Quote: (04-12-2013 11:48 AM)thedude3737 Wrote:
Quote: (04-12-2013 07:37 AM)MattC Wrote:
I love it how the lowest members of society are always talking about "disrespect". "Don't disrespect me", haha. We get it over here too, scumbags in trackies and hoodies coming out of council estates talking about people disrespecting one another as if they've done something to earn respect.
"You're disrespecting me in front of my baby". Yeah, your baby's not gonna wanna suck on your saggy ass tits after getting verbally beat down by some fat hoodrat.
This. I see this shit all the time with my Latino cooks. One especially that I fired a month or two ago. Some Guatemalan kid that lives in east L.A. He was always going on and on about being disrespected.
This kid had major problems; he'd run from the cops, got convicted, was on house arrest, mom had health issues and he had to buy her medicine, shitty ass car was always breaking down. And yet he'd spend all his free time going to ghetto clubs and getting into more shit. Would come into work and his coworkers would ride him and he'd start mouthing off about being "disrespected". Everything was an altercation with him, he had no idea how to interact with others like a normal human being.
That right there is the problem with ghetto culture. Be it black, white, latino. They'll go on and on about how hard shit is, about how they can't get anywhere in life, can't get ahead, but then keep perpetuating the same shit that keeps them down.
"Yeah yeah," you're thinking, easy for me to say, middle class white boy. That's fine. But I've seen some broke-as-hell guys pull themselves out, really hardworking Latinos that work two jobs and work their way up to make a damn respectable salary, have a family, and live somewhat of a normal life. I've got a great observation deck to see how low-income minorities get by. I see em fresh off the boat, and ones that have been here for 10 years, and everything in between. Ones that have done jail time, others that kept it clean the whole time and kept their eye on the ball.
The ones that really make it, that have a good life and have the most happiness, are the ones that never felt disrespected, never felt the world owed them anything, put their ego aside, and showed up to work every day and busted their ass.
That's the thing, they're always looking to create drama. They absolutely thrive on it and without it think they have a meaningless life. They don't want to work hard and their problems are always because of someone else. They love the drama, and their ghetto pride means everything to them.
There's this guy I know who is 30 years old and grew up in a council estate in London. He still lives in a council estate and loves to stir the pot of drama. He's seen me go from blue pill to red pill and doesn't like the change. He's an intimidating guy, very in your face, and if you've seen the films Football Factory or Green Street then if I tell you he used to be a part of a football firm you'll know what I mean.
I met him through a sales company we both used to work for and he thought of himself as a father figure to me, despite me not wanting or needing it. However, I was always too scared to speak up for myself with him but in the past year or so, I've fought my corner and I've always been in the right. His responses? "Who do you think you're talking to?", "you think you can talk to me like that?", "don't take me for a cunt" when I'm arguing legitimate, valid and reasonable points.
Got no time for people like that and I've phased him out of my life now thankfully. He was giving me shit for 6 weeks about helping him out with something, despite me helping him out enough already and when I said I didn't want to, he'd flip out at me. "I'd put my life in danger to help you out", "do you know who you're talking to?" and all that shite. He hadn't done anything to earn my respect but acted like he owned a million £ corporation which he built from scratch. I'd put him at the lower end of the social "class" ladder, yet all he talked about was if he was at the higher end despite his living situation, lifestyle, income, friends, family etc suggesting the complete opposite.
I don't know why that is. Maybe it makes them feel a bit better for their lives and the situations they're in.