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Attitude toward missionaries
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He has a point here - there is safety in numbers. No one in the NY/NJ area would discriminate against Italians, there are too many of them/us. But when my daughter was in Oklahoma visiting her Dominican cousin for a week, a cashier in the DSW [Designer Shoe Warehouse] wanted to know "what is that?" when she looked at Mary's credit card (husband is Italian American). When she said "Italian" the cashier frowned disapprovingly and said "We don't have any of THOSE around here". She'd certainly frown at a Spanish surname the same way. (My niece is married to an American with a Waspy surname, she was very surprised at the exchange).
"More seriously Pedro, I'm an atheist, my wife is a catholic christian. By mutual agreement we don't talk to our two smallest children (6, 2 yrs.) about religion so I got really mad when one day my son came back from school saying there're certain things you should not do because "papa Dios"
Last time I heard that it was followed by "Papa' Trujillo"
Last time I heard that it was followed by "Papa' Trujillo"
Maybe also a good idea to post by example? How posters post can be very revealing. Telling people whom you know little about to 'grow up, get a job' and such just because you & they disagree, indicates a level of combativeness which most new expats find doesn't go down too well in the DR with the locals.
And as for your requests for donations, yes of course people are watching how you respond here (good post 200 Vacara). I was very positively & empathically disposed towards you when you first posted the theft problem, I'm sure lots of people were. But for me it decreases with every pugilistic post. Sorry if you find this unsupportive, but I'm known for telling it as I see it.
Listen Lambada,
Take a look at everybody talking about my school when they have never been to one of my classes.
So me what you are doing to help the Dominican Children.
You seen to have your little gang of DR1 Posters that spend their day writting trash about anything anyone has to say. You guys are like vultures waiting on someone to post something so you can atack them.
Take a look at everybody talking about my school when they have never been to one of my classes.
So me what you are doing to help the Dominican Children.
You seen to have your little gang of DR1 Posters that spend their day writting trash about anything anyone has to say. You guys are like vultures waiting on someone to post something so you can atack them.
Calle 16 De Agusto Casa 3 Segundo Nivel Jarabacoa. This is a very busy area of Jarabacoa. We have friends that live close to your school. I find it hard to believe that nobody witnessed the robbery.
Lambada is one of the most reasonable people on the board - I however am not! Have a go at me if you like, but you look a little silly going after Lambada.
You brought your school into the discussion so I feel OK talking about it.
By the way, is it a business or a charity?
If we were vultures we would say something like,"Wow, Prof, you are teaching kids American English and you can't spell 'writting' or 'atack'!!??"
But we are not vultures so we don't write things like that :bunny:
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And we wouldn't want to through you off your game.
Reminds me of a camping trip I took to the beach on the western coast of Costa Rica.The undertow was horrific so really we could not go swimming. And what little water there was from the shower came out lime green so it was not conducive to long showers. One morning, I unzipped my tent, and there, lined up along the tatami mat that I had spread out to prevent some of the sand from getting into the tent, were six vultures, lined up neatly, three to a side.
Very true that within one country, depending on the city/area, and how many people 'like you' live in the area, one can experience varying degrees of discrimantion.
My friend who recently moved from very multicultural Toronto to a smaller less diverse city in Canada, is in shock by the amount of racism she is now experiencing.
Thats why I didnt think El Profs accounts of discrimination were lies.
La?
Didn't he say he went to grade school in LA? population over 9 million, largest hispanic population in the US. Now over 45% Hispanic. Then he moved to Texas.
Not Kansas. That might have been credible.
Didn't he say he went to grade school in LA? population over 9 million, largest hispanic population in the US. Now over 45% Hispanic. Then he moved to Texas.
Not Kansas. That might have been credible.
Reminds me of the time a black Canadian woman didn't like the price my mom was charging her in a store and screamed that she was being charged more because she was black, then proceeded to call my mother a dirty Jew. Finally the store owner, a Black Canadian, came out of the back office, informed her that he set the prices in his store and would she kindly leave. Racism is everywhere, sometimes more blatant that others, but I've found out that in small towns it is usually reaction in any outsiders- has little to do with colour. However I'm not living your friends life.
Didnt he say he started school at age 6 in LA and then moved to Texas. He is not talking about LA in 2009 but probably 40 or more years ago. Totally different time and experience compared to now! He also mentioned his school in Texas was beside a KKK headquarter.
If that was the case, his accounts of experiencing discrimination sound pretty credible to me.
When my boyfriend was going to school in North Carolina a little more than 10 years ago, he told me he went to his roommates house for Thanksgiving and he saw a burnt cross mark on his front lawn. Asked what that was and his friend just shrugged it off matter of factly that the KKK burned a cross on his lawn. They were one of the only black families in the neighbourhood.
Coming from Toronto he was shocked by the level of overt racism he experienced and saw in parts of the US in the 1990s.
Well you are a white male and my friend is a young African woman so I am sure a different life experience at times.
When I first went to BC I was jokingly asking a local friend, who is white where are all the black people. He said there are not too many there but there is a high Asian population. We talked about racism and he said surprisingly even though there are alot of Asians there is still alot of racism directed at that group.
I went on a youth tour of Nova Scotia a few years ago. The tour guide was a white guy and told us a story that he went to a local restaurant in a small town there and the waitress took orders from everyone in the group 'expcept' the 2 Japanese girls. When he reminded the waitress she forgot to take their order, she said she would not serve 'their kind'.
Furious he asked to speak to the owner and the owner said he cant really force her to do what she doesnt want to. They all obviously left the restaurant and went somewhere else.
Later the owner saw that he was bringing tours twice a week to the area, realized the amount of money he was loosing and asked him bring his group to his restaurant. Of course he said no because he supported his racist waitress. He said oh but I fired her she was stealing money. The tour guide said you should have fired her the day I complained to you, too late now.
Yup racism is everywhere.
What racist remark did he make?
I didnt see anything racist in his posts.
But I guess you are right when you say 'whenever you go looking for it, you'll usually find it.'
Just to run with the vulture analogy/theme for a moment....
I thought vultures generally eat stuff that they might happen across that has already expired.
They are not really known for attacking healthy, living stuff.
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