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Because this isn't the first time someone asks me to make a thread here, so here it goes. Any other Mexicans are free to join. But what about me? I'm a 33 year old bitter Mexican goon,that hasn't left her country but only for vacations. I lived for 27 years in a small southern city known as Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco, also known as the Cradle of Mesoamerican civilization,home of the Olmec heads. Awesome Olmec head  A city I want to return to next year. Why? Because I currently live in the narco hellhole known as Tampico. That happened after I quit my job at a local newspaper and ran to Tamaulipas seeking for my dream of being a Graphic Designer. From where to where?  This is what narcos do:  So,do I have any interesting stories to tell? Maybe. Perhaps my everyday doings are interesting, considering that we are still a third world country...and people get killed...and beheaded, but we have delicious food!  You can ask anything from food, what's interesting in Tampico(nothing) and Tabasco,customs,folklore stories,general culture,language,etc,etc. Just don't go too personal, because there are certain things about myself I won't talk about and don't belong here. Still, important things you can ask about : -The great flooding of Villahermosa in 2007, I was witness of the depressive aftermath and have stories told by my best friends and family. -The ongoing gun shootings and why they suck. -Why Mexican food is superior. - Placeholder for more stuff-
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tortillas: does anyone use flour there? have you ever tried Tabasco sauce?  (i hate to admit but Cholula is way better)  Zsa Zsa Gabor posted:What impact does this have on your day-to-day life? Is it something that you've witnessed first hand? elephant in the room but yea I want to know this and your favorite recipe
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Zsa Zsa Gabor posted:What impact does this have on your day-to-day life? Is it something that you've witnessed first hand? Hell it does. When things get too bad, no one is on the streets past 8:00 pm, you'll see business closing, people hurrying up back home. Last time, the city was so silent that I could hear the dogs from a very far away neighborhood on the other side of the city, barking. During the day, you are always on alert mode, looking over your shoulder and just wanting to finish what you are doing and getting back home. There was one occasion where me and my friends made a Halloween party, those usually get packed and it's fun and booze, that one time only 5 people came, everyone else stayed home for the night. It's really stressful and depressing, hence a lot of people are abandoning their homes and moving to Texas or Mexico City. Thankfully every time there's a gun shooting I'm in my home, or about to leave for classes. But I have heard them, and I think that's enough. The biggest one I heard was a couple of blocks away from my house, at 3:00 am, and lasted nearly an hour; the soldiers had found a house filled with narcos and did their thing. Although there was that time I stepped on dried blood that I confused for mud smeared on the sidewalk. Favorite Mexican recipe is cochinita pibil. But only the one they make in Yucatan or anywhere in the South. Cochinita here in Tampico sucks. MOOBS! posted:tortillas: does anyone use flour there? Flour is more popular on North Mexico, but flour tortillas are more expensive so I can understand why in other states they are only used for quesadillas. And yes, I have tried Tabasco sauce and I don't like it. Too acid for me, I prefer: 
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Is there a general sense of "enough is enough?" If not, do you think this is something that is building? Why is there not more disgust and revulsion of narco ballads? I loving love Mexico and Mexicans. By and large I've found them to be a really sweet people with generally sunny dispositions and its such a bummer that Mexico is such a poo poo hole. Is it true that a lot of the large resorts are built and run by the cartels? Why does the government not give more of a poo poo about Chichen Itza? I was there a year and a half ago and it was great but I felt like the place wasn't being taken care of. Have you every been there during the solstice? Our guide mentioned that thousands of people converge on Chichen Itza to see the snake light up and that its a really magical experience. Maybe he was just trying to impress the gringos I dunno but that seems 
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visuvius posted:Is there a general sense of "enough is enough?" If not, do you think this is something that is building? Yes and no. There's a bunch of people tired and angry about the insecurity, but many things are keeping them from actually doing something. Fear and corruption. Fear because you know you'll eventually end hanging from a bridge or headless if you dare to say anything against the narcos. The goverment doesn't give a poo poo and they will make you see like a criminal and throw you to jail. Corruption, because it's easy to buy an insurgent group. Narcos have enough money to give up freely, so it wouldn't surprise me if they bought any of the auto-defensas. quote:Why is there not more disgust and revulsion of narco ballads?  