President Pokemon: Pinochet, Teen Sex & Chile...

Saturday, March 22, 2008
President Pokemon: Pinochet, Teen Sex & Chile Culture Wars
Newsweek recently offered up ascintillating Web exclusive exposé on an emerging, media-hyped, sexualized subculture that's rocking teens in Chile.
The so-called "urban tribe" is really called Pokemon, a moniker so unoriginal as to be not only asinine (and stultifyingly anime), but frankly apt: who can blame these kids entirely for the poverty of their cultural influences and creativity when raised by parents living in a virtual Teletubby-land of ahistorical, post-dictatorship, credit-card consumerist Chile?
Who can be surprised that a she-Pokemon interviewed for the story insists on calling herself Strawberry? Surely she's not alone among her friends' litany of artificial fruit flavor nicknames analogous to the artificial coloring in their hair, and as impressive as the Flinstone-faux bones sticking through their noses.
So "Pokemon" it is. Certainly can't blame the messenger. But Ashley Steinberg, who I know because she interned at the Santiago Times, is blamed for plenty, including a terrible semantic inaccuracy. She, or her editor, made no bones about breaking into Ashley's Newsweek break (congrats, Ashley!) with one of the most controversial lines of the article:The teens call their public orgies ponceo. That brought out the torches and pitchforks and dictionaries en masse as the commentards smugly corrected Ashley for getting the definition of "ponceo" wrong. One warrior-for-accuracy writes:Does your magazine have a fact checker?? If so, please fire him/her. Most of the information here is misleading. I live in Chile and although Pokemones do exist it is not "all over the city" and "ponceo" is about kissing not "oral sex".Firstly, despite the quotation marks surrounding "all over the city", Ashley never wrote that. More importantly, though, is that this retard and the ensuing mob blame Ashley for screwing up the definition of "ponceo". But let's look, again, at what she actually wrote:The teens call their public orgies ponceo. Ashley is not one of the teens. She is a reporter. She's reporting what the teens said. She's waaaay in the clear. And furthermore, from a linguistic perspective, I think the teens she's sourcing are absolutely right. Here's why:
Only a fool would assume that the classic dictionary definition of ponceo applies in all its rigid, unchanging sameness to the Pokemon speech community. Newsflash: language changes. Especially slang. It would hardly be surprising that ponceo, which meant "kissing" or "making out", would now cover "orgies" as well.
Think about it this way. The word "Pokemon" used to just mean some form of Japanese anime. Now it is also defined as a Chilean teen subculture. The word had one definition, now it has two definitions. Jesus is magic. Christ, can we move on now?
So overall I think it is a fine article. Ashley effectively illustrates the freakish vapidity of teens emerging from a generation of parents who were bludgeoned into a state of fearful abnegation of real social values such as solidarity, workers rights and democracy - values which flourished in Chile before the US-backed military junta of Augusto Pinochet violently persecuted its political opponents. Sure, Pinochet invoked "Almighty God" to justify his military junta, but the resulting Satan-spawn of Pokemon tells a different story (readEl Dios De Pinochetby Miguel Rojas Mix, to learn more about how Pinochet effectively waged a Holy War against his own citizens. A real creep).
Honestly, public orgies are probably the most innocuous manifestations of this subculture. People make out on park benches in a Latin Country. Wow.
Sure, Newsweek knows the best way to hype a story is through sex. And on the bright side, as a rather intelligent article steeped in sociology, perhaps even anthropology, sex is actually a highly appropriate angle. And to be fair, it's not just smooching on a park bench, it's adding multiple partners and oral sex to the mix, and so I guess that's pretty noteworthy in a conservative Catholic country. Or not. Sex is forbidden in the Chilean home, so it's exported to the park. Same as always?

Now, in the US, the park bench is out of bounds. It's referred to as
PDA - Public Display of Affection. In most European and Latin American countries, PDA is no big deal. In the Czech Republic, it reaches levels of public exhibitionism that puts Chile to shame (if only because Czechs tend to be much more beautiful).
So sex is important, but Ashley doesn't just join the media circle jerk. Instead, she raises the bar (no pun intended) and posits that the way these kids sex is an expression of consumerist frenzy and it's a point well made. She points out how "girls count up their partners just as boys do" and elucidates one teen's more classic version of consumerism:The group's consumerist tendencies have not been lost on the retail goods industry, which ferociously markets its products to the Pokemon demographic. Commercials for hair straighteners, MP3 players and cell phones run during talk shows that feature Pokemones complaining about their overprotective parents or catty best friends. "This week I bought two T-shirts and a webcam," says Pablo Gutierrez, 18. Sticking out his tongue to reveal a piercing, he adds, "And a new tongue ring. I was sick of my old one."Whoa there, big spender. Two T-shirts AND a Webcam???
