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Post by jabberwocky on Oct 1, 2016 17:55:32 GMT -5
Seems every area has a name for their inhabitants , Paisas , Rollos, Costeno's , Calenos, maybe Manizall'ianos?
What I find amusing is how each thinks they are the best - seems especially true for Paisa's - even here in the Orlando, lots of Colombians but the wife still likes to hang with others from Medellin area - in the high school where the youngest step daughter attends - their are Colombian clicks that are broken down by cities, for example a new kid from Colombia started school in her class - she thought he was OK - but had to add a little dig " but he is a Rollo"
I get it though - being from Philly area - we think New Yorker's kind of suck and consider Pittsburgh to be a part of Ohio. And People in Jacksonville Florida think the residents of Miami live in another country.
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Post by gallito on Oct 1, 2016 18:04:57 GMT -5
I would think the US Hispanic cultural divides would be drawn between Boricua, Cubano , Dominicans , Mejicano and Colombiano... NY burrows are somewhat divided by Hispanic cultures.
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Post by suba on Oct 1, 2016 18:45:28 GMT -5
I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that anyone from Bogotá thinks Paisas are either hookers or country bumpkins - which probably explains why Paisas feel as they do about Rollos.
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Post by ozgringo on Oct 1, 2016 18:59:22 GMT -5
I find that they are also very snobbish.
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Post by billforce on Oct 1, 2016 19:18:36 GMT -5
We all know the basic problem is the Rollo's are all crooks, Santos. Petro, Moreno, and all the good guys like Uribe are Paisa's.
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Post by gallito on Oct 1, 2016 20:16:19 GMT -5
I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that anyone from Bogotá thinks Paisas are either hookers or country bumpkins - which probably explains why Paisas feel as they do about Rollos. ...and do tell about la Caleña and their colchon fixations.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2016 0:09:38 GMT -5
No doubt about it. Colombia is a patch work of different ethnicities, cultures, politics and geography.
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Post by billyb on Oct 2, 2016 0:10:58 GMT -5
No doubt about it. Colombia is a patch work of different ethnicities, cultures, politics and geography. Yup, could easily be different countries.
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Post by barrumundi on Oct 2, 2016 2:50:55 GMT -5
Even different barrios in the same small town have varying amounts of contempt and snobishness ........specially when there are large 'free' housing complexes for displaced people.
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Post by coolcoil on Oct 2, 2016 6:04:07 GMT -5
I can't disagree with anything that's been said here, but any observer of any culture could say the same thing. As jabberwocky noted in his OP, you find this in the USA, and I would bet any amount of money we've all experienced and participated in this no matter where we are from. Tribalism and creating in-groups and out-groups is an indelible part of human nature. Though, it is universally understood that people from New Jersey are a lower form of life who thrive on the smell of refinery gasses.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2016 6:48:24 GMT -5
I can't disagree with anything that's been said here, but any observer of any culture could say the same thing. As jabberwocky noted in his OP, you find this in the USA, and I would bet any amount of money we've all experienced and participated in this no matter where we are from. Tribalism and creating in-groups and out-groups is an indelible part of human nature. Though, it is universally understood that people from New Jersey are a lower form of life who thrive on the smell of refinery gasses. Yes, but we are Jersey strong! I was just in Elizabeth, NJ 6 weeks ago, and the aroma was a shadow of itself back when I was a kid in the 50s and 60s.
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Post by entonces on Oct 2, 2016 7:30:36 GMT -5
Back in the 70's the gf and I left Omaha for a four month vacation and "fact finding" tour of South America. We flew to Buenos Aires and slowly hitch-hiked to Barranquilla. When we returned home people would ask me "What do people down there think about the US?" My take away was that mostly they don't think about the US. What I found is that folks down here have long and complicated histories with each other that revolve around a great deal of unpleasantness in years gone by such as wars, battles and stuff like that. They are thinking about that town down the road or the one on the other side of the mountain, or that guy from a different tribe sitting next to them on the bus.
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Post by wildstubby on Oct 2, 2016 8:02:03 GMT -5
You live in New Jersey? Yeah? What exit? ? My last GF was a costeno. When she told me that I asked her to explain the difference between her and a paisa, (unknowingly). Boy, did I get an earful!!!! It even gets subdivided here in the states, at least here in PA. Being from Sunbury, I was a river rat. Then you have the 'crackers' as in coal crackers or coal honkies. etc.....
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