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Pro-Trump ad uses Latin to target Latino voters
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trumpus ite domum
I didn't know Latins were big Opera enjoyers.
It’s the webbrowser of their choice.
Google says the bottom line is Czech. 🤷♀️🤣
I'm not American, but I'm really surprised that some Americans don't know anything about Spanish. I mean, there are a lot of places in the U.S. with Spanish names, and it's easy to encounter Hispanic/Mexican culture if you live in places like L.A.
The US is massive and not nearly as well-mixed as people believe. If you don't happen to live in a spanish-heavy area, it's like a Russian that doesn't know Spanish - obviously some do, but I'm not at all surprised by those who don't.
in terms of land-area, the us is closer to Europe than any single European country.
Imagine, for example, being surprised that Catalonians are unfamiliar with Sami, or Swedes being unfamiliar with Maltese.
Population wise, too. Minnesota is different than California, or even our neighbors (north and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa, Canada to the north,).
Hell. The Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) are very different and we can lob insults across the river.
...so the fact that the US is large somehow explains how that sign got through its entire chain of production and deployment without anyone realising that Latino people don't speak Latin?
No. it explains this:
I’m not American, but I’m really surprised that some Americans don’t know anything about Spanish.
having a lot of Latinos in one place doesn't mean there's a lot elsewhere, or that the people who made the sign are even anywhere close to familiar with any sort of Latino culture... for example, in Minnesota, there's a large number of Puerto Ricans in St Paul. if you drove forty minutes out west, you're not going to see that. Same goes with the Somali influence in Cedar Riverside, or the Hmong neighborhoods.
as for the sign... the people who actually made the sign don't give a flying rat's ass what's on it. A client sends them a picture or something, they print it, and send it out. If anyone even actually looked at it. It could have been an entirely automated service like vistaprint or whoever.
its like the bakers that put "just say 'Happy Birthday' in rainbow icing letters" on the cake. they're not paid enough to care what they're actually printing.
Which means the only people who probably who really needed to fail to understand the distinction is... the people that ordered it. And when you're talking about somebody who probably hung that up on their fence... there's not a "chain" of people involved.
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Caecilius est in horto
Are implying doctors who wear hardhats can't be latino?
As a Brazilian, I kinda see what's going on: "Você consegue me entender?", to which it's often replied "Sorry, I don't speak Spanish". Portuguese is not Spanish, galera!
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2024
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