Therein lies the pathos of Chilean materialism.
Yes, conspicuous consumption in North America is sick. But at least it's done right. If you're going to plunge your entire identity and sense of self-worth into material goods, then it better be, well, good. Two T-Shirts, a Webcam and a piercing doesn't cut it, kid. As Virgin Mobile might say, "You Rule?"

Now you might make the argument Chile's booming economy is injecting money into lower-classes and blossoming subcultures, similar to the explosion of wealth in the US after World War II giving spending power to blacks, as described by Tom Wolfe in his bookThe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Bullocks. The Chilean story is completely different from the US story, it is practically impossible to compare, although everybody wants to. What happened in the US was a real explosion of wealth, that really did get distributed somewhat. What's happening in Chile is the introduction of consumer credit with no significant increase in wages. Credit is available but wealth is not distributed.
I mean, if it were getting distributed, then why would Chilean pols on both sides of the aisle posture about an Ethical Wage, all but admitting thecritical, unsustainable disparity between the cost of living and workers' wages in Chile?
Now Ashley's story comes two years in the wake of my friend Cristobal Edwards' lucid piece onCulture Wars in Chile in Time Magazine.
The biggest flaw in Cristobal's article is the lack of park bench sex. By not including that, he avoided torrents of hate speech comments, and I'm sure Ashley would tell him he's totes missing out.
The piece also could be criticized for seeming to puff up Chile's progressive patina. But that was sorta trendy around when Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman president, was elected. And to be fair he does write that a "recent opinion survey by the MORI organization suggests Chile's values may not be quite as liberal as the recent trends suggest."
And for the sake of argument I'll paraphrase another friend's criticism of Cristobal's article: bullshit, there aren't culture wars in Chile - most Chileans are just waking up to the fact that they exist. In other words, the notion of Culture Wars is still something relegated to the upper echelons of society, most Chileans don't have the luxury of Culture Wars, and fundamentally Cristobal's piece is elitist.
Keep that in mind as Ashley writes:In fact, one of the Pokemones' main meeting spots is outside the television studio where their favorite program, "Diario de Eva," is filmed. The channel is owned by right-wing presidential candidate Sebastian Piñera, a billionaire businessman who, incidentally, made much of his fortune by helping bring credit cards to Chile. The irony is lost on the Pokemones, however, as they gather on the lawn near the studio's entrance.Now, I'm as big a fan of 'lost irony' as the next guy, but I think Ashley's definitely guilty of reaching at this point. Or her editor. Trying hard to contort the narrative into a formulaic balance between shock and condescension: savage "urban tribes" become dumbfuck teens in just over 1,300 words.
But any schoolchild can tell you the fastest way off Pokemon Island would be to point to Pinera's studio across the street and say, "Hey, isn't this funny - on a purely socio-historical level, of course - that you're the 7th boy I've sucked off this afternoon and, well, it's just amusing to me that my impending volcanic mouth herpes are going be the indirect result of Sebastian Pinera's introduction of credit cards into the Chilean economy."
While I get the point Ashley's making that Pokemon members particularly lack self-awareness when compared to other subcultures, I don't know any social group at any socio-economic level that is so painfully self-analytical. (Except, perhaps, sociologists).
In other words, of course the irony was lost - there was never a place for irony to begin with!
Even the oh-so highly evolved North American "hipster-irony" would have the Pokemons, at best, printing up T-Shirts that read "Who Killed Pinera?". It'd be so Pokemon in its complete lack of originality. Is that how these teenagers will recapture their lost irony?
Back to Culture Wars, I'd say that regardless of whether Chileans are awake to them, regardless of whether the irony is lost or found, that they are real in Chile. Especially if you go by the Tom Wolfe theory that as cash (or credit) is more available at more levels of society, subcultures blossom. It's not just the upper class because poor Chileans have credit cards. And if some of the commenters on the Newsweek article are to be believed, many Pokemones are lower class.
Sure, even with credit they don't have mountains of cash. Two T-Shirts and a Webcam isn't that revolutionary. Pokemon, like the others, is a consumer-based subculture in Chile that's a best a pale imitation/evolution of first world trend-setters, and ultimately they just look dumb and remind us all why poor people are so depressing.
