jueves, septiembre 29
Ramble #271
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Market Vu Two
Cicsprod
Yes, I know these words might be foreign to you. Actually I hope they are foreign to you. Those words are part of my "job lingo." We all have this vocational-vocabulary and it always becomes part of our regular diction. You'll be sitting down at dinner with a friends trying to tell them a story of how the lady who sits 3 cube rows away is always asking you questions about the (insert job lingo here) b/c she doesn't understand how to process the (insert job lingo again here). At this point your friends are massively confused and probably know not to ask you what the hell all that "lingo" meant. They probably wish you would have just said your co-worker is a bitch, jerk, ass, or w/e ad hominem you care to use.
You see there is an obvious reason why your friends won't ask you what all that occupational terminology means- No one other than yourself cares about what you do for a living. Sure your family and loved ones will ask about your job and show interest but it isn't b/c they think your nine to five is the more thrilling than w/e reality show is on at the moment. They ask b/c they care about you and so they show interest in you.
Wow this post has gone really bad up to this point. I'm not going to erase anything that has been written so far. I want this to serve as a testament to how bad it can get on this page. I'm stunned that I actually intended on posting that load of crap I just wrote. This post is
obviously incapable of being salvaged but I'm going to try, and I'm going to do it with an anecdote.
Here in Cincinnati, as you would probably assume, they have a lot of local ads on the television. This is anything new, every city has them. Since I'm new to this area I'm just not used to them. Back in Miami we have an infinite amount of Hispanics who are on TV doing commercials where they speak in their second, sometimes third , language- English. Perhaps it is b/c Hispanics dominate most of the South Florida area culturally that it is not that difficult to understand what is being said as the narrator butchers one of the all time ugliest languages.
Here in Cincinnati you can be as much of bigot as anywhere else and pretty much split people culturally into three groups- White, Black, and White Trash. Thankfully most of the people here have bought into this idea and conveniently choose to live almost always in their groups neighborhood. So much so that the city is split into an East (White), Central (Black, and West (Trash). Obviously the people defined as "Trash" is always made up of unknowns and the further west you go the further west they'll say the trash lives. The Whites and the Blacks can not deny the characteristic that groups them but the "Trash" have an advantage b/c they can always just take a shower and refrain from showing their teeth.
So it seems in only a short period of time a weak form of racism has become evident to this newcomer. Whites don't want to live in "Black" or
"Trash" neighborhoods and don't feel threatened admitting it. Hispanics here are safe b/c there are hardly any for anyone to notice enough generalities to latch onto a stereotype. But rest assured I've seen some and for the most part they are keeping the "3 guys in the back of a pickup on the way to work" cliche going strong.
What made me realize all this was a TV commercial for the upcoming evening news. It told about a roof contractor that did a shitty job on a church roof and now the congregation is forced to deal with it. Yes, Cincinnati news is just like everywhere else- they put another contractor out of a job each day in the name of consumer protection. I for one think that situation is great opportunity for blackmail. The news could threaten to show the footage if the contractor doesn't shape up, therefore improving the service without leaving a bunch of little whiteys with no food on the table.
OK, I'm going off on a tangent. The thing that I am getting to is that while the news was talking about the evil contractor they showed a clip of an interview with the church's pastor commenting about the condition of the roof. I kid you not that they subtitled him even though he was speaking English. Is that not offensive? How is that not admitting that this guy talks such poor English white people won't be able to understand, even though all the black people who crowd into that church understand him enough to have him as their pastor. The black people congregate to hear this guy talk. The white people need subtitles to understand that he doesn't like holes in his roof. I guess white people at least have an excuse for why they never go to black-dominated church (oh no, can't worship among different skin colors!).
At least if the person was Hispanic you could say "Hey, they have an accent b/c they didn't grow up here speaking English," but here they seem to have accepted the African-American form of English as a distinct dialect. It made me crack up. I hope you at least find it surprising and wrong. I'm sure if a mental retard was subtitle someone would take offense to it.
