Posted: Jul 25, 2013 9:24 pm
Multiculturalism is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
I'm cooking cabrito mole poblano today, got the goat meat at the Latino supermarket. Also stopped at the oriental supermarket to get some tamarinds and globe eggplants. Spoke broken Spanish in the first and broken Thai in the second. We got on fine, all tied together by the Almighty Dollar. Stopped and talked to a Filipino neighbor this morning while walking the dogs, he gave me a fresh papaya from his tree. Had a chat with another neighbor, a Jamaican rasta dude, he just bought a new motor scooter and stopped to show it to me while I was out front cleaning the boat. Mrs. Lak is British expat, born and raised in Africa, she cut the German neighbor's hair the other day. We're going to the pub later tonight to listen to a couple of friends play, the drummer is Ecuadorian, the guitarists are Spanish and Romanian, and the singer is Russian and the bassist is from Boston. Now, Bostonians are fucking foreign, can barely understand them. Our third "daughter" just graduated from Ringling School of Art and Design with a degree in computer animation, she's from Ghana and I've sent her digital portfolio to an old friend of mine, a Panamanian guy who works as an Imagineer at Disney and has a lot of contacts at Disney and DreamWorks.
Nobody seems to have any religious, cultural or political axes to grind, nobody is asking for special dispensations or gets all hot and bothered over imagined slights. Everybody just gets on as best they can, If that's multiculturalism then I'm all for it, but I've only seen this sort of thing in the U.S. So far from our "melting pot" failing, I see it working spectacularly every day of the week. I don't give a shit if I have to learn a bit of Spanish.
I'm cooking cabrito mole poblano today, got the goat meat at the Latino supermarket. Also stopped at the oriental supermarket to get some tamarinds and globe eggplants. Spoke broken Spanish in the first and broken Thai in the second. We got on fine, all tied together by the Almighty Dollar. Stopped and talked to a Filipino neighbor this morning while walking the dogs, he gave me a fresh papaya from his tree. Had a chat with another neighbor, a Jamaican rasta dude, he just bought a new motor scooter and stopped to show it to me while I was out front cleaning the boat. Mrs. Lak is British expat, born and raised in Africa, she cut the German neighbor's hair the other day. We're going to the pub later tonight to listen to a couple of friends play, the drummer is Ecuadorian, the guitarists are Spanish and Romanian, and the singer is Russian and the bassist is from Boston. Now, Bostonians are fucking foreign, can barely understand them. Our third "daughter" just graduated from Ringling School of Art and Design with a degree in computer animation, she's from Ghana and I've sent her digital portfolio to an old friend of mine, a Panamanian guy who works as an Imagineer at Disney and has a lot of contacts at Disney and DreamWorks.
Nobody seems to have any religious, cultural or political axes to grind, nobody is asking for special dispensations or gets all hot and bothered over imagined slights. Everybody just gets on as best they can, If that's multiculturalism then I'm all for it, but I've only seen this sort of thing in the U.S. So far from our "melting pot" failing, I see it working spectacularly every day of the week. I don't give a shit if I have to learn a bit of Spanish.