Cultural Question: Why do Non-Hispanic Americans Get offended by Hugs & Kisses as Greetings? (Miami: bill, location)

[miamihurricane555]

Originally Posted by sjnative

This is revelatory of the dominant mentality of the newly and, in so many cases, illegally-arrived. That mentality is "here we are, we're outbreeding you so you need to speak our language and do things our way now."

That's a hot-button issue in itself, but another issue is that you aren't willing to observe other people's cultures which, as you don't seem to tolerate, are different than your own.

I'll spell it out for you- in some other cultures, you don't kiss other people in public. At all.

Last, you may realize that your choice of words reveals your lack of respect for those of other races and cultures, e.g. white "girl" rather than "woman" or "young lady." Do you really refer to Latinas by the same term- "girl"- by which you refer to 5 year-olds? I didn't think so.

I think you're the one not showing tolerance or respect and that you're a member of an entire and growing demography who doesn't do so.

Not true I am completely fine with treating Americans(or any nationality) how they feel when i'm in THERE home or in a public place where the prevailing culture acts one way. when white,black, Asian,native american, or what other race or ethnicity you can think of comes to Miami. I expect them to adjust just as I had to adjust when I went to Virginia for the summer.

Originally Posted by unclealbertt

Oh please, relax. He just sounds like a young guy.

of which assumption you would be correct i'm 20.

Originally Posted by kmarc

She. You haven't been paying attention. But you're correct, the original post does come across as a tad naive, distressed and over-emotional. Immigrants are frequently homesick and disoriented in the US, this is not as happy a place for them as you'd think, which should be obvious by now. Most often the reason for being here is purely economic. For whatever reason, they can't go home, so they try to re-create the conditions of their homeland and it really doesn't work out for them. Gone are the days of the immigrants happy to be here, the prevailing sentiment is resentment, if anything the Boston tragedy should have taught us that.

Are you seriously trying to blame all immigrants for what happened in Boston? how dense can you get.

[Bread Girl]

Please keep your hands (and mouth) off of people that don't want you to touch them.

[thebigW]

Originally Posted by miamihurricane555

Not true I am completely fine with treating Americans(or any nationality) how they feel when i'm in THERE home or in a public place where the prevailing culture acts one way. when white,black, Asian,native american, or what other race or ethnicity you can think of comes to Miami. I expect them to adjust just as I had to adjust when I went to Virginia for the summer.


of which assumption you would be correct i'm 20.



Are you seriously trying to blame all immigrants for what happened in Boston? how dense can you get.

I hope you realize that Miami is located in America and therefore American.

[kmarc]

"Are you seriously trying to blame all immigrants for what happened in Boston? how dense can you get. "

Of course not. That is a very extreme example of an unhappy immigrant. Most unhappy immigrants express their frustration in other ways. But it does demonstrate that there are immigrants who are not very happy on these shores and it is a lesson that needs to be learned.

[miamihurricane555]

Originally Posted by thebigW

I hope you realize that Miami is located in America and therefore American.

it's all about demographics. the majority of people in miami were born somewhere else.

[miami_zed]

Originally Posted by kmarc

"Are you seriously trying to blame all immigrants for what happened in Boston? how dense can you get. "

Of course not. That is a very extreme example of an unhappy immigrant. Most unhappy immigrants express their frustration in other ways. But it does demonstrate that there are immigrants who are not very happy on these shores and it is a lesson that needs to be learned.

I think the religious brainwashing played a bigger role than that in the bombings and probably multiplied whatever feeling he had of not being completely happy here.

[miamihurricane555]

Originally Posted by miami_zed

I think the religious brainwashing played a bigger role than that in the bombings and probably multiplied whatever feeling he had of not being completely happy here.

very true. according to what i've herd he become radicalized in russia not here. not to mention that he comes from a very unstable region in russia where terror attacks happen every so often.

[sjnative]

Originally Posted by miamihurricane555

Not true I am completely fine with treating Americans(or any nationality) how they feel when i'm in THERE home or in a public place where the prevailing culture acts one way. when white,black, Asian,native american, or what other race or ethnicity you can think of comes to Miami. I expect them to adjust just as I had to adjust when I went to Virginia for the summer.

You're still missing the thrust of my criticism.

[boxus]

Originally Posted by miamihurricane555

it's all about demographics. the majority of people in miami were born somewhere else.

How does this matter in regards to the thread?

[boxus]

Originally Posted by miamihurricane555

As you could imagine this thread is about my letting out my frustration at Americans who are shocked/offended when instead of offering my hand to shake, in the case of girl I kiss them on the cheek and with guys I give them a Hug.I mean we live in Miami this is not the North where I could understand they would consider it fresh(I got slapped by a white girl in gainsville on my first time there), but here if Miami they should be used to it by now. Non Hispanic and Hispanic americans alike please comment.

You should take to some reading so you can understand that different cultures do different things. Internaiotnal marketing would be perhaps the best to read.

What does being in Miami have to do with anything? Someone should be use to how another culture does something because they live in Miami?

Plenty of non-Hispanic cultures do as you stated with the kiss/hug thing, hardly something only Hispanics do.

But I wonder how naive you must be to think that the world somehow should operate under your culture norms.