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1) If you have ever been hit by a chancleta.

2) If you grew up scared by something called "El Cuco."

3) If others tell you to stop screaming when you are really just talking.

4) If you light a candle to Virgin Mary on the night of the lotto drawing.

5) If you use your lips to point something out.

6) If you constantly refer to cereal as "con fleys".

7) If your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you for dinner, even if it's a one bedroom apartment.

8) If you can dance merengue, cumbia, or salsa without music.

9) If you use "manteca" instead of olive oil and can't figure out why your butt is getting bigger.

10) If you call your sneakers "tenis".

11) If you have at least thirty cousins, not including loco Julio working at "Don Pipo's".

12) If you can't imagine anyone not liking spicy food.

13) If you are in a five passenger car with seven people in it and a person is shouting "subanse, todavia caben!"

14) If whenever you feel under the weather, you compulsively dab on some "vapor rub" all over your chest and inside your nostrils.

15) Your mom packs your "lonchera" every day even though you've just turned thirty-two.

16) If you call the North Americans "gringos", including Canadians, and call all Asian people "chinos".

17) If you just don't get tired of the so called "sopitas".

18) If you don't think Jennifer Lopez is hot, "she's just another bitch with luck".

19) If your favorite heroes were "El Chapulin Colorado", or "Cantinflas".
 

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Usted son ticos?


Esto es para compartir con todos ustedes los aspectos
que conforman nuestra idiosincrasia costarricense, y
también para que cada uno se auto evalúe y tome un poco
más de conciencia del nicho que ocupa en nuestra
sociedad.
Que los disfruten y aprendan bastante.


USTED SABE QUE ES TICO SI:

Culpa a los ricos de su situación económica.
Culpa a los pobres del crimen.
Culpa a los liberacionistas y a los mariachis por casi
todo lo demás.
Culpa a los "hijueputas gringos" por todo el resto.
Tiene más fe en un asaltante que en un policía.
Tiene más fe en un policía que en un sacerdote.
Tiene más fe en el alcalde que en el presidente.
Disfrutas tomar cerveza en cantidades industriales y
siempre es un buen momento o hay un buen pretexto para
echarse una.
El lunes es para la goma; el martes las muchachas no
pagan; el miércoles hay 2 x 1; el jueves es un viernes
chiquitito; el viernes es de party; el sábado es de
baile, y el domingo es de antes, durante y después del
fútbol.
Come tostadas, mondongo, morcilla, chicharrones,
etc.... pero cree que las hamburguesas no son
saludables.
A todos les llama "compa", "primo", "compadre"... pero
a su verdadero hermano, le llama "playo".

USTED SABE QUE ES LIMONENSE SI:

Considera normal andar armado.
Pasa por chepe en su Nissan Sunny modelo 72, con el
radio a todo volumen con música ragga y cada vez que
acelera hace un escándalo para que crean que su carro
es muy rápido.

USTED SABE QUE ES GUANACASTECO SI:

Habla como nica.
Dice "pa", y todo los años sufre porque la choza se le
inunda ahí por Filadelfia y Belén.
Dice que va para La Capital cuando va para Chepe.
Cree que Chepe es una cuidad grande.

USTED SABE QUE ES CARTAGINÉS SI:

Te crees "moderno" porque hablas de "vos".
Es excepcionalmente supersticioso.
Cree que Cartago podría ser capital y cada año que va
a ser campeón.
Dice que el TEC es mejor que la U.

USTED SABE QUE ES ALAJUELENSE SI:

Cuando le preguntan que donde vive dice: en La Liga.
Siempre que tiene la oportunidad aclara que el
aeropuerto internacional esta en Alajuela y no en SJO
como dice en todos los tiquetes de avión.
Tiene un palo de mangos en el patio del chante.
Si viene de por ahí por San Ramón, Palmares o Grecia
habla como el Chunche.
Cree que Alajuela es una cuidad grande e independiente
aunque tenga que irse en lata todos los días para la U
en chepe y pasen la mitad del año sin agua y sin
drenaje de aguas negras.

USTED SABE QUE ES PUNTARENENSE SI:

Se autodenominan El Puerto.
Cree que El Puerto va a volver a ser campeón algún día
(¡por favor!).
Va de vacaciones a Chepe.
Hace excursiones familiares para ir a ver los
cruceros.

