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[Madan Azibé]

(FOWARDED TO ME VIA EMAIL)

1. Matching the colors of your clothes is mandatory.

2. White socks with shoes is not fashionable. It never was.

3."Bien Etre" is not a classy perfume.

4. Black IS beautiful.

5. Marie-***** should not be the name of every woman in your family or every child you have.

6. She married Aristide for the money.

7. Not every person with locks (dreads) is a "vagabond".

8. You don't have to go to church in your best clothes. It's not a fashion show.

9. The Pope is not God.

10. Rapping in English with a heavy accent is annoying.

11. Speaking French, living in a white neighborhood, and driving a Benz does not mean "you have arrived" or finally made it.

12. Having a security job does not mean you are a cop.

13. A Home Health Aide or CNA is not a Nurse.

14. