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I don’t particularly care that for original joke of this thread myself, I did not think it was funny because it could insult some of our members, and I would hate for that to happen, but maybe that’s just me and I'll get over it. But reading through this thread does shed some interesting light on what kind of discrimination is acceptable and what is not…

It's the same with any race - people from the Midwest, at least back in the 70's, thought that Mexicans and Spanish were hilarious.

I would be interested to hear what the definition of "Midwest" is because Virginia and Houston, TX couldn't be further from the geographical Midwest. And as preposterous as that sounds, if it was even remotely true that all people from the Midwest thought that Mexicans and Spanish were "hilarious", one has to wonder if that came out what they had seen on television and at the movies that were written and produced by people who live in a town called Hollywood, which I believe is in a Midwestern state called California. ;0
 
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It's Chuck, not Rich. I'm careful to sign my name when I post so there isn't any confusion there. Don't wanty Rich taking any hits for anything I say! :-)

Once again, it wasn't the joke itself; just the ancillary comment made.

Chuck
 
OK, I should have said, "I have met people from the Midwest back in the 70's and 80's who made fun of Mexicans and the Spanish language. At the time I attributed it to their nervousness over being exposed to a culture and language they did not understand. I still think that is the case, although obviously the Midwest has become more cosmopolitan since then."

As for Hollywood, well, it generally caters to the lowest common denominator across the nation. Nobody I know would equate Hollywood with the rest of California, especially not with the SF Bay Area.
 
As a third generation Chinese American I still get questions periodically from strangers asking me if I speak English. I usually laugh it off and will make some smart remark back to that person. It's this kind of subtle discrimination of not understanding other people's culture and background/language that perpetuates this kind of comment from people.
 
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Broudreaux and Thibodaux (pronounced "boo-DRO" and "tih-bo-DO") were out dere on da boat fishin. Boudreaux had to take his lil' baby wit him cause dat wife was out shoppin. After a while a funny smell filled the air. "Boudreaux" said Thib "I t'ink your lil' babe' done caca'd in his pantz. you might wanna change hiz diaper."

Boudreaux said "Dat's alright, them diapers says they hold up to 12 pounds an' he only got 6 pounds a shit in it."
 
You gotta understand a little French for this one.

Back in the 30s, the gova-mint sent some english speaking teachers done to Cajun country of Louisiana to teach dem lil' kids how to talk dat English. Well, this little lady was at the school in Church Point trying to teach the kids to count in English so she did like this.

"Now I want you all to repeat after me.

Now, say 'one'"

and the kids said "One"

"Now, say two"

And the kids left.

(hint: Say Two sounds like C'est Tout, meaning "That's all")
 

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