Re: Racial Classification & credit line

--- written this with a lil help/hindrance from my friends who treated me to
a home cooked Latino din-din (& some much needed groceries and coffee supplies
when they saw I had only "Pano" health bread, a shrivelled eggplant, some
foodbank fruits, granola, leftover New Year Day Indonesian-style green curry and
spaghetti in my lil hovel of a livin'space)
[addenum (written after they left for Caffè Dante and some Latin Jazz
nightclub): oh they are "nice"... but they have ulterior motives that make me
somewhat jittery...]

In a message dated 2004:01:02 03:10:26 AM, yonjuuni@EARTHLINK.NET writes:

>Andreas Johansson wrote:
>> But I guess it was used to include
>> Latin Americans, leaving it even just as pointless and even more opaque?
>
>Or maybe Latin Americans were just "impure" Latinates, having "Indian"
>and "Negro" blood mixed in?
    Bingo! Exactly.... My _anarchisto_/radio-pirate friend "DJ Rigo de Toro"
- hailing from Barcelona Spain - says thats why he considers himself "Latino"
and his neighbors from Mexico, Cuba, etc. as his "cousin Latino Americanos."
So "Latino" in general, so he argues, is correct not only socio-politically but
more importantly culturally *.
    His riotgrrl friend (& my ex-"jailbird" gf), Alisia, from Rimini
Italy/San Marino is "Latina Prima" ;)

* He wishes to see a "Pan-Latino" culture movement encompassing all the
Latinate countries and cultures that were untouched by the Protestant Reformation
and have a proven "blood-history of proto-anarchistic 'anti-clericalism'" -
another words, anybody who "can trace even a drop of blood to south-western
Europe and Italy... and anybody who identifies completely with these cultures on a
spiritual level."
    He considers Gibraltorans, French, Corsicans, Maltese, Moroccans, Jews,
Gypsies and Greeks with ancestry from these areas "Latinos first and
foremost...".
    "Don't forget your cousin _Chino-Mexicanos_ in Mexico City..."
    "AiYaH!"
    "Aija Yourself!"
     "Will ya quit hoverin' over my shoulder!... I can't write this up with
you messin' up my already scatter-brainied writin' style."

    I ask Rigo if CheChe "Basta Chino" Wong, a Jewish Cuban-Chinese chef we
both know, is Latino.
    "Hell yeeeaaah esaaai!... even if he wasn't part Cuuubanooo, he qualify
on just his Kosher fried plantain & rice dish alone! _And_ waaaay too many
Cubans say he play dominos like a 'BAstA' - which is very much like the calling a
poker-player 'Doc' is amongst the Anglos, you know, hey by the way I like the
way you just now types up my accent -"
    "AiYah!"

    Oh, amongst the above-mentioned company (& their friends/families) - ever
since I lived in the Mission District in San Francisco circa 1989 and did 6
months hardtime in Santa Rita in 1990, I have had the street "tag" of "Chino
Loco" and, proudly, I am not Latino ;)... yet **
    "If that ever happens we nickname ya 'Chino Mutanto'!"
    Alisia: "Jon, you oughta hurry up and bone up on your lousy Spanish...and
your Italian... it's gettin' worse with out use...and your abuse!" *gigglebox
activity!*
    Rigo: *ROTFL* "Uuuse It ...or loooose It... "
    Alisia's mum:  "By the way you need to go out more... Seriously I worry
about ya... Nearly always in front of that box [my 'puter] every time I am
here..."
    "AiYaaH!"
    Alisia's mum: "Stop it with all that damn 'Aiyaah-ing! Will ya? It's
annoyin' ... and it sounds like we didn't feed you good or sumt'ing..."

(** even I hafta remind myself of the weird adaptive traits of the Cantonese,
i.e. CheChe ... and the Chinese-Mexican families - with daughters - I have
been "introduced to just by chance" [yeah, right, just by freakin' chance, eh?
with friends like these, who needs enemies...  (Rigo's & Alisia's
simultan-o-response:  :P~ and "the Bird"   )]).



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