispanics are free from that white guilt.
Hear the same from S. American friends.
Of course, that's because they are indeed white.
I am thinking of a scripture, Isaiah 5:20: 20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. Black Racism is not even acknowledged, and in fact is even encouraged, by dishonest WHITE politicians, as a counter ‘equity’ justification. In other words, not raise everyone to a higher, enlightened level, but to lower everyone to their basest instincts of animal survival. That is the plan, Stan. So, Black Racism is more dangerous because it is a hidden poison that is affecting good people, exactly what Isaiah was talking about.
Leave it to Liberals to screw up a nationality. Hispanics isn’t a race, unless Italians, Greeks and Irish is...
“coworkers were often of Italian, Portuguese and even German ancestry.”
I worked with Brazilians who are descended from Confederates who fled there after the civil war. They have a big celebration every year and wear their Confederate uniforms.
Sounds like a white envy speech covered with hate.
People who refer to Mexican Spanish as “low class” generally don’t know what they are saying. Educated Mexicans speak quite clearly and well, as for that matter do educated people across Latin America. What happens is that if you aren’t a native speaker small differences in regional speech and even more with uneducated speech are a problem, but a problem that passes with exposure.
The same problem happens in reverse with foreigners in the US when they are exposed to, say, “countrified” American English. Or regional British accents.
Actually, I have trouble sometimes with some regional British accents…
Yep, that would be Americana in São Paulo state. The Brazilian singer Rita Lee is the most famous descendant.
We are neither worthy of our country nor God’s love but hear we are. 😂
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