For some reason people like that lovely music. El Komander is coming to Tampico in December, and I'm very sure that the tickets are already sold out.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSv-3RdVz6o Doing drugs is cool,kids. This is my first time seeing this, and seriously this video is bizarre, it looks like a regular pop/rap video but it has this weird polka music. quote:Is it true that a lot of the large resorts are built and run by the cartels? They own a poo poo ton of business. Resorts,night clubs,restaurants,etc,etc. And if they don't own them, the business still have to pay "piso". "Pagar piso" means that you have to give a percentage of your earnings to the narcos. Many business owners always decide to close everything and leave, usually because it's not just one cartel that comes asking for money. Sometimes they even force you to sell drugs. Quite hosed up. quote:Why does the government not give more of a poo poo about Chichen Itza? I was there a year and a half ago and it was great but I felt like the place wasn't being taken care of. Have you every been there during the solstice? Our guide mentioned that thousands of people converge on Chichen Itza to see the snake light up and that its a really magical experience. Maybe he was just trying to impress the gringos I dunno but that seems BUREAUCRACY. If you want a historical building,ruins or whatever to be taken care of, there's a lot of paper work to be done. Palenque is the one that seems to be taken care a lot lately. Years ago you would find graffiti in the ruins, I was surprised that last December everything was cleaned up. And YES. They even forbid people to climb the pyramids because they have been getting some damage. I went to Palenque during the solstice and you would see a lot of hippies dressed in white, prancing around and being all mystical. I haven't been to Chichen Itza, it's a bit far away from where I live and my mother lives.
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What would it be like to be a gay person in Mexico? I heard there are a heap of super rich people in Mexico who got rich without drugs, is social mobility a thing or is it basically impossible to go from poverty to upper class? What are the best paying jobs in Mexico, and what is a good yearly wage?
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Lord Windy posted:What would it be like to be a gay person in Mexico? I'm bisexual and I still can't freely say I am one. It seems the grade of tolerance depends in where you live, you can be gay but you can't say it freely. I know lesbian and gay classmates that have to stay in the closet even if their closer friends already know their preferences. I know others who have been "cured by Jesus", or people who have been kicked out of their families for coming out. For example, I have a relative that came out in the 70's. The whole family severed all communication with her, and to the date they pretend she doesn't exist. It's the same side of the family that has treated me passive aggressively bad just because I'm not white enough. But anyway, there's still violence and mockery against gay and transsexual people. Homophobia is bad in a society where the macho culture is still strong. quote:I heard there are a heap of super rich people in Mexico who got rich without drugs, is social mobility a thing or is it basically impossible to go from poverty to upper class? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. You have to go all the way corrupt if you want to go from zero to Beverly Hills rich. It's very rare that someone manages to gain a fortune through honest hard work, it does happen,I won't deny it but it's not something that will happen in a short span of time. quote:What are the best paying jobs in Mexico, and what is a good yearly wage? President of the United Mexican States. I'm not kidding, being a politician is the best paying job I know. Hence you see a lot of people getting in to politics, not because they have ~*dreams of changing the country*~ but because they know they will get enough money to live in luxury. But according to Forbes,in 2013 having a high position in a bank or a anything related to the pharmaceutical industry you can earn about 6,000 American dollars monthly. While Pedro who works in a convenience store might earn less than 150 American dollars monthly. Shimrra Jamaane posted:Have you seen any corpses strung up on a bridge? NO. I have seen the photos, but by some miracle of the vast universe I never get to see that live.
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Are there stereotypes about people from different Mexican states? Like in the USA, Californians are portrayed as laid-back, people from Alabama as country hicks, people from New York as rude, people from Texas as loving guns and oil money, people from Minnesota as weirdly nice, etc. e: Also, do you find it weird/offensive when US culture co-opts things like the 5th of May or the Day of the Dead? fantastic in plastic fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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Tao Jones posted:e: Also, do you find it weird/offensive when US culture co-opts things like the 5th of May or the Day of the Dead? In a similar vein, I'm not Mexican but I have a friend who is and he commented he thought it was sad that kids in Mexico were more about Halloween than the more traditional Day of the Dead. Is that the case at least where you are?
