(July 29, 2021 at 2:16 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You’re overthinking it Brian. They see Mexicans, they don’t like Mexicans, and they don’t like being confused for Mexicans. They -especially- don’t want to be treated like Mexicans.
It’s called buy in. European immigrants did the same.
If you read all of my posts, I made it clear that tribalism is unfortunately universal.
I said in a prior post that my Japanese x wife hated being confused for Korean. I had a Puerto Rican co worker whom hated being confused with Mexicans.
Even in America, having traveled overseas myself. I don't like being confused with center of the country. Even in America, white Californians have little in common with white Oklahomans or white New Yorkers. My x Japanese wife told me, even in Japan, there is a huge dialect. cultural difference between the tips of the far north of Japan closer to Russia than the far southern tip Okinawa in the tropics.
Even in my travels in America, I have had many points interacting with others as pale as me, and had to have had to ask them to repeat themselves.
In Australia they call wall sockets, outlets, "power points". On my first trip there, I found out I need a different power cord to use my computer. My host kept on repeating, "No worries, we will get you the proper "Powerpoint". I kept on thinking, "Why the fuck do I need new software?" I simply wanted a power cord so I could plug my computer into the wall. "Powerpoint" to them is the same as "plug" or "wall socket" or "outlet".
Oh and if you want shrimp in Australia, you don't call it shrimp, they call them "prawns". And if you ask for "chicken wings" they give you the entire wing of an adult chicken, not the winglets or drumlets we think of here.
Ask for a "hamburger" you will get literally a slice of ham and not the American beef burger. And if you do get an American style beef burger, it will include a slice of beat root and carrots shavings.
