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Latino Life: Living in 'Gringolandia'
NBC ^ | 8/10/2014

Posted on 08/11/2014 5:04:20 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

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To: Tzimisce

“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”.


21 posted on 08/11/2014 6:00:47 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Altura Ct.

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


22 posted on 08/11/2014 6:16:07 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Lurker

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.


23 posted on 08/11/2014 6:24:29 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Tzimisce

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


24 posted on 08/11/2014 6:27:02 PM PDT by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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To: Altura Ct.

Assimilate, you idiots!


25 posted on 08/11/2014 6:29:28 PM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: Altura Ct.

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


26 posted on 08/11/2014 6:55:54 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Altura Ct.

Gringostan would be more appropriate.


27 posted on 08/11/2014 7:16:17 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Altura Ct.
“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.

28 posted on 08/12/2014 5:29:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: Altura Ct.; GeronL
“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.

29 posted on 08/12/2014 5:30:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: Tzimisce
. 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.

30 posted on 08/12/2014 5:32:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: Altura Ct.
“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?

31 posted on 08/12/2014 5:34:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: starvosan
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.

32 posted on 08/12/2014 5:37:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
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!

33 posted on 08/12/2014 5:38:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: a fool in paradise

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”.


34 posted on 08/12/2014 7:55:48 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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