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My pozole recipe is to boil pork shoulder and hocks in salted water and then add a blended mix of dried new mexico chiles, oregano, cumin, onion, and garlic. What can I do to make it more authentic?
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Tao Jones posted:Are there stereotypes about people from different Mexican states? Like in the USA, Californians are portrayed as laid-back, people from Alabama as country hicks, people from New York as rude, people from Texas as loving guns and oil money, people from Minnesota as weirdly nice, etc. People from Oaxaca are short and talk fast. That's the stereotype I got from my family that hails from San Jeronimo, Michoacan.
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Tao Jones posted:Are there stereotypes about people from different Mexican states? Like in the USA, Californians are portrayed as laid-back, people from Alabama as country hicks, people from New York as rude, people from Texas as loving guns and oil money, people from Minnesota as weirdly nice, etc. Hell yeah. Let me describe a few I can remember. And I guess I'll post a few comedians playing with it so you get a more visual idea. People from North Mexico are always stereotyped as wearing cowboy hats, jeans,boots,etc. It's like the Mexican version of a Texan, with strong accents, like they are angry at you. They are the macho Mexican. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogd-3Y0vR0 People from the South and the coast are painted as short and very brown, poor,ignorant and lazy,wearing white shirts, those funny palm hats and sandals with a Caribbean accent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zidyaqYl-hQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsX-fErUh4w Indigenous natives are always portrayed as poor and ignorant as well, but in the extreme, nearly as naive children. Sometimes they are painted as "the noble savage". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Htb6PMO8c Then the chilango. Which is very confusing, because I always thought it was the people that lived and came from Mexico City, but people in Mexico City say is the people from other states that come to live to the city. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADWc0CUpRSE (This is more a "ñero" character, but you'll get the idea) There's also the classicist stereotypes. There's the naco, that would be like a a poor person from a poor background trying to be and act as rich, or simply a middle and low class Mexican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isIoawnoNDI The "fresas" which are daughters/sons of rich people. Insufferable people that act as they own the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ffJ5LY6qA quote:e: Also, do you find it weird/offensive when US culture co-opts things like the 5th of May or the Day of the Dead? I find it laughable and very ignorant. Not the day of the dead thingy, but the 5th of May...because it isn't a very important day, the Revolution and Independence day are way more important, and it's a day where we commemorate the defeating of the French army. There's nothing festive about it. About the Day of the Dead, the whole country got angry when we heard Disney wanted to buy the commercial rights for the name. Anatharon posted:In a similar vein, I'm not Mexican but I have a friend who is and he commented he thought it was sad that kids in Mexico were more about Halloween than the more traditional Day of the Dead. Is that the case at least where you are? Yes, lots of kids and grown ups prefer Halloween. As an adult, well, because there's booze,candies and you get to dress silly. So it's a fun night. Still, lots of schools, universities and even the goverment make local activities for the Day of the Dead, as a way to not lose the tradition. There's altar contests, people get to dress as Posada's catrinas,etc. My faculty did this last 31 of October. I missed it because I was left all alone in the office printing the diplomas for the winners  :  FIRST TIME posted:My pozole recipe is to boil pork shoulder and hocks in salted water and then add a blended mix of dried new mexico chiles, oregano, cumin, onion, and garlic. Don't wash your hands Let me see, I'm trying to remember my mother's recipe. I think she boils the pork with garlic,onion along with bay,oregano and/or marjoram. We know that as "hierbas de olor". The blended mix I think is correct. Once you serve your pozole you have to top it with a bit of oregano,lettuce,radish,chopped onions,and dried chile. Also, you have to eat it with tostadas. I've been asking my mother for some pozole for this December, if the thread is still up and I'm not kicked out of the kitchen, I might post photos of how it was done.
