So yeah too much gas this morning and the wife suggests its because of the chile beans she made for our frito pie. But she of corse is not not gassey and says its cause she's mexican. So I ask how I can become Mexican. She makes a few suggestions.
1.Become Catholic for a while and then stop. 2.Start to believe in El Cucui and the chupacabra. 3.Get an old beat up chevy, put a mediocre stereo in it believing that its the best stereo in the city, and blast Los Panchos. 4.Pretend I don't understand english when its convenient. 5.Develop a taste for Barbacoa.
Any other suggestions?
Tool and Chief
Posts: 571 | Location: Albuquerque | Registered: July 29, 2003
Yawn...Is this one of those "because I'm married to a 'Mexican' I can make racially-overtoned jokes about them and it's ok" type of deals? Come on, Skreeech, you know better than this.
Well Skreech, I've been married to a person of Mexican decent(is that pc enough) for 17 years.....I can't even eat at mexican food resteraunts any more. Their food is just too bland. I recomend tons of green chile...not at once, but over time you will be able to eat the hottest of the hot with the rest of them......that stuff flies right thru the system....keeps me thin. I still don't have a P-cup, nor an acordian(sp), and have yet to develop a taste for the music. But "la familia"(my in-laws) would do anything for me or my kids....we're just the blancos at the table. The cultural differences are eventually overcome, if not, at least understood.
The truth of it is people are people, regardless of the color of thier skin.
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Originally posted by mc: Yawn...Is this one of those "because I'm married to a 'Mexican' I can make racially-overtoned jokes about them and it's ok" type of deals? Come on, Skreeech, you know better than this.
Yes, it is boring on this posting bored, isn't it?
The thing about us "mexicans" is--at least as far as my family is concerned--we don't really care about racial issues. I think the more uptight people are about race (which is a ridiculous term to begin with), the more it becomes an issue. The fact of the matter is, stereotypes exist because they're true, to an extent. I don't understand why some are so overly sensitive about it. It's all tongue-in-cheek.
Anyway, the stuff that Jon mentioned up there are pretty much true. Seriously, meet some of my cousins in El Paso. I'd like to add one to the list. Go to as many of your cousins' weddings as you can and dance La Marcha.
Oh yeah, by the way Dave...did you know spanish before you got married or is it something that has been integrated throughout? My uncle married a Mormon girl from Utah and I'm amazed at how quickly she learned spanish! I think it mostly had to do with being able to communicate with my grandparents.
I don't know, Gio, but when my wife's grandma told her she shouldn't marry me because I'm part Apache and Apaches get mad and beat their wives, it bugged me. And I'm generally a pretty laid back type. I just don't find racial slurs, or stereotyping, or whatever, even tongue in cheek, all that funny.
To each his own, I guess. Maybe its a cultural thing? Or maybe its one of those, "we need to make fun of ourselves before anyone else does" kind of defense mechanisms? But honestly, I don't get offended by the stereotypes of my culture. I'm sorry to hear that about your grandma-in-law. My great-grandma-in-law was prejudiced against hispanics, but you know, I just shrug it off because I figure she was a product of her time. Of course that doesn't make it right, but it's just not a big deal to me.
my grandmother was a spanish speaking jew with red hair and green eyes that hated mexicans who married a native american dirt farmer born in the northern territory...i think thats pretty funny in of itself...
and im a short balding asshole with a chip on my shoulder with an ugly wife...
seriously...im of hispanic descent and married to an african american...and thats pretty funny too...if you cant joke about your culture and your partners culture...you're way uptight...lighten up...
smile and laugh at your own farts...
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We're not talking about laughing at your own culture. I can laugh at my own heritage, but when others make stupid comments about it, that's when I don't find it so funny, that's all.
Come on MC I just want to eat frito pie and not have to worry about methane. Perhaps there's a pill you can take that makes you Mexican. Or maybe I could just take some gas-X.
Tool and Chief
Posts: 571 | Location: Albuquerque | Registered: July 29, 2003
Originally posted by Skreech: Come on MC I just want to eat frito pie and not have to worry about methane. Perhaps there's a pill you can take that makes you Mexican. Or maybe I could just take some gas-X.
face it, there is no hope. you male caulkasian headed fast to middle age no way out. take the duck's advice, try more hot sauce.
Hell, I still don't know spanish....I know enough to order a burger, a beer, and find the bathroom. How much more do I need?
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I say never talk about race with the grandparents. I got one grandma who doesn't like anyone who's not Italian (and there's not that many Italians out here) and my Puerto Rican grandma has some of the most cringe-worthy racial views I've ever heard. Really unusual stuff, too.
New Yorkers have a different thing going on. Back East. You can be angry at the Irish, and Dominicans, at Germans, at Polish people, with serious venom. A lot of Italians don't like the Puerto Ricans (or so I'm given to understand) etc., etc. And everyone hates street musicians.
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Originally posted by Gnostic Dave: Hell, I still don't know spanish....I know enough to order a burger, a beer, and find the bathroom. How much more do I need?
Donde esta la mota? Cuanto cuesto?
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