From Argentina pt 2

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Faux Paus So, I hit my first social faux pau in Argentina. I was at a Brazilian bar with mis amigos, some of whom were brazilian, and we started talking to some girlies when we were in line. Since it was my Brazillian friend talking to the girls, I thought they were Brazilian girls (I should have listened to the language better). One of them was a blonde, another was a bleach blonde, the other was a superhot brunette (I´ll post pics later). Since there were two blondes talking to my brazilian friend, I thought the girls where brazilian. However, when I was talking to some kids who were asking me who I was here with, I happened to call them Brazilian. The real blonde got super-pissed at me. I can understand, a frenchie doesn´t want to be called english. Or call somebody from Whales English and see what happens. However, in my defense, Buenos Aires is very homozygous...very "white" for south america (if you call italian white)--you can tell if someone isn´t from Argentina. So, it's like the jewish gene, the blonde hair, blue eye is recessive, but it exists. So I call this girl braziliana and she gets super pissed. She says to me, "Soy una porteña...I'm white." Or, in English, I´m from Buenos Aires, I'm white. Funny how relative race is. She did look white because of the blonde hair. But from what I have seen, blonde hair is more Brasilian than Argentine. If a sterotypical argentine woman was in the states, people wouldnt call her "white" (as in WASP). Anyways, she was so pissed and would´'t talk to me the rest of the night. Fuck it. I sorta feel bad, because I don't like being an asshole to anyone. however, I'll never see her again. Her email is leticiacangola80@ Fuck, should have looked at her email first.... Leo S.