"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
01/15/2018 at 14:03 • Filed to: SHITPOSTING WITH TEH ASPIRING ENGINEER
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"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
01/15/2018 at 14:03 • Filed to: SHITPOSTING WITH TEH ASPIRING ENGINEER | 1
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This is not the gas station I’m referring to, just a stock image from google.
Today as I made my way to college I realized my trusty Pemex station was no longer: Tis now a Total gas station, with Bonjour written on a large, fixed plaque.
The gas station is normally empty at 6:30AM , but today it had a big ol line, and its not even the only one that had a huge line. Once British Petroleums opened its doors in Izcalli, a municipality within the Mexico City Metropolitan area, the line streched for blocks as people poured in gasoline at a very similar price to the soon to be refurbished pemex next door. Even the owners of the gas station stood confused at this development.
You see, we recently went through a constitutional reform that made petroleum available to foreign and private companies once again after a 75 year ban. These gas stations are still owned by the same people and still buy gasoline from Pemex for now. By law a clerk will still fill your tank and the meters are also still probably dispaching less liters than advertized. Yet, everyone is going nuts for them!
Which is odd because we all read the same books in school that posed President Cardenas as a savior that nationalized Mexican petroleum. Yet we seem fascinated by this foreign façade. Why is it?
Have we grown so distrustful of local services that we need a foreign name to give us comfort? Its a bit a symbol of the government too, and since in an economy the governemnt is the biggest buyer and spender... well... what does it say about us, the consuming populi?
We can see this urge for the foreign in other stuff like stores advertizing in english, products named in french, so on... While yes: language snobbery isnt exclusive to Mexico, its ever more present and a rejection of the local is becomming more normal.
It is a genuine issue with many of the Mexicans I know, including myself: we feel a certain disconfort with ourselves that can only be manifested by rejecting the local, and trying to feel more foreign to our own land, even only in the small details. Perhaps I’d pick up a stray piece of trash in Germany but I perhaps wouldn’t here. I wouldn’t signal every maneuver or give way to my fellow drivers here. Yet, I would in Canada...
Because we know that La Roma is a nice copy of parisian architecture
Because we know our federal highways are a nice interpretation of american interstate highways.
Because we think Aeromexico is almost as good as Air France.
Sometiems we fear to take credit for something being uniquely ours and wish to attribute it to either european or american cultural appropriations that we make. “How could it be good if its Mexican?” We ask ourselves sometimes, without realizing that our standards departed objectivity a long time ago. Then, how useful is it to judge ourselves with what are basically unfounded opinions?
The reason why many Mexicans stand out for good outside Mexico is because we have this inferiority complex sometimes; We behave better outside because many of us truly believe in the existence of civility outside. A civility we wish to emulate and want to uphold. Or is it a desire, somehow, to prove that we can match you, yes you...
El Foraneo, lo extranjero, lo Europeo y lo anglo sajón .
Think about it, what was an stereotypical Mexican before narcos? Hardworking in the US? Bilingual or trilingual in Europe? A great strategist amongst the international community?
Truth is we’re no better than anyone else, but that complex drives us nuts and makes us feel as if we’re not good enough for you. Yet given the notion that we must be worse than you, we justify being worse here. Along the same lines that you may drive 10 or 15 km/h slower when taking your parents; you want to create an ideal version of yourself that drives safely and isnt going to fall for road rage easily.
It must be tiresome to always be in this defensive position. The seeming constant state of caos here also makes us believe that it cannot be fixed and that, if we can, we must leave. If all those willing to be great outside of Mexico just tried to fix it, wouldn’t we be beter off? We could remove our coat of inferiority and try to tackle the world looking face to face, and not on our knees.
For Sweden
> Spanfeller is a twat
01/15/2018 at 14:10 |
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You know what to do when the French arrive
Textured Soy Protein
> Spanfeller is a twat
01/15/2018 at 14:16 |
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Did they start selling croissants when they switched to a Total sign? Because the line might be for the croissants.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> For Sweden
01/15/2018 at 14:16 |
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Oh, Mexican history is very fun! Did you know we had (and lost) a war against the French called the pastry war?
it was not at all like the ultimate bake off you guys have in TLC though...
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Spanfeller is a twat
> Textured Soy Protein
01/15/2018 at 14:17 |
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No, but they did offer coffee at the British Petroleum gas station in Izcalli!
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Textured Soy Protein
> Spanfeller is a twat
01/15/2018 at 14:20 |
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Is coffee not usually sold at gas stations in Mexico? Because here in MURRICA....
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Spanfeller is a twat
> Textured Soy Protein
01/15/2018 at 14:22 |
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yes, but they were giving out coffee and water for free since it was the first day since the rebranding
ranwhenparked
> Spanfeller is a twat
01/15/2018 at 14:31 |
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It’s not just Mexico - a lot of countries regard anything “foreign” as more desirable and prestigious than domestic. Well, mainly the US, UK, and China come to mind right now. Some countries (France, Germany, Japan) still seem to be pretty nationalistic in consumer tastes.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> ranwhenparked
01/15/2018 at 14:36 |
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“While yes: language snobbery isnt exclusive to Mexico”
I know that a lot of countries have an inferiority complex, but I’ve never experienced one as blatant as the Mexican. perhaps its because I live here and I experience it everyday (together with the Mexican immigrants outside the country to which I speak to) and also because our culture is a bit of a mix match of European culture, American culture, and native culture.. its a huge mess really and I love it... but to some of us its far too much!
A great author, Octavio Paz, wrote about this inferiority complex that we have and this morning I felt it through me, word by word. Because of the gas station.
FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
> Textured Soy Protein
01/15/2018 at 15:30 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42674724
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Spanfeller is a twat
01/15/2018 at 18:04 |
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It must have been about using butter vs margarine...
/jk