tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post5747702727749277377..comments2023-11-26T14:34:38.543-08:00Comments on African American - Latino World: My Story Behind African American-Latino WorldW Bill Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-69068542582553714272010-10-13T11:44:00.338-07:002010-10-13T11:44:00.338-07:00Jarard, thanks for sharing about the bilingual chu...Jarard, thanks for sharing about the bilingual church. I kind of thought of that idea in the past. I just need to find a church is that is aligned with my spiritual interests. I'm glad you are hooked up with one.W Bill Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-85288843853971697202010-10-13T11:32:10.675-07:002010-10-13T11:32:10.675-07:00Lydia, thank you for all your blog visits. I was w...Lydia, thank you for all your blog visits. I was wondering who that was from UAB looking at my blog :-)<br /><br />Tell your Chinchano (people from Chincha) friends to e-mail me anytime. I'll be we know the same people. billsmith510@gmail.comW Bill Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-49349299018650199382010-10-13T09:00:35.456-07:002010-10-13T09:00:35.456-07:00I just wanted to write and let you know that I enj...I just wanted to write and let you know that I enjoy reading your blog about Afro-Latino culture. I am an African-American woman that majored in Spanish in college. I absolutely love the Spanish language and culture. While attending a Spanish church here in Birmingham, Alabama I had the pleasure of meeting an Afro-Peruvian family from Chincha. We quickly became friends and since then my interest in Afro-Latino culture has grown. I have learned so much from your blog and I look forward reading more posts about your travels. I hope that someday I will have the opportunity travel and experience the Afro-Latino World.<br /><br />Lydia G.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-89872413400486246092010-10-01T23:54:32.077-07:002010-10-01T23:54:32.077-07:00i enjoyed reading this blog. this is how i got my ...i enjoyed reading this blog. this is how i got my start learning spanish as well. through the music. the church used to attended is a biligual church the pastor aside from his cuban wife a puerto rican the rest of congreation are a mix of latinos, and white and black americans. basically they started singing songs i knew but then sung the exact same song in spanish and that blew away. back in highschool 98-02 i was opposed to learning spanish based on what was presented to me on t.v. i'm thinking to ewww this so whack why do i wanna learn spanish for? and managed to graduate highschool without taking a foreign language sn: im originally from saginaw, MI. anyways I join the church and I begin learning on my own singing the songs and listening to the sermons. one a dominicana started talking to me and I didnt understand what she was saying. I ask my godmother (the pastors older sister) to help me out. to make a long story short after that she asked how could you sing in spanish and not speak it. i told i didnt know enough to keep a conversation. she then said you need to goto school. so i went to college. as of now I've changed my major to be a spanish teacher. the more i learned about spanish the more i was forced to learn about the culture and why ppl mistaked me for being latino. matter of fact that's happened since birth literally. when i was first born ppl thought my father was latino. of course he isn't and to me he doesnt even "look latino" period. he's looks like an african american to me and i don't look any different. even my small undestanding of the latino culture and history i still think that my fater doesn't look latino lol. except one day when he was wearing this hat. im thinking to myself okay jibaro lol. but this is cool reading this blog it made me smile and lead me to continue to think man there are aa's out there that are open to learning about something outside of the US. in some cases US history means bullcrap in the sense of them not telling the all of the facts which I why I lean more towards the latino culture and history because to me I'm learning the truth about reallly being african in the sense living in another land. they (latinos) tried their best to keep the african roots alive and look now.jarardhttp://www.facebook.com/JarardArnoldnoreply@blogger.com