User talk:Alcibiades979

Your help is requested at this pt translation

Hi Alcibiades979,

I just wanted to ask if you could help out at Draft:Operation Car Wash investigations? This is a translation in progress of this pt-wiki article, and your knowledge of Portuguese would be helpful. There's also a Talk page with open questions that could use feedback from more editors. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:34, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

You deserve this barnstar!

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you for your acts in favor of ethics and our principles of etiquette. Regards. Mhhossein talk 07:32, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

@Mhhossein:Hey thank you very much for that. That stuff drives me nuts. People use all those terms to forget the fact that we're all human beings. I remember my girlfriend and I were in Asia for vacation, and we took the ferry from Macao to Hong Kong, they saw that we were Colombians so they separated us and interrogated us. She doesn't speak any english so she had no idea what was going on, so they started screaming at her thinking that that would make her understand english. They finally let us go, she was in tears. It was awful. But people see x country or skin colour, or religion and use it to forget that we're all brothers. Unfortunately I'm going to be traveling for the next couple of days so I'll not be able to contribute much to the page. Alcibiades979 (talk) 08:39, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

I imagine this was due to make sure you weren't involved in drug-smuggling, which the Red Chinese regime does not appreciate since it is not under their thumb - Colombia and other S.A. countries being notable for the drug trade. I don't think your 'skin tone' had anything to do with it. I'm surprised that someone didn't bring a spanish-speaking customs agent to talk to her, however.

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