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Discussion: You ever get told you act too white?
Member Since: 3/3/2011
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Never. But I agree with most of the stuff that were posted here, especially when you do well in school and people start to judge you.
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Member Since: 11/4/2011
Posts: 4,121
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Originally posted by Superbitch
I know. Maybe they wont be racist against Latinos there. I've always wanted to move to London.
But I have been told that cuz I do not like traditional Mexican music, I mean I like Latin pop and some stuff like reggaeton and bachata but since is not my favorites...so yeah I've been told I act too gringa(slang for white girl).
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I love bachata.
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Member Since: 11/18/2011
Posts: 7,791
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Originally posted by RichGirlPlanet
Tymoonisha is a hoe,
Shakeetha is not.
And don't get me started on Rolanda.
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Shakeetha stayed bussin it wide open to get that CNA job so what is you talkin bout?
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Member Since: 4/18/2011
Posts: 2,708
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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth
Am shocked at the posts in this thread, how can people be so obsessed with ones skin color, a mess
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Yeah me too ! i live in Europe too so I don't get the whole obsession thing with the skin color. It's so stupid
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Member Since: 5/21/2009
Posts: 11,151
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I used to get it alot back in the day. Even this hot white bitch at summer camp told me I wasn't the "typical black guy", which made me mad because I was skeemin' on her...but that's another story.
Anyways, I grew up attending predominately white private schools until 10th grade, so I didn't have much exposure to other kids of my race too often. I was the only black kid in my class, basically. The academy I went to for my Sophomore-Senior years was like 90% African-American. Everyone was talking about Lil Wayne', sneakers, and smoking blunts, and talking all this slang. And alot of them took the metro to school, but my parents always drove me. I literally went to Urban Dictionary to look up some of the words they were using because I was so clueless. I was SO white back then.
My parents are West Indian. And for those of you who are West Indian, you know that Blacks from the Carribean and America have two very different mindsets, especially when it comes to behavior and education. Success is an important aspect of our culture. So, I'm comfortable around West Indian Blacks, but even till this day, I have trouble making close friends with alot of African-Americans.
I couldn't be street or tell you anything about it to save my life, honestly. But I like who I am, I'm proud to be Black, but I just grew up in a household with a different culture.
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Member Since: 5/24/2011
Posts: 29,233
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Originally posted by Glamazon
Shakeetha stayed bussin it wide open to get that CNA job so what is you talkin bout?
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Like I said, keep it cute on Shakee.
I do not want to have to drag you by your teta's outside of 7-Eleven.
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Member Since: 6/25/2011
Posts: 28,853
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Yes, not recently though.
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Member Since: 6/7/2011
Posts: 22,128
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I get told I act "too Asian" sometimes.
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Member Since: 11/18/2008
Posts: 60,607
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Originally posted by hausofkisuke
I love bachata.
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I love the chyeryl GIF
Yass! I love dancing it with hot Dominicans lol
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Member Since: 11/5/2009
Posts: 8,096
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Originally posted by Beatfreak
My friend was told he acts too black.
He should've seen it coming to be honest.
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I work with this gay guy and he said when he gets angry, he turns into this "ghetto black woman inside"
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Member Since: 11/18/2011
Posts: 7,791
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Originally posted by Taste of Honey
But even so, y'all have let your inner hoodrat out on this site. I may sometimes post like I'm Poolaylay from Compton on ATRL, but I know mah ass would get snatched and buried in real life.
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waiT
I was raised on Grove st apt #6 so a bitch know not to **** with it.
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Member Since: 11/9/2010
Posts: 10,446
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"Proper" is what they would call me, because of my vocabulary and my vocal inflection. It's a mess.
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Member Since: 1/8/2011
Posts: 27,650
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Originally posted by NE.
I used to get it alot back in the day. Even this hot white bitch at summer camp told me I wasn't the "typical black guy", which made me mad because I was skeemin' on her...but that's another story.
Anyways, I grew up attending predominately white private schools until 10th grade, so I didn't have much exposure to other kids of my race too often. I was the only black kid in my class, basically. The academy I went to for my Sophomore-Senior years was like 90% African-American. Everyone was talking about Lil Wayne', sneakers, and smoking blunts, and talking all this slang. And alot of them took the metro to school, but my parents always drove me. I literally went to Urban Dictionary to look up some of the words they were using because I was so clueless. I was SO white back then.
My parents are West Indian. And for those of you who are West Indian, you know that Blacks from the Carribean and America have two very different mindsets, especially when it comes to behavior and education. Success is an important aspect of our culture. So, I'm comfortable around West Indian Blacks, but even till this day, I have trouble making close friends with alot of African-Americans.
