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geaaronson
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Location: Mexico City
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| Bodies and more bodies. Roadkill. So that�s your impression of Mexico. Interestingly it was mine as well when I first moved here but since then that impression has been forgotten. On the 4th day here I was staying somewhere outside of the center of the city, and sure enough there was a dead cat that had died in the bushes alongside the building I was staying in. The next month, on a trip to Museo de Belles Artes, there was a dead dog on the steps leading up to the entrance on a Sunday midafternoon with thousands of people coming in to see the Freida Kahlo show. A month later there was another dead dog in the bushes alongside the Zocalo cathedral. Yup, animals do die here in the public, perhaps to remind their uncaring human public how ignominously they were treated when alive. |
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Guy Courchesne
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Location: Mexico City
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| Bodies and more bodies. Roadkill. So that�s your impression of Mexico. Interestingly it was mine as well when I first moved here but since then that impression has been forgotten. |
What are you saying about me here exactly?
Roadkill, as in animals hit by cars you find anywhere you go. Sorry if you don't like the term. But if you think that people here don't care about pets and animals, then you need to look a little more deeply into things (do you have a pet?). I'm a pet owner and every weekend I'm approached by others who care about strays. Try going to parque Mexico or Espana and seeing how many people are there walking strays or pitching volunteer services for stray pets picked up by the city. and the multitude of pet adotpion services.
If you're not a pet owner, I'm sure it's easy to miss if you never go to pet fairs, parks, or generally interact with that crowd here.
I've seen my share of dead animals...it's not pretty. What it says is that this city needs a better animal service as animals such as these die back home just the same. But is also speaks of what you don't see. The people here who care about such things and who are working on it.
I must say I'm having a hard time with this thread. It's starting to resemble yet another thread where everything Mexican fulfills a stereotype others have. Ignorance never used to be so highly valued on this forum. |
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Mrs L
Joined: 20 Mar 2008
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Location: Rainy England
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
I must say I'm having a hard time with this thread. It's starting to resemble yet another thread where everything Mexican fulfills a stereotype others have. Ignorance never used to be so highly valued on this forum. |
OK so lets try and get back on topic then. I'll just reiterate that the wonderful colours of the buildings always fascinated me. Colours that wouldn't work anywhere else look really good against the blue sky and sunshine.
Other things:
-How amazing real Mexican food is when it's interpreted so badly in the rest of the world.
-All the different types of Tequila and the fact that you mix it with Squirt and don't just do the stereotypical shot with lime and salt.
-The respect that children and teenagers (generally) have towards adults.
-Those tight nylon trousers that many women wear, even on the hottest days, and the way they're not bothered about the 'love handles' that hang over the top (seems it's better to wear a smaller size even if it makes you look fatter).
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El Gallo
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| I've noticed how teens here are not too "cool" to got to family parties and do things with their families and younger siblings and cousins - a big difference from teens in the States (albieit some "fresas" do sit and text message the whole time - at a party for an 18 year old friend of the family, eight teens sat around the table all text messaging someone else and ignoring one another and everyone else there.) |
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cscx
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I'm always amused by the fact that Mexicans swear that the "cure" for a sore throat is to wear a scarf.
Also, babies are always wrapped in a million blankets. |
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MO39
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| cscx wrote: |
I'm always amused by the fact that Mexicans swear that the "cure" for a sore throat is to wear a scarf.
Also, babies are always wrapped in a million blankets. |
This may have something to do with a folk superstition that "los aires" cause disease. |
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girlcabbie
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From my doula training:
Swaddling babies keeps them relaxed and calm. Wrapped up nice and tight = happy baby. Up to a certain age at least. |
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MO39
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| girlcabbie wrote: |
From my doula training:
Swaddling babies keeps them relaxed and calm. Wrapped up nice and tight = happy baby. Up to a certain age at least. |
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geaaronson
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: nothing personal |
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| I wasn�t saying anything about you. In fact, I didn�t even have you in mind when I wrote what I did. Why are you so paranoid? |
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TheLongWayHome
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Location: San Luis Piojosi
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: cuidado le va a entrar un aireciiiiiiiiito se�or!!!!!!!! |
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| MO39 wrote: |
| cscx wrote: |
I'm always amused by the fact that Mexicans swear that the "cure" for a sore throat is to wear a scarf.
Also, babies are always wrapped in a million blankets. |
This may have something to do with a folk superstition that "los aires" cause disease. |
Thank god I just smiled politely at the 900 women that told me I was in breach of the 'Mexican baby 4 blanket mimimum'. He is now 2 and doesn't get sick every time the weather changes or every time he goes out and it's below 20. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| OK so lets try and get back on topic then. I'll just reiterate that the wonderful colours of the buildings always fascinated me. Colours that wouldn't work anywhere else look really good against the blue sky and sunshine. |
I'm sorry for my irrational post. I've not been myself lately. Apologies to anyone offended.
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I'm always amused by the fact that Mexicans swear that the "cure" for a sore throat is to wear a scarf.
Also, babies are always wrapped in a million blankets. |
I keep wondering about that...it gets to 25C in DF in winter (though it does get cold overnight) yet babies are wrapped up like they were on an arctic expedition. |
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Dragonlady
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MO39
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| Dragonlady wrote: |
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| ...eight teens sat around the table all text messaging someone else and ignoring one another and everyone else there.... |
They learn it from their parents. I've been to both formal and informal functions for adults and that's exactly what most of them were doing. I was nervous about going - not being able to socialize as my spanish was/is terrible. No problem. I could have brought my cell phone and pretended 'I too was having a wonderful time'. 
But then I've not been to something similar back home for a hundred years, so maybe it's the same everywhere? |
No, it's not the same everywhere. I can't imagine that happening at family events I'm invited to here in the D.F. Maybe people are more civilized here in the crazy Mexican capital  ! |
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Dragonlady
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Dragonlady
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