Perhaps via this medium it can be construed as whining...but if you ever meet a handsome, blue-eyed cibaeño with a dashing style who's somewhere in his late 20s to early 30s I suggest you don't use the word beaner in his presence because he wouildn't give a damn as to how old the person hurling the insult is. His retribution will be swift regardless.

Well we all got our favorites out, so may as well switch gears to what are you reading now? Even if not DR related, curious to see . Here are the ones I'm juggling, I have ADD syndrome and can never plow through only one at a time...



Crowds and Power by Elias Cannetti
When money dies: The nightmare of the Weimar collapse by Adam Fergusson
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

you are an exaggeratedly over sensitive jerk ciby .....


Beaner is a slang term, widely regarded as inapropriate, that refers to people of Mexican descent or, more broadly, Mestizos.[1][2][3] The term originates from the prevalence of frijoles pintos and other beans in Mexican food.[3][4]

According to The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the word was first seen in print in 1965, although the term has reportedly been in use at least since the 1940s (perhaps having evolved from previous slurs such as "bean-eater" and "bean-bandit" that were in use since as far back as the 1910s.) [1]

Although the word is generally considered pejorative, its usage is not always overtly offensive and can be fairly benign depending on the context (similar to the term "frog" for a French person.) Though perhaps once considered strictly offensive, it appears that the term may be going through a phase of melioration, where the negative connotation of an ethnic slur is "reclaimed" by those it is directed against and used in a neutral or even positive manner.[1]

Other ethnics slurs based on food include "Curry-muncher" (East Indians) and "Frog" (French)......and also Jibarito .......Ciby the ingenue so sensitive get over it

Say what you want, think what you want. But I've already warned you. Be very careful with who you use that type of language around. I can assure you that not everyone will see the humor in it that you seem to find nor will everyone take it as lightly as you seem to expect them too. You might end up with more than just hurt feelings. I know your type. Your generation disgusts me. I can't wait for your kind to pass from the face of this earth. You guys screwed it up enough and your contemporaries with real clout and power are still in the process of doing so.

I'm currently reading:

Historia del Caribe, by Frank Moya Pons. It's an interesting take about how despite our being from diverse cultural backgrounds, there's one thing unifying all caribbean countries: our insidious economic history centered on the sugar plantation, one of its main thesis being about the harmful consequences that the independence process of the Netherlands against the Spanish Crown had for the sugar industry in Hispaniola during the late XVI century. It also explains the process that followed the displacement of the different european metropolis by the rising american imperialism during the XIXth and XXth centuries.

Empire, by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. A book by what GC would call "the grassy knoll school of thought" about how the world empires and capitalism had being (unconsciouly) helping in the construction of a single, unified world government.

you are a pompous stuffed shirt from the left end of the grassy knoll ......you should tell these thing to your father he is the one that screwed up your head and started you on your way to these complexes

That Moya Pons sounds good. I've stated on here a few times that from my reading of history sugar had a truly regrettable effect on the islands .... but on the whole DR is one of the places where it left the least mark, especially by comparison with Haiti, Cuba, etc. Would you say F. Moya Pons history supports that notion Lautaro?

Absolutely. The war between Spain and the Netherlands, along with the entrance of Brazil into the world's sugar market and the discoveries of the gold and silver mines in Mexico and Peru, would effectively kill the sugar industry in Hispaniola by the end of the XVIth century. In fact, this industry would appear in the island again from 1710 onwards (in french Saint Domingue), and after the haitian revolution killed it, it would only appear again (on our country) in the late XIXth century, when the cuban exiles (fleeing from Cuba's independence war) and later the american marines, practically revived the industry.

Goulet, you would not be fit to shine my father's shoes. My father has never supposrted murderers or has he ever resorted to insulting another people. If you had been half the man my father is you might've been worthy of being called a human being or even a man for that matter.

You must have cried when you learned the expression " Like father like son "