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Guy Courchesne
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dixie
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| I really don�t remember much of the Speedy Gonzalez cartoons, but I certainly remember the bull one! |
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Guy Courchesne
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| They took Speedy off the air long ago since it was deemed racist. They also cut out much of the Road Runner/Coyote violence. |
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Phil_K
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My first contact with Mexico was "jumping beans" - a woody bean-like thing which supposedly had an incest larva inside. This must have been in the late 1960s. If this is what they really are, it's a mystery how they got through customs! 
...oh, and I once went to a school fancy-dress party as a Mexican. Sombrero, blanket, false moustache and carrying a small plastic toy guitar.  |
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kosherpickle
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| They took Speedy off the air long ago since it was deemed racist. They also cut out much of the Road Runner/Coyote violence. |
actually, i believe they deemed that silly as hell, especially since they'd have to knock out a few other characters, like pepe le pu the skunk etc. i think the only ones they don't show now are the really....really stereotypical ones or ones where the characters are doing things like smoking.
i was born and raised in san antonio, so i had pretty good impressions of what mexican culture could be like.
though i am terribly ashamed to say that my younger self used to think that a mexican's poor grasp of english=poor intelligence. i feel really terrible about that now, especially since i am the one trying hard to learn spanish and i worry there will be people with mistaken ideas as i had when i speak it. |
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MELEE
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Guy Courchesne
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| Is that you the photo? |
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MELEE
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| Yes, I'm the one on the end behind the sobrero. This was an international food fair, where all the girlscout troops in the city represented a country, we had to investigate the country, make some craft--we did the huicol yarn paintings, and make a food item to sell. We were selling cookies, like polverones. The recipe came from a neighbor who was Mexican. Actually many of the other things on the table came from her too. When ever I go craft shopping here I get flashbacks to their house. On the outside, it looked just like mine (only yellow) but the inside was a wonderland of masks, ceramics, and yes even velvet paintings. |
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