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Yes, I know these words might be foreign to you. Actually I hope they are foreign to you. Those words are part of my "job lingo." We all have this vocational-vocabulary and it always becomes part of our regular diction. You'll be sitting down at dinner with a friends trying to tell them a story of how the lady who sits 3 cube rows away is always asking you questions about the (insert job lingo here) b/c she doesn't understand how to process the (insert job lingo again here). At this point your friends are massively confused and probably know not to ask you what the hell all that "lingo" meant. They probably wish you would have just said your co-worker is a bitch, jerk, ass, or w/e ad hominem you care to use.
You see there is an obvious reason why your friends won't ask you what all that occupational terminology means- No one other than yourself cares about what you do for a living. Sure your family and loved ones will ask about your job and show interest but it isn't b/c they think your nine to five is the more thrilling than w/e reality show is on at the moment. They ask b/c they care about you and so they show interest in you.
Wow this post has gone really bad up to this point. I'm not going to erase anything that has been written so far. I want this to serve as a testament to how bad it can get on this page. I'm stunned that I actually intended on posting that load of crap I just wrote. This post is
obviously incapable of being salvaged but I'm going to try, and I'm going to do it with an anecdote.
Here in Cincinnati, as you would probably assume, they have a lot of local ads on the television. This is anything new, every city has them. Since I'm new to this area I'm just not used to them. Back in Miami we have an infinite amount of Hispanics who are on TV doing commercials where they speak in their second, sometimes third , language- English. Perhaps it is b/c Hispanics dominate most of the South Florida area culturally that it is not that difficult to understand what is being said as the narrator butchers one of the all time ugliest languages.
Here in Cincinnati you can be as much of bigot as anywhere else and pretty much split people culturally into three groups- White, Black, and White Trash. Thankfully most of the people here have bought into this idea and conveniently choose to live almost always in their groups neighborhood. So much so that the city is split into an East (White), Central (Black, and West (Trash). Obviously the people defined as "Trash" is always made up of unknowns and the further west you go the further west they'll say the trash lives. The Whites and the Blacks can not deny the characteristic that groups them but the "Trash" have an advantage b/c they can always just take a shower and refrain from showing their teeth.
So it seems in only a short period of time a weak form of racism has become evident to this newcomer. Whites don't want to live in "Black" or
"Trash" neighborhoods and don't feel threatened admitting it. Hispanics here are safe b/c there are hardly any for anyone to notice enough generalities to latch onto a stereotype. But rest assured I've seen some and for the most part they are keeping the "3 guys in the back of a pickup on the way to work" cliche going strong.What made me realize all this was a TV commercial for the upcoming evening news. It told about a roof contractor that did a shitty job on a church roof and now the congregation is forced to deal with it. Yes, Cincinnati news is just like everywhere else- they put another contractor out of a job each day in the name of consumer protection. I for one think that situation is great opportunity for blackmail. The news could threaten to show the footage if the contractor doesn't shape up, therefore improving the service without leaving a bunch of little whiteys with no food on the table.
OK, I'm going off on a tangent. The thing that I am getting to is that while the news was talking about the evil contractor they showed a clip of an interview with the church's pastor commenting about the condition of the roof. I kid you not that they subtitled him even though he was speaking English. Is that not offensive? How is that not admitting that this guy talks such poor English white people won't be able to understand, even though all the black people who crowd into that church understand him enough to have him as their pastor. The black people congregate to hear this guy talk. The white people need subtitles to understand that he doesn't like holes in his roof. I guess white people at least have an excuse for why they never go to black-dominated church (oh no, can't worship among different skin colors!).
At least if the person was Hispanic you could say "Hey, they have an accent b/c they didn't grow up here speaking English," but here they seem to have accepted the African-American form of English as a distinct dialect. It made me crack up. I hope you at least find it surprising and wrong. I'm sure if a mental retard was subtitle someone would take offense to it.
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