But then again, are rich hiptards all that smart and uplifting?
I would love to talk more about Cristobal's culture wars but we're running out of time. Suffice it to say that if you're remotely interested in Chilean Pokemons then it'srequired reading. Be forewarned, though, that Eugenio Tironi is a douchebag - but don't blame the messenger.
UPDATE: Here are some more resources on Pokemon subculture in Chile. Here's a forum discussion of theNewsweek article and the Chilean Pokemon phenomenon, somepictures of Pokemon, randomblogging about Chilean Pokemons, Kotaku blog mocks a ridiculous freelancedefender of Chile's pristine image, and after watching this video I want to become a Pokemon:
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24 Comments:
At7:59 PM, Blaark said...
This was an amazingly good post, thanks so much... I can't wait to find a reason to travel to Chile now that they're finally accomplishing an American like sense of culture... Plus it will be nice to solicit teenage girls with a credit card, the new international language...Vive la raza!
At8:20 PM, Chileno said...
STDs are 2for1 with American Express.
At8:19 PM, Chile Liberal said...
Her error was huge and you didn't address the main problem: ponceo is not oral sex. The uproar over this article was not because of the "orgy" word, but because Newsweek and your one sexed up the article and made it look as if people are giving BJs everywhere in Santiago. If I understand correctly, you seem to aprprove this lie. It may help to boost sex tourism though.
Mentioning Piñera, most likely the next president of Chile, was mischevious: what's the link between the Diario de Eva, the TV programme that ignited this Pokemon trend, and the businessman who own the TV station?
That journalist is rubbish and it was an awful way to hype an article, and you endorse her.
This reminds me theKoran-desecration scandal.
I don't think the semantics of the word has changed, as I thought first, and as you justify. Ashley simply made a big mistake.
At9:54 PM, Failed States said...
The Newsweek article doesn't mention any kind of link to MTV induced emo fashion.
At1:08 AM, Chileno said...
@Chile Liberal, who wrote:
>>>Her error was huge and you didn't address the main problem: ponceo is not oral sex. The uproar over this article was not because of the "orgy" word, but because Newsweek and your one sexed up the article and made it look as if people are giving BJs everywhere in Santiago.
The word's definition was an issue because many Newsweek commentators made it an issue. I took the battle there and handily debunked their critical reading skills.
Similarly, you too are deluded. Ashley NEVER wrote that ponceo is pandemic in Santiago. She never even implied that "people are giving BJs everywhere in Santiago."
She described but ONE large gathering where orgies were taking place. She interviewed the kids, as well as a local passerby who condemned the sexual behavior. That's IT.
Truth is it's YOU who came to the absurd conclusion that Newsweek is portraying Santiago as somehow immersed in debauchery. You and a mob of semi-literate commentards who walked away with that conclusion.
But, if you go back and actually READ the article, you'll find you're scandalized anger has absolutely no factual basis.
No, I'm serious. GO BACK AND READ THE ARTICLE RIGHT NOW. Read it and weep.
At8:13 PM, Anonymous said...
Que pesado que eres con la gente. It's as if everything here was a battle of egos. The one wih the coolest attitude, the one with the most acid, witty commentary survives. It's the attitude of a typical American school bully. ¿Y sabes lo que pasa con lo bullies, no? Pues, se quedan solitos, porque nadie los quiere de verdad.
But I understand you in a way, because you come from a culture of war, hate, rabid competition, success or failure, survival of the fittest. This type of attitude is easily seen in American high school television series. It's no wonder there are school shootings all the time in the U.S. It's their way of life.
And that atmosphere permeates your blog. En cualquier momento te pasan la aplanadora. Aterrador.
You are nothing but a tiny Pinochet.
At9:04 PM, Chileno said...
>>>The one wih the coolest attitude, the one with the most acid, witty commentary survives.
I'm flattered. But I admit I'm fresh out of acid. You got a hook up?
Moving on, I was defending Ashley because she was being harassed by a lynch-mob of commentards who can't get their facts straight. That's hardly bullying. That's stepping in and defending the kid who's getting ganged up against. And not just out of blind loyalty I hardly know her, but rather because she deserved to be defended. The charges being leveled against her were wrong, and I clearly spelled out how they were wrong.
