"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
03/29/2019 at 00:11 • Filed to: None
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"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
03/29/2019 at 00:11 • Filed to: None | 2
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Quite literally, advertizing, at least in this country, has become a lot better.
Notice the Spanglish?
There was a mediatic revolution around 2010? (ish). Through my mind, I always remeber these ads from
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as the breaking point... Where Mexican media was finally ready to make huge investments in improved graphics. In that particular case using CGI to sync the dog’s mouth (a year earlier everyone was losing their mind about it in the Disney Film Beverly Hills Chihuahua). Right now the same agencies that brought this revolution are fending off another one... in the form of MeToo, which struck the Mexican mediatic industry hard this past month, as Twitter accounts have spread anonymous -and revolting- allegations about men in advertizing, music, television, film, and even print media...Which somehow still exists?
It may seem like I talk, obsessively, about Mexico. It
’
s
just in the
hope that when I write shit about this country (good, bad, strange) it’
s noticed as a way to see what happens ‘here.’ I know that in many cases it
s not that bad, or good, or strange, but I feel like it can help explain my part of the world to people in other parts.
To misquote Todd Chavez “It’s proof
we
exist.”
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Spanfeller is a twat
03/29/2019 at 08:17 |
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There’s nothing wrong with writing about the place you live. Do it without apology.
My experience with Mexico is pretty negative, so it’s nice to see someone writing about it from a real-life perspective . My wife’s family lives near the border where the drug lords have ruined all of the border towns. When people fluent in spanish who grew up visiting the towns across the border now refuse to go because they fear for their lives. Unfortunately, it’s the perspective that most people in the southern U.S. get about Mexico because that ’s t he Mexico we hear about most often.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/29/2019 at 17:00 |
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It’s a strange country. Everytime I think I catch the grasp of it I end up realizing I don’t actually understand
how
it’s this diverse. In Monterrey my grandfather got robbed at gunpoint once with an AK47, yet in the neighborhood I live, only six bullets have been fired in the last four years.
It’s so hard to keep up with crime, sometimes cities change, Piedras Negras for instance, it’s a border town in an unsafe state
yet it figured as one of the safest towns in the country.