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Dec. 25th, 2004 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ghiniSurreal holiday moment #1:
My Cuban father refers to the Little Havana part of Miami as "Spicville" and refuses to speak Spanish to "those people"
My Cuban father refers to the Little Havana part of Miami as "Spicville" and refuses to speak Spanish to "those people"
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Date: 2004-12-26 05:10 am (UTC)That rivals Nani's story today about the black guy she met. The story really had no other content.
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Date: 2004-12-26 06:18 am (UTC)My grandmother told me once she had a "colored" doctor, but assured me it was okay because he was one of the best in the state. obviously she mistokk my look of "so?" for a look of concern
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Date: 2004-12-26 09:41 am (UTC)(My paternal grandmother has unorthodox notions of English pronunciation and usage. Her renditions of common words routinely have more or fewer syllables than the more commonly accepted versions.)
I tuned out at that point and left the room shortly after, because if I kept listening I might say something, and there would be no hope of recovering family harmony from that.
I don't think Grandma is a bigot, in the sense that she's not motivated by hatred. She just has views that were fixed a long time ago, and which I have little capacity to broaden nor deepen. She long ago lost the capacity to appreciate or absorb anything new. That's not vile, but it is sad.
When I can, I avoid conflict with people I can't convince and will outlive. There are some hills that aren't worth fighting on. At most, I can nudge. It's far less stressful to avoid.
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Date: 2004-12-26 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-26 05:44 pm (UTC)She has also told me that if all the black people have so many problems with America they never should have chosen to come here in the first place. i shit you not.
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Date: 2004-12-26 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-12-26 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-26 02:27 pm (UTC)My mom actually stopped hanging out with our old southern neighbors because they were so racist she couldn't take it after a while.
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Date: 2004-12-27 03:02 am (UTC)