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Have your every thought admit leaving narco land for the land of the free, Texas?
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Desperado Bones posted:The "fresas" which are daughters/sons of rich people. Insufferable people that act as they own the world: Banda Zeta had a whole hit song about that, back in the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_YexVAD9xY
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Have your every thought admit leaving narco land for the land of the free, Texas?  It's my dream to move out to another country. But that might never happen.Kopijeger posted:What are some common steretypes about foreign countries? Americans are usually seen as blonde blue eyed racists, I think we use a lot the Texan stereotype. Argentinians are portrayed as Latin Americans that are trying so hard to be European, it's very common that here in Mexico they are mocked as immigrants who come to play roles in soap operas or work as waiters in some fancy restaurant. Africans and Asians are,sadly, still portrayed in a very racist way. Example, blatant black face is a thing, and people don't understand why is wrong. So there's this theory that because Mexicans always try to imitate what the USA does, we saw the use of black face when it was a thing in the US and tried to imitate it. Black face and racist stereotypes,sadly,stayed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_tuB2p_qCU Eugenio Derbez is one of those comedians that I dislike, because he does something like that. He actually pulled some "brown-face" poo poo in one of Adam Sandler's movies(He also stole several characters from another older and better comedian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNIWKNZm6gA There's a documentary in youtube about the African-Mexicans and how they have been victims of racism and classicism.
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Desperado Bones posted:Don't wash your hands Yeah, the garnishes that my family put on their pozole is as follows: shredded cabbage diced onion sliced radishes diced serrano peppers/chiles manzano lime wedges and the garnishes that my girlfriend and I have added over the years that we've been together: crumbled queso fresco diced avocado cilantro
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FIRST TIME posted:Yeah, the garnishes that my family put on their pozole is as follows: Must be a regional thing. In my family we don't serve it with cilantro, or cabbage, neither cheese or avocado. Cilantro is left for the consome de barbacoa. Also, pozole verde is a fun thing to make. You have to blend avocado,serranos,jalapeños,cilantro,tomatillo and lettuce. 
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Speaking of avocados, how much do you pay for a fresh avocado? Are they generally pretty good? (Seems like here in Texas maybe 1 out of every 3 is bad, or maybe I just suck at picking them).
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chunkles posted:Speaking of avocados, how much do you pay for a fresh avocado? Are they generally pretty good? (Seems like here in Texas maybe 1 out of every 3 is bad, or maybe I just suck at picking them). You suck at picking them. But then avocados can get bad really quick. Around 1.181 American dollars one kilo, that in a supermarket. Perhaps way more cheaper in a regular public market. Prices also depend in what state you are in, how well the crops went, prices of gasoline, etc,etc.
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How convoluted is the process of leaving the country for you? What countries would you want to move to if able? What currently keeps you from leaving? I appreciate this interesting thread. Thanks for talking. 
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Captain Log posted:How convoluted is the process of leaving the country for you? Very,I should say. People trying to get a visa get rejected left and right, in some countries they ask you to show proof that you already have a place to stay, or know a citizen of their country. I think the US is the one that makes things more difficult if someone wants to get the green card. You actually need to be someone really famous, or some super important scientist/professional/sportsman to be allowed to get a good paid job fast and quickly in the US. quote:What countries would you want to move to if able? What currently keeps you from leaving? I have my eyes set on Europe,somewhere in Scandinavia. I heard things over there are nicer. And here comes the reason of what is keeping me from leaving: money. Like,right now,I barely have money for this week's public transport. Someday I expect to finally catch a nice job and be able to do what I'm wishing to.
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Have you ever considered crossing into the US illegally? If Europe is your goal that would probably make it harder to get your visa down the road but in the meantime you'd be living in relative safety. Have any of your friends/relatives come to the US?
