Most folks in the public stay away even from saying yes or no to a political question .... and Virginie was no different .... in the beginning
After we had discussed business (which has to do with shipping school books to the Philippines) we chatted about education and .... we were off and running
Virginie is a (her words) French Puerto Rican ....
I had asked her opinion of Latino and Hispanic .... her citation is, they're interchangeable
Another topic was black Americans and African Americans ...
Being in shipping AND Miami ...
African Americans are extremely polite, mostly educated and well spoken
She identified African Americans as people living here and working that really ARE from Africa ....
black Americans OTOH are very rude, ignorant, very bad language habits and have a victim mentality
One last factoid (BTW .. I turned her on to FR ... she'll be here someday) ... when as a little girl in Puerto Rico, when you turned on the TV in the morning ... it took time for the tubes to warm up ...
When the TV came "on line", there was an American flag waving, the National anthem and the pledge of Allegience ...
followed by the Puerto Rican flag, THEIR anthem and finally a Catholic Bishop or Cardinal came on and invoked a blessing
This ... every morning ... before the TV programming started
Thank you, Virginie for such an education.
Christ on a crutch, I went to a ballgame in PR a few years ago and had to listen to BOTH ANTHEMS sung by a local girl.
The PR anthem sucks and is a minimum twice if not three times as long as ours.
Good game though, and it was sponsored by the local pineapple company,(Pina Coladas), all in all a good time.