Comments on: International Grocery Shopping http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/ eddie avila Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:19:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: MB http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-194 MB Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:30:39 +0000 http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/#comment-194 It is definitely an adventure. I lived for about one year in a really small town in northern Germany. I was the only one with dark hair and dark eyes in the town. At the beginning I felt like an alien. But, I tell you, after a while, one gets used to. After sixs months I felt like a star. Being recognized all over. Learning German helped a lot. But, to tell you the truth, I think it helped being light skinned. I cannot imagine how an African person would have felt. It is definitely an adventure. I lived for about one year in a really small town in northern Germany. I was the only one with dark hair and dark eyes in the town. At the beginning I felt like an alien. But, I tell you, after a while, one gets used to. After sixs months I felt like a star. Being recognized all over. Learning German helped a lot.

But, to tell you the truth, I think it helped being light skinned. I cannot imagine how an African person would have felt.

]]> By: eduardo http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-193 eduardo Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:03:31 +0000 http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/#comment-193 Yeah, I was up in Maine a couple of weeks ago and it was eerie not seeing anybody but Caucasians. I don't think I could live anywhere in the U.S. that wasn't mixed racially and ethnically, but that's just me. Yeah, I was up in Maine a couple of weeks ago and it was eerie not seeing anybody but Caucasians. I don’t think I could live anywhere in the U.S. that wasn’t mixed racially and ethnically, but that’s just me.

]]> By: MB http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-192 MB Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:09:35 +0000 http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/#comment-192 I second that Amen. But, it is always a great experience to take a drive, once in a while, outside Northern Virginia. You don't have to get too far. Places like Middleburg, Winchester or if you cross into West Virginia, Petersburg, one can realize the US is still a white country with very big urban concentrations of multi-cultural areas. Another way of realizing that multi-cultural areas are just small areas in the vast US territory is to turn your radio while driving down or up the coast. As soon as you get out of the metropolitan area, it's all country music. Granted I am not saying multi-cultural areas are insignificant. After all, there are around 30 million Latinos, another 30 million African Americans and another couple of millions of people from other coultures. But, there are still around 160 million white folks, whom are the majority and as such, they have the most say in the US. Now, what is the relevance of all this? Absolutely nothing, I was just thinking that while the US is by definition an immigrant country (for some people, heaven), it is far from being a true "melting pot" or "salad" or however you want it to be called. I second that Amen. But, it is always a great experience to take a drive, once in a while, outside Northern Virginia. You don’t have to get too far. Places like Middleburg, Winchester or if you cross into West Virginia, Petersburg, one can realize the US is still a white country with very big urban concentrations of multi-cultural areas. Another way of realizing that multi-cultural areas are just small areas in the vast US territory is to turn your radio while driving down or up the coast. As soon as you get out of the metropolitan area, it’s all country music.

Granted I am not saying multi-cultural areas are insignificant. After all, there are around 30 million Latinos, another 30 million African Americans and another couple of millions of people from other coultures. But, there are still around 160 million white folks, whom are the majority and as such, they have the most say in the US.

Now, what is the relevance of all this? Absolutely nothing, I was just thinking that while the US is by definition an immigrant country (for some people, heaven), it is far from being a true “melting pot” or “salad” or however you want it to be called.

]]> By: Miguel Centellas http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Miguel Centellas Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:50:46 +0000 http://www.barrioflores.net/blog/2004/11/28/international-grocery-shopping/#comment-191 Amen. It sure it. Amen. It sure it.

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