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beanieson posted:Have you ever considered crossing into the US illegally? If Europe is your goal that would probably make it harder to get your visa down the road but in the meantime you'd be living in relative safety. Have any of your friends/relatives come to the US? Nope. Crossing seems tempting but I know is really dangerous and it's as expensive as traveling overseas. You can end dead in the desert, or in the hands of the cartels. I think I prefer using the legal ways instead,no matter how long it takes. I've been told that traveling illegally is really harsh, and once you settle you end up living in the same conditions are we are here. Some immigrants get there to save money and return, so I've told stories were they practically end living of bread and beans, nothing else. And that they have to be always on the hiding, you can't go around socializing, having fun, or whatever. I'm not sure how true is that, but then each case is different. I do have relatives living in other parts of the world, but it's that part of my family that really doesn't like my mother or my sisters. It's funny, the poor side of my family is more tolerant and nice, the rich side are a bunch that tend to be elitist racists. My sister studied her doctorate in Arizona, but was never able to catch a job...or they weren't interested in her. Here's some extra stories I know: Once, when we went to California, that was like before 9/11, my uncle introduced us to a friend of him. He was a Mexican legally living in San Diego. That was also my first encounter with the American suburbia, and I have to say those places are scary and silent. This person, I was told, would receive immigrants in his home. Passing them as relatives coming for vacations, while they looked for a far away place where they could find a job. In a few words, it was some sort of shelter. My ex-boyfriend's relatives, an uncle and his older son, did go illegally to the US, I was told how they walked through the desert and at certain moment they were out of water. The feeling was desperation and many thought they were about to die. At certain moment they finally reached a tiny town inhabited by Native Americans. These guys were surprisingly nice, and were quick to offer water and food so they could continue their journey. Those relatives stayed in the US for several days, until one day they decided enough was enough and returned. My ex's uncle bought a taxi and van(which are used for public transport) and rebuilt his wife's house with the money he had saved.
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quote:People from North Mexico are always stereotyped as wearing cowboy hats, jeans,boots,etc. It's like the Mexican version of a Texan, with strong accents, like they are angry at you. They are the macho Mexican. I just thought you might want to know that this is the prevailing stereotype of ALL Mexicans in the USA. This is probably because of the proximity of the border states. This also extends to all hispanics, since people conflate them with Mexicans. In my job I often talk with people from various parts of Mexico who were here to work (legally). What I discovered is that everyone is proud of where they're from and swears that it's the most beautiful part of all of Mexico Do you have any stereotypes about different parts of the United States, different states, regions, etc? Thesaurus fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Nov 10, 2014 |
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A friend of a friend married a first-generation Mexican immigrant. According to him his inlaws always bring huge wads of USD with them when they come up here to visit, supposedly because the Mexican government has been cracking down on US currency transactions lately and so all the people that had a chunk of savings in USD are stuck unable to spend it at home. Is this a thing, or are they just trying to launder drug money?
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Thesaurus posted:I just thought you might want to know that this is the prevailing stereotype of ALL Mexicans in the USA. This is probably because of the proximity of the border states. This also extends to all hispanics, since people conflate them with Mexicans. Every part of Mexico is the most beautiful one no matter how hosed up it is. That's the nostalgia talking. I know Tabasco can be a shithole of poverty and corruption, but yet I remember it as a very beautiful cultural place.I think we do, the ones I can think are that Florida is the land of the Cubans. Texans go around with their funny accents and cowboy hats. The rest of America are just blonde gringos, and that's all. If we hold any other stereotypes, it's mostly taken from what we've seen in movies and television. Gabriel Pope posted:A friend of a friend married a first-generation Mexican immigrant. According to him his inlaws always bring huge wads of USD with them when they come up here to visit, supposedly because the Mexican government has been cracking down on US currency transactions lately and so all the people that had a chunk of savings in USD are stuck unable to spend it at home. Is this a thing, or are they just trying to launder drug money? I really don't know. I do know that years ago you could spend dollars in any store easily, but they just stopped. And changing your USD to pesos shouldn't be a problem. My sister was able to change hers when she came back from the US. Anyway, I went on a quick search and found this one the news: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/06/22/economia/024n1eco (in Spanish,use Google translate )They are just regulating how much money you can change monthly.