USTED SABE QUE ES HEREDIANO SI:

Se cree mejor que los del resto del país y le tiene
lástima con asco a los de San José.
Dicen que son la cuidad de las flores.
Se enorgullece de El Palacio de los Deportes.
Los Domingos va a comprar helados de sorbetera a San
Joaquín.

USTED SABE QUE ES SAN JOSEFINO SI:

Insulta y se burla de los que no viven en chepe.
Va de paseo al puerto como gran cosa.
Si es liguista dice que el equipo de La Liga es
realmente de San José pero que fue un error. y que
Saprissa es de Nicaragua.
 

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1) You clap when the plane lands

2) You get in the elevator, before letting he other people off the elevator...
 
Just too funny for being so true!!!! LMFAO!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Gringo,

That's the single most hillarious post I have read in quite a long while. Posted by a 'gringo'???? ROFLMFAO!!!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Too bad it is in tico spanish, so it really makes no sense to translate it, for others to read. But it should be the "latino post of the weeek" /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>1) You clap when the plane lands <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Or when you stop by Mickey D's right before catching a plane, so you can get something to go to take 'en el avion'!!!!

????????? This is too f u c k i n g funny...!!!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
 

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The ideal Sunday is to stand on the outside of the airport, eat a "copo" and watch the planes land!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
 

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Walk, I've been here so long (5 years) I'm almost a tico /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
 

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"2) You get in the elevator, before letting he other people off the elevator... "

Or you wait 10 minutes to get on the elevator to go down one floor and go all the way to the top before coming back down to your floor to get off.
 

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3) You leave the wax on your car for three days to get a better shine.
4) You have a CD hanging from the rear view mirror.
5) You SPEED UP to a red light to ensure the guy at the trying to get out of the gas station must wait.
6) You get sensitive when us uhhhhh, United States citizens, call ourselves Americans, but you have no problems calling us "Gringos" (Racist), and all Asians are "Chinos" (Racist).
 

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Just curious,

I kind of look at "Gringo" as racist only depending on the intonation the speaker uses since nobody really knows where the word actually comes from any way.

It bothers me more when a latino corrects my saying I'm American as "No, you're North American". I'm not Canadian or Mexican!

What do you think?
 
I just read this to my mother (who is Cubana) and she really cant stop laughing. LMFAO!!!
 

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It is really funny, what made laugh the most was the chancleta thing! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
 
Seriously. I found that the funniest of them all too! My mother used to throw her dusty chancletas at me all the time.


I dont know where you are from, but it is Wednesday night here in New York City. Lotto drawings are every Wednesday and Saturday. I have my $30,000,000 ticket and my Virgin Mary on hand. Wish me luck (seriously!).
 

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little late to wish you luck, but I hope you lit some "velitas" (candles) for the lotto and won some money. If you did, send me some!!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
 
Two numbers on a $20 Quick pick. Shit out of luck. Maybe I'll try Santeria next time! LMFAO!
 

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LMFAO!!!!! santeria should work, try voodoo also! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
 

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Kaya, the word "gringo" comes from the Mexican vs US war. Since the North Americans were dressed in green, the Mexican used to say, "green go home". As they said this quickly it became, gringo. Hence the name, gringo.

So in it's origin it was definately used in a derogatory manner. But ticos do not use it as an insult.
 

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I was waiting for someone to throw that one out there. That explanation makes perfect sense except for the fact that the U.S. soldiers wore blue at that time.

Others say it's because our money is green and so the Mexicans said "Green go".

The thing is that the word at actually dates much further back. Websters dictionary says it comes from the alteration in Spanish of a Greek word with a Latin root. Here's a paste direct from Webster.com

Etymology: Spanish, alteration of griego Greek, stranger, from Latin Graecus Greek
Date: 1849

The word Gringo also appears in Spain around the time of the inquisitions, it was used to refer to Irish Monks living in Spain that could not pronounce Spanish correctly.
The etymology of the word is still considered to be a mystery by most.

That's why I said it all depends on the intonation, and to say flat out, Ticos don't use it as an insult, is incorrect. Some do some don't there's racism everywhere. I've heard it used in a racist sense first hand, many times as a matter of fact over the last eleven years. All the Che Guevara and communism fans here definately use it derogatorily.
 
WOW!!! Finally I know. Tonite I will sleep tight, with my curiosity satisfied.

BTW, are you gringo? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
 

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