And I'm not alone. Her editors obviously stood by her as well. It was a Web Exclusive so they could have taken it down. They didn't.
The real bullies were the ones who tried to sully her name, with absolutely no proof, logic or common sense on their side.
You're right. As much as possible dumb people don't survive on my blog. I wonder why that annoys you so much.
BTW: your characterization of North America is flat out dumb. If you were among those scandalized by the supposedly sex-sationalized nature of the Newsweek article then you of all people should level a critical eye at the portrayals of North America that come filtered through corporate Hollywood screenplays and major media headlines.
Sure there are an inordinate number of school shootings. But it's a tiny percentage of the overall picture. And can you say assuredly that if Chile had 300 million people there wouldn't be the same percentage of shootings? And even without shootings, are you trying to say that Chile's high schools are happy-go-lucky kumbaya humming love-fests? Ever heard of Wena Naty???
Your blanket stereotyping demonstrates how tiresomely insular and credulous you are, my friend. Not only do you buy the hollywood hype (TV series about high schools) hook line and sinker, but you admit it on the Internet.
I'm sorry if you feel marginalized, or terrorized for being dumb when you read my blog. But honestly I think dumb people are quite dangerous, especially when they act in a mob. It's their terror that I'm fighting against. So choose your side.
If you want to sharpen up, I recommend regular cardiovascular exercise and plenty of flaxseed oil, because it is rich in Omega-3 fatty acids that go straight to the dome.
At10:04 PM, Same anonymous Doe said...
Thank you for your response. You've proved the point I made beyond my wildest dreams. :-)
At10:21 PM, Anonymous said...
There are countries with more than 300 million people where school shootings don't happen. And I can't believe you equate school killings with oral sex, or the display of oral sex, among students. That, on the contrary, would suggest Chilean students are much happier than their U.S. counterparts.
At12:21 AM, Chileno said...
>>>There are countries with more than 300 million people where school shootings don't happen.
So what. Chile had even less than its current, miniscule 16 million population when a violent military regime went into schools, offices, homes and streets and arrested teachers, professionals, mothers, fathers, & children, took them to stadiums and torture chambers to have them raped, electrocuted, beaten and killed. Russia has way less than 300 million and the state has assassinated at least 13 journalists. Israel/Palestine have like 3 people and the suicide bombings and military incursions seem like they'll never end.
Violence manifests itself everywhere, in different forms. Homeboy's point, I guess, was that somehow US is hyper-violent, moreso than the rest of the world, and that because I come from N. America that violence informs my blog, and I'm Pinochet. Oh, yeah, and Chilean high schools are nothing short of Heaven on Earth. And a Chilean high school would be better than my blog.
(I'm doing my best, here, although I readily admit I have no training caring for the minds of the criminally insane).
But if I can offer one piece of advice to homeboy: stop reading my blog and get to back to class!
>>>And I can't believe you equate school killings with oral sex, or the display of oral sex, among students.
Beautiful example of delusion. There's no way on God's Green Earth you could come to that conclusion based on what I wrote. Except, you just did. Take it easy on the acid.
>>>Thank you for your response. You've proved the point I made beyond my wildest dreams. :-)
Hey, the pleasure is mine. We were never at any real disagreement about your level of intelligence. In case your short-term memory isn't holding up so well, I'll remind you of my deep concession to your point. I wrote:
>>>You're right. As much as possible dumb people don't survive on my blog. I wonder why that annoys you so much.
At7:33 AM, Chile Liberal said...
Chileno wrote (my highlihts):
Sure, Newsweek knows the best way to hype a story is through sex. And on the bright side, as a rather intelligent (sic) article steeped in sociology, perhaps even anthropology, sex is actually a highly appropriate angle. And to be fair, it's not just smooching on a park bench, it's adding multiple partners and oral sex to the mix, and so I guess that's pretty noteworthy in a conservative Catholic country.(...)
But you went on:
I was defending Ashley because she was being harassed by a lynch-mob of commentards who can't get their facts straight.
What part of 'ponceo is not oral sex' you still don't get? The mob of retard (as you call them) who pointed out the error are actually right. It's the journalist who got it wrong, starting the article with the punch line trying to desperately mention fellatio and orgies as soon as the article starts in order to get some attention. How desperate is that?
The sad thing is that the rest is actually interesting, but it was hyped in a cheap way. I found unreal that you didn't address the confusion, and looks like you endorse this major inaccuracy because it helps the article?
Please clarify.