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Can you please give me a breakdown of "guey" and its uses? By the guey, you could have offered me $10,000 for the correct spelling of that word and I would have been wrong. That is a super bizarre, uhh, way to spell a word that is pronounced "way", or I suppose its more like "hway". So is it basically a universal way to address someone you know and depends on the relationship? Like, it can be either "hey dude" or "hey dummy" depending on the context/relationship?
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visuvius posted:Can you please give me a breakdown of "guey" and its uses? By the guey, you could have offered me $10,000 for the correct spelling of that word and I would have been wrong. That is a super bizarre, uhh, way to spell a word that is pronounced "way", or I suppose its more like "hway". Hahaha, it's written "güey", that comes from the word buey, which is a bull. Once the era of the internet came to my country, everyone started to write it "wey". If someone tells you "No seas güey!" (don't be güey!), that means to "stop being an idiot" or "don't be such an idiot". That's of course a reference that bulls can be sort of...well stupid. So, don't be as stupid as a bull. It can also turn in to an insult when you say "Pinche wey" to a stranger that did something, well stupid, or was just being an rear end in a top hat. If you say "Pinche wey" to a good friend, they won't get mad at you, at much they will laugh and call you back "pinche putito" or something like that. If you want it to be more and more insulting, start adding as many obscenities as you know "Pinche puto wey pendejo hijo de su chingada madre" When you find a good old friend on the street, you can say "Que pedo wey!" and do a silly handshake. That means "what fart wey", which is our version of "what's up dude!". You can also say "Que pedo pinche wey!". A more PG version of that greeting is "Que onda wey!" And saying "hey,wey...", "Oye,wey..." It can be used to start a casual conversation, or asking something. But it always have to be to an old friend, never call a stranger wey. So, as a lesson, everything in Mexico has to,indeed,do with context and your relationship with others.
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How comfortable do you feel talking about current events right now? If not I could ask over pm.
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Berke Negri posted:How comfortable do you feel talking about current events right now? If not I could ask over pm. Depends on what sort of current events you mean. If it's about the 43? Don't buy what the national media says. They are well known to just give the news that are convenient, or manipulate them in very blatant way. I'm surprised this time they didn't went with the "soap opera actress does something scandalous" route.
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So on the opposite end, what do you like about where you live?
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Ice Phisherman posted:So on the opposite end, what do you like about where you live? The only thing I like about Tampico is the weather. I get to wear a scarf in winter, which you can't never do in the south! The town, sadly, got hosed up by the cartels so bad that it's visibly way behind in economical growth compared with other cities in other states. I love museums, and parks, art galleries,the movies,even big malls and spending the night in a restaurant, and I'm way to used to visit places like that back at mother's. Over here there are technically no museums,we only have three movie theaters, there's just one tiny mall,etc,etc...so I often get bored and spend my time here online being a goon.Now, if you ask me about back down there at my mother's, I'm going to end giving you a huge list.
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Desperado Bones posted:The only thing I like about Tampico is the weather. Sure! Mostly I'm interested in the broad strokes. How life is similar in one respect, different in others, but in positive ways.
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I can't think of a non-silly way to phrase this question, but what kinds of Mexican music are there? In the US, Spanish-language stuff just gets billed as "Latino" or "Spanish music", but I imagine there must be different categories and styles just like in English-language music. What kinds of things do Mexican families have friendly arguments about? (For instance, here in the US there's a kind of stereotype of a crazy uncle, usually right-wing, who spouts off every family gathering about the Democrats, or Obamacare, or how our president is a stealth Muslim born in Kenya, or how kids these days are irreligious, and so on.) What are some good jokes? e: Also, do people reference Hitler/Nazism as an example of "a bad thing" in conversation in Mexico like we do as fantastic in plastic fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Nov 12, 2014 07:33
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What is up with the long pointy ranchero boots? When I went to Mexico City I was surprised at how few non-Mexican restaurants there were. I took my friend for Indian curry- his first ever, at age 30. How much money do the dudes playing music and sells lollipops on the bus make in a day, and how does that compare with other jobs?
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