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Oh, I was wondering why I thought cameo, it’s because you wrote cameo. But that does remind me of another tip – no cameos of hot chicks in your pics if you’re looking to pick up chicks. It freaks girls out.
i’m quite serious DH. i guess i just associate cool with having class, not being all up in other peoples businesses, and acting one’s age.. which i think it what the UES embodies.. the other neighborhoods i listed do not. parents on the UES do not bring their screaming babies into bars, demand chicken nuggets at posh restaurants, and other low brow things a lot of brooklyn parents seem to do.
*rob*
“DH, thought you would say “hispanic via injection doesnt make him hispanic””
no – i’m not hung up on him not being hispanic. it’s strictly the dude part.
Brazil, France and Italy, in my experience, rank very high on the list. But the DR has them all beat. Even the hotel maids are good-looking. It’s uncanny.
I’m pretty sure the East Indians in Guyana are the ancestors of indentured servants who were bought there in colonial times.
“Who is old enough to remember when whites in NYC used to call Puerto Ricans “Spanish People”?”
That’s me benson, but it wasn;t only shites, it was everybody.
You had only a few groups back then.
You were Spanish if you were Hispanic (and btw that term is still used on the street here except for Mexicans).
You were white, or you were colored, shortly thereafter Black.
If you were Asian you were Chinese (also still used in the hood).
Or you were Indian if you were from South Asia.
Gem, I think the East Indians came to Guyana and Trinidad as indentured servants.
“Can anyone explain to me why the people of Guyana are east india (from India) spanish, native indian and black?”
The British needed labor is the short of it.
DH, thought you would say “hispanic via injection doesnt make him hispanic”
In the late 1800 and early 1900s, when the wave of Southern European immigration from Italy (time of Eastern European wave too) Italian immigrants got on boats, almost arbitrarily taking them to the Americas. Many came to the US, all along the eastern seaboard, but other family members might have gone at the same time to the whole eastern strip of south america. I worked with a woman in Brazil who was so familiar — Sarita — her grandmother was Italian, she might have well lived in Brooklyn. A young Italian American in my office has family in Argentina and Brazil. The woman in Brazil punctuated her speech with Madonna (Madonn’). Brazilians can’t be Hispanics? They speak Portuguese because they were colonized by the next door neighbors of the Spanish. ARgentina is full of people of Italian descent — they speak Spanish with an Italian accent.
I was just trying to say about this Census category as a racial category that there is something very arbitrary about it. I guess I am Hispanic if my parents or grandparents or great grandparents are from a Spanish speaking country. Racially, I could be white, black or an indigenous person (related to Asians racially).
Denton, did your wife like Cervantes?