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	parlance 2003-09-26 06:44 am UTC (link)
	No, he's not! He's BLACK! He's just ashamed of who he is. facepalm (Reply to this)(Thread)

	dawnswalker 2003-09-26 07:16 am UTC (link)
	Exactly. gets out the Gene Pool Bleach (Reply to this)(Parent)

	leopard_lady 2003-09-26 06:49 am UTC (link)
	sigh I stopped reading about halfway through...I was seriously waiting for the Hitler remarks to come. (They may well have--I had to stop reading for the stupidity.) Who gives a shit where whose grandparents are from? People whose parents are from different cultures are more attractive anyway! (See also: Tiger Woods, Shakira, my ex boyfriend...) Asshats. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	lampbane 2003-09-26 07:11 am UTC (link)
	Must... not... join... wank! Having a hispanic mother and white father makes me very sensitive to the subject. (And I'm white... I look like my icon somewhat) People whose parents are from different cultures are more attractive anyway! Agreed. My boyfriend is Cherokee/Italian/Puerto Rican/Welsh... and damn. Yummy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: leopard_lady 2003-09-26 07:12 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, my ex is Columbian on his dad's side, and Scotish/Irish/Shawnee on his mom's side. He's yummy as well. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ipomoea 2003-09-26 07:04 am UTC (link)
	Ok, so lemme see if I got it straight: What they're saying is Salma Hayek shouldn't have played Frida Kahlo because her father isn't Mexican, never mind the fact that Kahlo's father wasn't either. And there were too many non-Mexicans playing non-Mexicans in that movie, darnit! And anyone who disagrees with them is a filthy racist, right? Bitch, please. (Reply to this)

	rann 2003-09-26 07:16 am UTC (link)
	"You ever notice that the more Tiger wins, the less black he gets?" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	heyoka 2003-09-26 08:22 am UTC (link)
	Wanda Sykes! <3<3<3<3 (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2003-09-26 09:51 am UTC (link)
	WANDA! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	folk 2003-09-26 08:25 am UTC (link)
	Yes, because Mexican is to Mexico as Arabic is to...umm...wait... Cretins. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	backfromspace 2003-09-26 09:26 am UTC (link)
	...Araby? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	folk 2003-09-26 10:17 am UTC (link)
	Is that my cue to make a bad pun about sheikhing in my shoes? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	backfromspace 2003-09-26 09:27 am UTC (link)
	Frida was an amazing movie, Salma looks a hell of a lot like Frida in makeup on a good day, and Salma's fucking hot. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the movie. (Reply to this)

	oxydosic 2003-09-26 03:16 pm UTC (link)
	I have more shocking news.. psst...the guy who played Gimli in Lord of the Rings? Not a real Dwarf! Damn racists, somebody call the union! I bet those guys weren't real Hobbits either! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	seldomnaughty 2003-09-29 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	Heee. I am crackeded up. snicker (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2003-09-26 05:43 pm UTC (link)
	Forget the race thing, they shouldn't have given her a damn unibrow. (Yes- in her paintings she is depicted that way, but did not actually have one.) /art major wankage (Reply to this)(Thread)

	pipssister 2003-09-26 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	Really? I know she didn't have one when she was young, but she seemed like she had one in later years (at least from pictures I saw). And, actually, Salma grew a mustache for the role too, but she was lit so well it wasn't visible. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2003-09-27 04:14 am UTC (link)
	I dunno- I'm just repeating what an art prof told me. He was wanking on and on about how people portray themselves in self portraits, and that came up. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	conchoidal 2003-09-26 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	this is a prime example of people who have been hand fed by the media. Get out of your damn house and view the world with your own eyes... some history study would help to. (Reply to this)

(Anonymous)
2003-09-26 10:05 pm UTC (link)

Well, I am Mexican... and here the national wank was "She's not UGLY enough to play Frida Kahlo! She's too damn pretty! They should have hired Ofelia Medina to play Frida, she's the only one who deserves it! >_<"
Of course, they forgot that Ofelia Medina, who once magnificently played Frida Kahlo on an art-ish movie named "Naturaleza Viva" is way too old to play her again...

Not to mention the whole "Frida and Diego were Mexican whythehellis the movie spoken in ENGLISH!" argument. Or the "Diego Rivera is not UGLY/FAT enough!" one.

My countrymen can be soooo wanky whenever a national myth is reinterpreted... ^^UUU

-Altair
astrumetluna at yahoo.com

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	(Anonymous) 2003-09-27 02:05 pm UTC (link)
	She is not Mexica, despite her mother being Mexica, because her father is of lebanese descent, how dare you to contradict me and I don't care for the opinions of non-Mexica anyway and and she didn't hired Mexican actors for the lead roles and she is not Mexica and that movie sold the Mexican culture.... vomits (Reply to this)(Thread)

	goaheadandhitme 2003-09-27 03:35 pm UTC (link)
	Boy, that person sure sounds like a Mexi-can't. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pipssister 2003-09-28 05:58 am UTC (link)
	And yet there were also a bunch of Mexicans telling him that he was a dumbass. (Reply to this)(Parent)

*ahem*

dana_kujan
2003-09-28 01:23 am UTC (link)

::adjusts spectacles on bridge of nose::

For the record, only the language is "Arabic," the adjective is "Arab."

If these folks are going to be such hair-splitting xenophobes, they could at least use the proper words in grammatically correct sentences.

And Lebanese (adjectival form of Lebanon) is always capitalized; however, since Arabic script has no capitalization, I'll let that one slide.

Idjits!

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	Re: ahem folk 2003-10-01 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	Hurrah, a fellow language pedant! Reminds me of the old joke, "It's ironic? It must be from Iran! IT'S TEH TERORRORRORRISTS!!!!!1ONE" (Reply to this)(Parent)