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Topic: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
pepinno
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Forum: Women's Interests -- Men Welcome Posted: Mon 07 Sep 2009 17:00 Subject: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
| Spain's most circulated newspaper "EL PAIS" carries a piece on Michelle Obama by its correspondent journalist in USA. (Warning: this media traditionally has a liberal and social-democrat bia ... |
Topic: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
pepinno
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Forum: Women's Interests -- Men Welcome Posted: Thu 03 Sep 2009 17:08 Subject: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
| Well, a Presidential First Lady can choose to stay out of the public light (like Zapatero's wife does, she is hardly known) or to board the Air Force One (which she has no "need" to do) or t ... |
Topic: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
pepinno
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Forum: Women's Interests -- Men Welcome Posted: Thu 03 Sep 2009 02:28 Subject: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
Let me say it again, click on the MSN link and read the MAJORITY of response that say the opposite of what you say
So what? I do not know what bias MSN may have, so I don't know what kind of informat ... |
Topic: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
pepinno
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Forum: Women's Interests -- Men Welcome Posted: Thu 03 Sep 2009 02:07 Subject: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
And I still don't think you get it, so far here your the only one who thinks she is out of place
time to make some changes and I think along with the majority of people throught cybersapce and real ... |
Topic: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
pepinno
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Forum: Women's Interests -- Men Welcome Posted: Thu 03 Sep 2009 01:18 Subject: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
| When this "issue" first came up I thought it was a joke. There are two wars, a recession, and extremely important legislation under consideration and what gets talked about is Michelle Obam ... |
Topic: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
pepinno
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Forum: Women's Interests -- Men Welcome Posted: Wed 02 Sep 2009 20:14 Subject: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
| Modern women who are not part of some aging remnant of feudal aristocracy are flexible. Yes, we all adhere to certain rules, but most people understand that wearing casual clothing is acceptable in c ... |
Topic: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
pepinno
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Forum: Women's Interests -- Men Welcome Posted: Wed 02 Sep 2009 06:59 Subject: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
She's not going to a presidential tea, she's at the grand canyon? Is she supposed to have on heels?
Sorry, straw man argument.
There are many kind of shoes in between sneakers and heels, and you ... |
Topic: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
pepinno
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Forum: Women's Interests -- Men Welcome Posted: Tue 01 Sep 2009 20:28 Subject: First lady’s shorts draw some long, hard looks |
From the photo, I think that she's tastefully dressed.
True
I ask the question, what is she supposed to have on while vacationing the Grand Canyon?
Not so tastefully dressed, in my opinion.
W ... |
Topic: From Acosta To Zapatero: Hispanic Names have deep roots |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Mon 31 Aug 2009 23:42 Subject: Re: Nice article |
| I would like to comment that not only the last names are old but that all the common Hispanic last names have their own heraldic shield, which are very old as well. However, there are several version ... |
Topic: Black Conquistadors, Part 2 |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Mon 31 Aug 2009 23:18 Subject: Black Conquistadors, Part 2 |
| As far as I have been able to determine, the term "conquistador" has been used by different people at different times and places to denote the supreme leaders of expeditions to the New World ... |
Topic: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Thu 23 Jul 2009 19:44 Subject: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
Oh, please. So you have a National Identity Card and then if need be you check that your name and card-ID in any other document matches your Card's name and card-ID, and that the Card's photo matche ... |
Topic: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Wed 22 Jul 2009 20:41 Subject: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
As to identification, not all documents have photographs, and in a country as ethnically varied as the United States race is a useful indicator of appearance.
Oh, please. So you have a National Ident ... |
Topic: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Wed 22 Jul 2009 19:27 Subject: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
That definition is quite funny in a strange Monty-Python way: "we define the Hispanic Race as blah-blah-bla, regardless of race". That's just hilarious!
By the way, by reading these ... |
Topic: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Wed 22 Jul 2009 18:24 Subject: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
| Other federal agencies use similar definitions. For example, The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the executive agency that investigates discrimination and negotiates settlements under 42 U.S. ... |
Topic: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Tue 21 Jul 2009 19:06 Subject: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
| Not really true. In Spain "Latinos" are the peoples from the Lazio (a.k.a Latium), which is a region of Italy, and the adjective "latino" is used to denote all things coming from t ... |
Topic: Black Conquistadors |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 23:15 Subject: Black Conquistadors |
| Exactly. And to take it to a farther extreme, we only have accounts of the great Egyptian Pharaohs and some important priests, but rarely of the common folk, so are we to not consider them Egyptian?
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Topic: Do light skinned Latinos normally approach black persons ? |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 23:04 Subject: Do light skinned Latinos normally approach black persons ? |
| Without pictures of werta it's impossible to say for sure, but my guess is that those "Latin-looking" people (whatever that is) think she is Cuban, and therefore a Spanish speaking person. |
Topic: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
pepinno
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Forum: Latin America Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 22:17 Subject: Question about Latin American vs Spanish culture |
| My experience is that in Spain, he would be viewed as "Latino." Spain has received significant immigration from Latin America, and all Latin Americans are referred to there as Latinos-regard ... |
Topic: New Members, Please Read This |
pepinno
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Forum: Site Management Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 19:04 Subject: New Members, Please Read This |
Hello everybody!
I'm from Spain, and I find these forums interesting.
My race is european, but when I visited the USA I was forced to identify as white, which sounded stupid to me: I'm not a col ... |
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