I don't want to go into much detail on the 'They are too busy having sex' line, when actually one of the interviewed girls admit to having only some sort of heavy petting but not penetrative sex, but Ashley fucked up.
At1:25 PM, Chileno said...
You quote me "intelligent (sic)" - why (sic)? I spelled it right. Do you even know English? This hyper-error of yours further illustrates the confused, deluded and uncomprehending way in which you read both this entry and the Newsweek article. It explains why you're forcing me to explain myself - again. Ugh, please make it end.
As I've already clearly pointed out, the commentards got it wrong on at least two levels. I spelled them out:
1. They, like you, act as if Ashley's article portrayed Santiago bathed in public orgies. If you go back and actually READ the above blog post I wrote, you'll recall that I quoted one of the commentards:
>>>I live in Chile and although Pokemones do exist it is not "all over the city"
And I responded:
>>>Firstly, despite the quotation marks surrounding "all over the city", Ashley never wrote that.
His error was exemplary of numerous complaints that Ashley's piece was exaggerating the public orgy activity. You yourself wrote: "the article and made it look as if people are giving BJs everywhere in Santiago"
I have pointed out multiple times now that it's the readers' fault if he chooses to take away that impression. Because there's absolutely nothing of the sort expressed in the article.
That's just one of the facts that the mob of rabid retards can't get right.
The second one about ponceo I've explained enough already. If you can't get it by now, there's no amount of reasoning that'll help you.
At2:26 PM, Chile Liberal said...
Can you paraphrase your explanation about the mistake on 'ponceo'? I don't get it.
At2:38 PM, Chileno said...
Dude. I really appreciate that you enjoy discussing things but I happen to have a life kinda. I can't spend all day rinsing and repeating what I've already written. If you can't get it, I'm sorry. Why don't you mull it over and think about what it means? I'm not convinced you've put your head to it yet.
At4:44 PM, Paz said...
Great Post. I'm posting a link to it on my blog
At5:57 PM, Macarena said...
I also thought the author of the article was wrong when she said they call their orgies "ponceo", as I went to Chile for xmas and learnt all sorts of new words (you know how it is over there). Well "ponceo" was one of these words and then (only 3 months ago) it ment "making out", like kissing one and then another and so on. As you said, slang is constantly changing, and it totally makes sense that this little word has gone from one meaning to another in a whole different level.
On another issue, people commenting on the actual article kept saying "the police wouldn't allow this" YEAH RIGHT!!! many things happen in those parks, from under age drinking to drug use. I know this because on my last year of highschool in Santiago my class mates and I would go after PE class to drink some beer to a park, and the police was nowhere to be seen.
At6:34 PM, Fg68at said...
I research for emo and pokemon for the german Wikipedia. When i read the Newsweek article i think to myself: "this is an article from usa. when they write sex orgy it must be fewer in my european eyes. it must be havy kissing." :-)
A Question: Is emo = pokemon? Or is there some difference and changeover? In The Videos of the Pokemons i see not much "emotional" like by emos. I see at pokemons more baggy jeans and more colours (not only screaming colour flashes). The hairstyle, piercings and kissing are similar.
At7:07 PM, Chileno said...
Right, pokEMOn is how I see it typed a lot, and as at least one other commenter pointed out, it's inspired by emo culture. But I think there are definitely differences, at this point I don't know enough about either group to lay out any coherent contrasts.
At12:53 PM, Chileno said...
@Chile Lib, who said:
>>>I don't want to go into much detail on the 'They are too busy having sex' line, when actually one of the interviewed girls admit to having only some sort of heavy petting but not penetrative sex, but Ashley fucked up.
When did Ashley ever say "penetrative sex"??? You're reacting to shit she never even wrote. Learn how to read, dude.
At3:54 PM, colin said...
chileno,
although i think the truth is pretty secondary in this 'discussion' i
live next to Parque Forestal and I've never seen anybody getting or giving head. like i said though, i don't think the truth is anything anyone is bothered with in this pissing contest. anyway, though i think that the 'i can be more caustic, sarcastic, antagonistic, and argumentative so you call all relish in my self proclaimed brilliance' is a little wearisome, i think you do provide some interesting and informative coverage of Chile that a neophyte appreciates. I wish it didn't have to be inspired by the Bill O'reily school of communication, but one weaned in the argument culture can't shelve it just b/c he moved south
At4:53 AM, Chileno said...
