A culture cannot be represented by certain people.

[Jongbong]

its hard to fight stereotypes like that... there's just no winning. venting helps... but not much it just sucks and nothing can really change that, just try to think positive.

[horror business]

I'm curious as to those who say they're conservative yet their on a cannabis website. I would see that as being pretty liberal or at least open minded. Or are you conservative on some issues and not others? It makes no sense to me...

[Spoken Word]

^that's the funny part.
Im really in the middle.. a little more to the left but around the middle. i respect both conservative and liberal type messages. and of course disagree with aspects of both as well.

like i know if the people i encountered last night really sat down and talked to me with respect, we'd have a lot in common.
what's sad is that they judge before even talking to me.

i was taking my mother and her new boyfriend(who happends to be of german descent) out for a drink and to talk to them, you know.. get a feeling for their relationship.
not dictating, but it is my mother.
i wanted to get to know him before i passed judgement

and this happends.

it was pretty ironic but now i have respect for him on a whole other level.
so like i said, it's fine..
shit happends. lol

[Matt the Funk]

Storm Crow gave some great words of wisdom. Judge people on their words and actions, not on their sking color,ethnicity,etc....And I have to agree with friendowl.....this area is just a melting pot for different cultures.

[fasterspider]

The South Americans and Mexicans that I know would probably beat your ass for calling them Latino or Hispanic because they are neither.
My best friend in the world besides my wife is Edgar from Guatamala and speaks Spanish fluently but is not Hispanic at all, he is Guatamalan.
A Hispanic person is a person from Spain and Latin is a dead language that was used by the Catholic church to oppress people.
The words Hispanic and Latino are insults to the Spanish speaking people I know that are proud of their true heritage.
When the Spaniards got here 500 years ago, they raped and pillaged, murdered and infested the native peoples with new deadly diseases along with wiping out whole new to them races of peoples lifestyle and making them Christains.
Columbians are not Hispanics either, they are Columbians that just so happen to speak Spanish because of an invasion 500 years ago by a bunch of greedy oppressive Christian fanatics.

[eg420ne]

i have to lock up my shit good or these stealing mexicans will take it all, dem bastards stoled my spare tire from my truck....i mean come-on stealing a spare tire, oh yeah my neighborhood infested with crackheads, and you know where to buy it whenever you see 4 or more pits in the yard...and then they hang their clothes on the fences, thats sooo shitty....:S2:

Does anyone here live in one of the border towns of texas/mexico......I can say they try to make good, but its overrun by corrupt people all around............drugs are rampant, murders are up, home invasion's are common now.........i dont even buy my cannabis here.....its sad my 73yr old aunt knows where to buy drugs, this place is shitty(im not talking about cannabis.)and its these other drugs that make cannabis look bad.................and idiots dont care...........like they say, every race has em....................

[Spoken Word]

The South Americans and Mexicans that I know would probably beat your ass for calling them Latino or Hispanic because they are neither.
My best friend in the world besides my wife is Edgar from Guatamala and speaks Spanish fluently but is not Hispanic at all, he is Guatamalan.
A Hispanic person is a person from Spain and Latin is a dead language that was used by the Catholic church to oppress people.
The words Hispanic and Latino are insults to the Spanish speaking people I know that are proud of their true heritage.
When the Spaniards got here 500 years ago, they raped and pillaged, murdered and infested the native peoples with new deadly diseases along with wiping out whole new to them races of peoples lifestyle and making them Christains.
Columbians are not Hispanics either, they are Columbians that just so happen to speak Spanish because of an invasion 500 years ago by a bunch of greedy oppressive Christian fanatics.

lol thanks for the ColOmbian history lesson. at least you tried but too bad you are terribly wrong.
Colombians, like Puerto Ricans and Domincans, have an uneven mix of black, native and white(spanish) features.
Unlike mexicans and central americans or peru, bolivia, ecuador where you see dominant "native" features. If I had to guess it's because of the vast mayan and Incan(and MANY other)civilizations. But it's all relative because everyone is so different.

Your friends wouldn't "beat my ass" either(that's for sure lol), because I wouldn't call them "hispanics". I used the word "hispanic" because I was typing in English and it's how the U.S. classifies anyone that speaks spanish. Some central american countries get offended at calling them "mexican" too, most likely your "Guatalamalan" friend. But that's just misplaced pride.

I rather not make this an issue because it's stupid to argue my culture against someone that's talking about shit they heard.

The reply was reffered towards me and let me tell you....
I don't know what your intention was but all you accomplished was negative.
you come off kind of edgy and I don't appreciate it. besides, half the shit you said is "off".
so before you coment on someones culture, be sure of what comes out of your mouth, you might offend someone.

[Demeter]

That's pretty cool, Demeter. It's like saying that you take power away from your emotions when you express them, you accept that the anger and frustration is a part of you and "allow" it to manifest in a form other than denial or bitterness. And that's the opposite of racism.

Beautifully expressed, my friend!

[BallTillufall]

Don't trip man, everyones racist in some ways, can't really do shit about it. Be proud of where ur from, o yea and if ur town is full of crackheads who ever is getting their shit stolen, put what u need inside, or tie up ur firestones don't blame it on mexicans haha idiot.

[fasterspider]

I used the word "hispanic" because I was typing in English and it's how the U.S. classifies anyone that speaks spanish.

If my reply to your post offended you or you took it negatively, I apologize. It was not meant to be offensive.

I stand alone in this world.

If the Spaniards had not come to this side of the world with their Christian ideologies, you and I may never have been born and Columbians would be speaking some native South American tongue instead of one of the many dialects of Spanish.