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Memories of a Foreigner

Ni de aqui ni de allá | Not from here nor from there | By Yeeliberto

Why did you nickname me?

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The way you look or anything you do makes you get a nickname, either you get with it or you hate it. They reflect something peculiar of you but sometimes you don’t want to be reminded of it. Usually your classmates are the ones they put you the nickname, but something curios for me when living in the USA is that people asked you if they could call you that way.

That was very different from Mexico when people start asking you a way you don’t want to be called, while in the USA, because many reason like getting sued for many reasons, even one time I was asked if I could be called “Texas” because a shirt a brought to Team Sports class, they even thought I was from that place also because the different way I talked and looked.

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Comments

Mabudife 29. November 2008, 19:18

Hey Texas, how you doing...?
es lo que podría sonar... P:

SqueakeyCat 8. December 2008, 04:55

some nicknames hurt. but most of the time, they are meant to be fun or funny. to be on the safe side, always ask if it is meant to be funny, rude or hurtful. if they don't tell you, then that means that they were being rude & hurtful to you with it.

yeeliberto 9. December 2008, 05:39

Yes, indeed I did not find it hurtful, nor did I like it but they remembered easier than my name so I let them used.

djosh_losh 9. December 2008, 19:31

In this USA people are afraid of everything...that is frightening...

Mabudife 9. December 2008, 20:31

scarish indeed...

yeeliberto 10. December 2008, 02:36

I was even scared of me...:lol: :whistle:

SqueakeyCat 10. December 2008, 03:30

yes, djosh, there are a lot of things that ppl are afraid of here

djosh_losh 10. December 2008, 13:07

It's just a nicknname for God's sake ... :D

yeeliberto 10. December 2008, 14:45

Yes, and people are afraid, like things are a lot bigger in Texas...:whistle: :yes: :lol:

SqueakeyCat 10. December 2008, 15:12

lol

djosh_losh 10. December 2008, 17:34

Like guns I suppose P:

yeeliberto 11. December 2008, 04:40

Yes and trucks and food and... many many things.

SqueakeyCat 12. December 2008, 14:41

i dislike guns, only bcuz i was raised by a father that had his own ammunition shop in the garage. he filled the bullets not only for his own guns, but for half the state's sheriffs depts as well

yeeliberto 12. December 2008, 14:54

But the good thing is that he did not fill up the guns of the bad guys like drug dealers, :wink: :smile:

SqueakeyCat 12. December 2008, 15:15

for damn sure, i'd have moved out young had he done that

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