I'm simply pointing out a delusion suffered by people unable to do critical reading. The text of Ashley's article does not even imply that public sex is pandemic in Chile. Yet you 'report' that you don't see public sex in parque forestal, as if it were somehow a relevant rebuttal.
For someone so averse to 'pissing contests' as yourself, Colin, you're surprisingly quick to unload your own ammonia-laced incoherencies.
At11:39 AM, Anonymous said...
Let me give you some learning in music culture. And some other facts as well while im at it. im from chile, born and raised. moved to the states when i was a little chap. Yes, i know there is poverty in chile, most south american countries have it. But there is no reason to laugh or to make comments on how poor countries are dumb and ignorant like you have stated in the past. I will be the first to agree with you that chile is lost when it comes to fashion and they way they dress. They dont make much sense. Here (in the states) they would be considered Emo. Which many people dont understand what it is and instead they like to say that they are gays and or punks. Emo kids are lost as well, in the sense that they are emotional and listen to sad music and dress different than most people. Emo is not a music genre, its the way they dress and feel. I've been called emo by friends who are ignorant to what emo actually is. im not emo, just because i wear tight jeans and a band tshirt doesnt mean that im emo. i follow a lot of bands now of the screamo, metalcore, indie, grindcore, mathcore, hardcore punk, and deathcore genres. yes, they are genres of music that bands decide to name their type of music preference. Chile has the sense to dress the same way that some of us do that follow that type of music. But these kids (pokemones) dont, they listen to regeaton and rap. very lost. while we are listening to Bless the Fall, Catherine, Devil wears prada and Bring me the horizon, they are listening to fergie and Akon. makes no sense to me. If you really want more knowledge on music, go to "el corazon" or the "Showbox" in downtown seattle when a good band is playing and look and ask around. now, i read the newsweek article, and the first thing that was said upset me to a new level. Theres no way that theres another way on how to read what she wrote. it was all false. she either does not speak spanish or she had a bad interpreter. There is no sex going on in parks or public places. and then you state that video of a pokemon girl who gave head to a guy in class. big deal, its wrong, but who cares. bill clinton got felatio, and he was a president. theres sex going on everywhere. you make it seem like chile is the most peverted country in the world, and its not. its a catholic country, and i would know because im catholic too. ive seen people trying to get it on in a park, about 10 years ago while i was playing soccer with my friends. but i've also known people who have got caught having sex in a united states aircraft carrier, which i would know about because im in the navy as well. proving my point that sex happens anywhere. orgies in the central park of the countries capital is not true. you say that chile has no punishment for indecent exposure, they probably dont, but im sure the caribineros wouldnt just sit there and watch it and or let it happen. nobody would. yes, they probably have little parties and they try ponceo, which is a word for trying to see how lucky you get in a night and with how many chicks. isnt that the game that everyone plays in the states too? so why point the finger at chile and explode it with saying that they are having orgies? so people read your little newsweek time magazine or whatever its called (im quoting zoolander btw). she clearly stated that orgies were going on at parks and now people are saying "is there any decency in this country?" or "im scratching chile off my list of places to visit". thanks lady. lets state some other facts: Nevada is pretty much pro prostitution, chile isnt. look up "american girl" and "Chilean girl" in google images and take off the safe searching and see how many naked girls you come up with for both. Chile doesnt have as many people residing then the united states, but theres more shootings happening there then there is in chile. the way that people dress doesnt harm people, people who dont like how someone else dresses and are ignorant fucks and didnt get many hugs from their parents are the people who hurt other people. making fun of a little kid who is stoked about getting a new lip ring and 2 shirts over a webcam is sad in your part, chile is not as rich as the US is. where do you think that these kids are getting their styles from? They dress the same exact ways that "emo" kids do. and if soo many people are reading the article on newsweek and think its obsurd and wrong, why do you call them all dumb people? if you think you are soo smart, why do you retain the wrong information she stated differently? does that mean that the rest of us are stupid? then why are so many people complaining on how she wrote it? i guess the only smart people in this world are you, the woman who wrote the article, and her editors? do us all the favor and run for president bro, maybe you can lower the gas prices. Im sorry i didnt write with big words, because im not as smart as you like i just stated, and i also dont keep a thesaurus next to me when i write. From a chilean serving in a united states naval carrier, with love
At11:52 AM, Chileno said...
I'm too elitist to run for president. Hope you get some action on that aircraft carrier!
At5:09 PM, Anonymous said...
in america we call these kids douche bags.