I couldn't be street or tell you anything about it to save my life, honestly. But I like who I am, I'm proud to be Black, but I just grew up in a household with a different culture.
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Which islands are you from?
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Member Since: 5/17/2010
Posts: 21,708
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Originally posted by NE.
I used to get it alot back in the day. Even this hot white bitch at summer camp told me I wasn't the "typical black guy", which made me mad because I was skeemin' on her...but that's another story.
Anyways, I grew up attending predominately white private schools until 10th grade, so I didn't have much exposure to other kids of my race too often. I was the only black kid in my class, basically. The academy I went to for my Sophomore-Senior years was like 90% African-American. Everyone was talking about Lil Wayne', sneakers, and smoking blunts, and talking all this slang. And alot of them took the metro to school, but my parents always drove me. I literally went to Urban Dictionary to look up some of the words they were using because I was so clueless. I was SO white back then.
My parents are West Indian. And for those of you who are West Indian, you know that Blacks from the Carribean and America have two very different mindsets, especially when it comes to behavior and education. Success is an important aspect of our culture. So, I'm comfortable around West Indian Blacks, but even till this day, I have trouble making close friends with alot of African-Americans.
I couldn't be street or tell you anything about it to save my life, honestly. But I like who I am, I'm proud to be Black, but I just grew up in a household with a different culture.
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This is so true. My parents are Trinidadian and they're main purpose in coming to America was seeing that I get the best education I possibly could. So bringing home poor grades and slacking in school was NEVER an option.
And my parents, who were both immigrants, were very big on fully mastering the English language so coming home using slang and "hip-hop lingo" was a no-no.
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Member Since: 11/18/2011
Posts: 7,791
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Originally posted by RichGirlPlanet
Like I said, keep it cute on Shakee.
I do not want to have to drag you by your teta's outside of 7-Eleven.
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Member Since: 5/21/2009
Posts: 11,151
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Originally posted by iamvladd
Which islands are you from?
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Barbados and Trinidad.
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Member Since: 11/27/2011
Posts: 1,890
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Originally posted by Glamazon
waiT
I was raised on Grove st apt #6 so a bitch know not to **** with it.
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Member Since: 11/18/2008
Posts: 60,607
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Originally posted by NE.
I used to get it alot back in the day. Even this hot white bitch at summer camp told me I wasn't the "typical black guy", which made me mad because I was skeemin' on her...but that's another story.
Anyways, I grew up attending predominately white private schools until 10th grade, so I didn't have much exposure to other kids of my race too often. I was the only black kid in my class, basically. The academy I went to for my Sophomore-Senior years was like 90% African-American. Everyone was talking about Lil Wayne', sneakers, and smoking blunts, and talking all this slang. And alot of them took the metro to school, but my parents always drove me. I literally went to Urban Dictionary to look up some of the words they were using because I was so clueless. I was SO white back then.
My parents are West Indian. And for those of you who are West Indian, you know that Blacks from the Carribean and America have two very different mindsets, especially when it comes to behavior and education. Success is an important aspect of our culture. So, I'm comfortable around West Indian Blacks, but even till this day, I have trouble making close friends with alot of African-Americans.
I couldn't be street or tell you anything about it to save my life, honestly. But I like who I am, I'm proud to be Black, but I just grew up in a household with a different culture.
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I'm such an illiterate mess. I didn't know blacks from the Caribbean were called west Indian.
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Member Since: 11/5/2009
Posts: 8,096
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Originally posted by ****y On Venus
This is so true. My parents are Trinidadian and they're main purpose in coming to America was seeing that I get the best education I possibly could. So ignoring class and not going to school was NEVER an option.
And my parents were very big on fully mastering the language, so coming home using slang and different lingo was a no-no.
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We got a new manager a few months ago, and she was born and raised in Trinidad, lived in Brooklyn, and she came to Canada (she's not a permanent res). Oh my god... Working with her was, let's say.. "She kept it real". Every time she asked me to do something at work and I say "I'll do it in two minutes, I'm just going to......" "EXCUSE ME BOY, YOU WANNA SAY THAT AGAIN" and I was like Basically the staff at our store did not treat her like a manager, she was treated as a Queen. She was actually funny because she was so "real" and she would always cuss us out. Like if we talked back to her she would always tell us if we ever did that in Trinidad we would have got whacked in the face
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Member Since: 1/8/2011
Posts: 27,650
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Originally posted by NE.
Barbados and Trinidad.
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Haiti
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