José Soplanucas

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As I shared before, I cannot afford business. Look at all the room I got in the United's extra legroom class. Even better, this was the first flight since the end of the lockdowns that was not full, and I had two seats for myself. I do not know how tall you are (I am 1,76 m), but even in regular cabin class, Brazilian LATAM seems to give more room than whatever airline you flew in: I just endured the flights and thought of the rewards waiting for me at Rio. First night:

Please, stay and fight.

I would say extremely passionate stupidity. His White God bless him.

The crystal ball tells me she is a White victim of racism.

Would you mind sharing what your ethnicity is, and an example of when you were a victim of racism?

Bull shit. /econres/notes/Social_Default_Image.jpg The Fed - Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap WWW.FEDERALRESERVE.GOV The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

South Cone and Costa Rica. Central Americans understand voceo very well.

You do not need to be a native of Salamanca to be able to speak this "pure" Castillian. I am not Spaniard, but I can teach Spanish with the characteristics typical of Peninsular Spanish. All you need to teach a language is to know the language. Applying your argument to a different situation, you would only be able to teach Spanish if you are a native Spanish speaker. The idea of language immersion has nothing to do with the native or not quality of the instructors. It has to do with the exposition to the language inside and outside of the classroom, diminishing your brain's chances of returning to its first language.

I humbly think those moments are a racist reaction to the BLM/woke rising. Beyond that, and whether or not you agree with the idea that racism is structural, my point is simple. If the conversation is about structural racism, and your response is, "Such a thing does not exist; the proof is that I am color blind," you are indeed stupid. You do not understand a socio/cultural/political structure if you think you contradict it with your experience.

@Unicorn explained very well the importance of knowing the purpose before deciding where to experience language immersion.

The question, then, is when we decide to cut in the evolution continuum to identify an origin. I think otherwise. I think the idea of "purity" of a language has to do with erudition and the need for the upper classes to be the ones able to speak a pure language. In some cases, like in Spanish, this idea is at the foundation of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española. I always liked English more because of its lack of language authority and the much more democratic idea of anyone being able to create language.

He definitely does not know what he is talking about. I partially disagree with you. I do not think there is any place that can claim to be the purest example of any language. Languages are living structures, constantly evolving and interacting with one another. Salamanca, hosting the most prestigious Spaniard university and being a relatively small city (I do not think the population reaches 200K), I am sure has many educated people who can speak and write very well in Castillan. But from that to say that the region has the purest form of the language there is a huge leap.

Agreed, they can be stupid and not racist!

I do not think that is possible after the BLM and woke movements rise.

What about Philipinos, Eskimos, Native American Indian ethnicities, Polynesians, (keep filling in your forgotten ethnicities)

When we point to structural racism as a challenge, there is always some oblivious/racist idiot saying: What? But I am color blinded!

I am in the poor wing of the forum. I cannot afford business or first class. I travel pretty comfortably in the Economy Plus section. United and American have this hybrid class that gives you extra legroom and better service, and usually boards with group 4 or 5.

I see how you came up so fast after I opened this thread. Nice!

Can more than one post be marked as "the solution" in one thread?

I see you typing, @RadioRob. Damn you are fast.

Hola! I just received a notification I had never seen before. Someone (I assume the thread's OP) marked one of my posts as "the solution." Is this something new? Gracias!

Suppose anyone is considering Buenos Aires, which is a great option to learn the Spanish spoken in the South Cone, specifically in the Rio de la Plata region. In that case, I strongly recommend the Laboratorio de Idiomas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. The UBA is a very prestigious academic institution (internationally prestigious), and its Lab is a hub attracting learners of all languages and ages. Three decades ago, when I started to learn English, I attended this school. It is a public, utterly free university in all of its undergraduate schools and desperately seeks additional funding. The Lab is one of these additional funds sources, as they can charge for the enrollment. In my time, the Lab was inside the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. I am confident that in these three decades, they improved the experience or mirrored it in other branches. The UBA may also be offering the service in other schools (Facultades). If the UBA endorses it, it is reliable. They specially cared about the courses offered to foreigners learning Spanish, as it is legal to have a differentiated fee for Mercosur citizens. They would get relatively a lot of funding from Europeans and North Americans taking the classes. As it was very popular and demanded institution, you were able to mingle with a very diverse crowd, diverse in all aspects. I hooked up so many times there. One of the things many would do was offer an exchange: I teach you Spanish, you teach me (fill in your target language). So native speakers of two languages had the chance to teach each other outside of a classroom setting. I made several American and British friendships. We would meet and chat half of the time in one language to then switch to the other in different environments. I am not sure, but I am confident this experience can be replicated in any big city if you resist the temptation to hang out with your own language speakers and instead mingle with the locals.

People of Color have to work harder and for less money than their White brothers and sisters in most professions, not only in escorting.