Latino Life: Living in 'Gringolandia'

NBC ^ | 8/10/2014

[haroldeveryman]

“The Mexicans mocked Americans by calling them “Green Coats””

A theory. The one I heard was that English settlers migrating in Venezuela or some place like that sang a song called “Green Grow the Rushes”. To the locals it sounded like “Gringo”.

[beethovenfan]

Hey, here’s an idea: MOVE BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM!

[Monorprise]

Indeed it seemed everything about her article was a search for racism in others around here while her life seemed itself about a search for kin like herself.

[Sicvee]

I thought it was because the American soldiers sang the song “Green Grow The Lilacs”. When legends disagree.

[pbmaltzman]

Assimilate, you idiots!

[ExCTCitizen]

The person couldn’t find a soccer game? Try the state sport of ice hockey or ice fishing instead.w

[353FMG]

Gringostan would be more appropriate.

[a fool in paradise]

“A lot of people asked me about my curly hair and even asked to touch it,” she said.

This is the meme that black people have tried trotting out lately.

I've never once seen it happen but when the white french girls went to the predominantly black visited reggae club, they would routinely find black men grabbing and stroking their hair as they walked by.

[a fool in paradise]

“It wasn’t that I experienced overt racism in Athens,” explained Zelaya, a community college teacher, but more subtle "micro aggressive moments." Some examples, said Zelaya, was when she would be told, 'oh you are so articulate, you speak English so well,' she said. “What they are implying is that only white people are articulate," said Zelaya.

For a community college teacher, you have a nice command of the English language.

[a fool in paradise]

. She now lives in "lily-white" Arlington, Massachusetts

Would NBC be willing to saw "in 'coal black' Detroit, Michigan"?

Micro Aggression is a two way street. Bigots in the media won't fess up.

[a fool in paradise]

“Oh I've got stories--when I was a cheerleader in high school some of the girls would ask if all Puerto Rican girls were as flexible as I am,” she said, laughing at some of the comments.

"Russian girls" are flexible. It comes from training at a young age. Nothing "racist" or "genetic" about the question.

Why so sensitive?

[a fool in paradise]

When I hear how other minorities get treated, like the Palestinians in Gaza, the Coptic Christians in Egypt, or the Yazidis in Iraq, I come across an article like this and I realize it’s happening to the Latinos here too. [/sarcasm]

She's experiencing "First World Problems". They aren't just the bitching and moaning of white people.

Even our "poor" have it better off (with large digital televisions, cable, cellphones, and cartons of cigarettes) than the poor do in other nations.

[a fool in paradise]

In fact, if I had the money I’d go down to the Texas border, pick me up a bus load of Mexicans and drop them off on Martha’s Vineyard.

It takes a lot of gardeners to keep up those estates!

[Tzimisce]

The media won’t call them “illegal” because that’ll hurt the feelings of people who are in this country illegally.

And the people who want the law enforced are “racist, extremist teabaggers”.