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I just blessed out a reporter via email for being ignorant. So totally culturally idiotic.
Do not compare Juan Pablo Montoya to Dale Earnhardt Sr. by calling him "Dale Earnhardt Sr. in a sombrero".
*fumes*
Juan Pablo Montoya is Columbian. He is not Mexican. You can't interchange nationality.
I don't give a flying flip that this dude may pull out the "but a sombrero means "hat" in Spanish". Because yes, it does. But it's a specific type of hat (specifically, a hat with a brim, like, oh, say...a baseball cap). So Senior IS Senior in a sombrero. And if you take the average American and ask them what a sombrero is, they tell you it's a Mexican hat. Common understanding (and common usage in our culture) dictates how it comes across, and this guy just pissed me off.
Okay, rant over.
Do not compare Juan Pablo Montoya to Dale Earnhardt Sr. by calling him "Dale Earnhardt Sr. in a sombrero".
*fumes*
Juan Pablo Montoya is Columbian. He is not Mexican. You can't interchange nationality.
I don't give a flying flip that this dude may pull out the "but a sombrero means "hat" in Spanish". Because yes, it does. But it's a specific type of hat (specifically, a hat with a brim, like, oh, say...a baseball cap). So Senior IS Senior in a sombrero. And if you take the average American and ask them what a sombrero is, they tell you it's a Mexican hat. Common understanding (and common usage in our culture) dictates how it comes across, and this guy just pissed me off.
Okay, rant over.
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