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fraac
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05 Dec 2011, 4:33 pm

It's a demonym. He said African WOMEN. It's up to us to patiently explain exactly how many African women he'll need to try for a representative sample.



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05 Dec 2011, 4:33 pm

deconstruction wrote:
Which, on the other hand, doesn't mean EE are materialistic...


That's true. However I have found this to be much more frequently the case with Polish women (perhaps because of the Communist rule in their country) than here in the UK, although our ladies (not all of whom are deserving of the word) are not immune.



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05 Dec 2011, 5:22 pm

Being raised in poverty can make people materialistic, but it's not a rule. Again, it depends on a person. Most EE people I know aren't materialistic, though there are those who are to a great extend, or at least pretend to be.

The thing is, usually in EE, a woman needs to be all dressed up, thin, with makeup, to be even considered a woman in true sense of the word. No messy, I'll-go-in-my-old-pajamas-outside lack of style.

But it all depends on a person whether she wants to follow these rules or not.



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05 Dec 2011, 5:26 pm

After you're done, try Middle-eastern women.



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05 Dec 2011, 5:28 pm

Keeno wrote:
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Indeed. Is the Canary Islands (an integral part of Spain) considered to be in Africa or not? It's not very African there, lookey-lookey men excepted.

I went there only a few weeks ago and they never even uttered their famous catchphrase once with their wide, rather disturbing grins. I was disappointed.



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05 Dec 2011, 5:37 pm

When Poles first arrived here en masse they looked like cheap Italians, which matches deconstruction's observation.



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05 Dec 2011, 5:37 pm

I would think not. Never ever heard of the Canaries spoken of as part of Africa, such is their lack of cultural intertwining with any part of Africa. This despite the islands being African geologically.



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05 Dec 2011, 5:38 pm

I'm going to try a German woman. I had a chance with one but my mind was elsewhere and now it's, like, a thing.