Lmao, if you live in San Diego and can't handle Spanish you're gonna have a bad time.
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All of Southern California really.
My favorite is when dickhead white folks say they want "all the brown people to go back where they came from," without the slightest clue that they were here first, and then they get real pissy when you point that fact out.
Yeah I point out that Texas used to actually be part of Mexico and the border moved, not the people.
The border moved because Mexico had banned slavery so they fought a war to keep it.
Texas is the only state in the union to fight a war for slavery TWICE.
And that, kids, is the important thing to remember about The Alamo
Apparently white folk in Texas despise being called Texicans
Isn't Texas properly pronounced as Te-has, a Mexican name?
Tejas is from the native americans, if I remember rightly. Something to do with 'friend' or 'friendship' I think. Then it gets filtered through the spanish language before coming to english as texas.
I live in a white flight town in the bay area. We're still 20% Hispanic. Maybe Shasta?
Even then, most of California was predominantly Hispanic from the mid 1700s onward. When the Spaniards came to Baja California in the mid 1750s, they established 5 Franciscan missions in baja, along with 21 missions between San Diego and just north of the bay. They mixed with the indigenous population, who then became known as Californios. It wasn't until white people started showing up just prior to and especially during the gold rush, with then California becoming a US state in 1850. Even then, it wasn't until the late 1800s/early 1900s that California became predominantly white, and that was primarily due to the sheer number of white folks that moved west in such numbers that eclipsed the local Hispanic population.
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For reference, San Diego and Tijuana back right up to each other and have one of the busiest border crossings in the country.
You're going to hear Spanish there.
Btw, San Diego would be Saint James.
It's wild that the name Diego becomes James in English!
I would've thought of Daniel or something but no, JAMES
Diego (Diogo in Portuguese) is a modification of the name Tiago which in turn is the diminutive of Santiago which is the name of the apostle James in Spanish and Portuguese.
Maybe Saint Jim would convey the idea better?
San Diego <- Santiago <- Sant Iago <- Sanctus Iákōbos -> Sanct Iacobus -> Saint Iacomus -> Saint James
And Iákōbos from Hebrew Yaaqob
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Best we can do is Saint America.
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The accurate response to this is “a whale’s vagina.” Idk how one can live there and not know this.
Scholars maintain that the translation was lost long ago!
Woof. I said something similar before seeing your comment.
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I have seen variations on this online for a long time, and this has always baffled me: do strangers in America really go up to random people who are speaking foreign languages and tell them "you are in X, speak Xese", a language they may or may not speak? Even among people who share their native language?
Yeah there's a segment of arrogant racist halfwit conservatives that get a superiority kick out of demeaning people for stuff like that.
When I was a kid my mother's boyfriend bragged of doing exactly this. He heard them having a conversation in another language at a gas station, approached them, and started speaking to them in German. When they were confused he allegedly said exactly the phrase. You are in America, speak English. He thought it was hysterical.
He may have been full of shit, but the fact that he felt it worth bragging about said enough about him.
I saw it twice that I can remember in person in my ~30 years growing up and living in the US. Can't speak for the last decade as I've only spent a couple weeks in the US in that time to see family.
Sadly, but also a bit humorously, yes.
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If she had responded with "A Whale's Vagina," I would have died.
Hey, what’s the English word for California??
Technically, Caliphate. Calafia was the queen of the made up kingdom of California in a 16th century novel. The name comes from there.
The name of Calafia was likely formed from the Arabic word khalifa (religious state leader) that is known as caliph in English and califa in Spanish.
That's the dumbest and most beautiful premise for naming a place that I've seen
And Khalifa (خليفة) in the Arabic language literally means successor/inheritor (aside from the religious connotations), so there is some trivia for the day.
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Oh heck yeah friggin racist le epic owned
People clapped so hard their hands hurt.
And then we all clapped
Saint Jack
From what I could gather, Diego appears to come from Thiago. Thid means that San Diego would be Saint James.
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Saint James…
Fun fact, the name Santiago, is basically the same as San Diego. Originally, it comes from the hebrew Jacob (ya-akov), then Sant Iago (Iago sounds similar to ya-akob, it's the latinization of the name IIRC). I think Diego actually comes from shortening Santiago to Thiago, and then to Diego. Basically all comes from Jacob. In Spanish, the actual translation for James would be Jaime, not Diego. I don't know what happened there or if Jaime and Diego as somehow related etymologically.
The point being she didn't even know.
Saint James?
Sand the eggo.
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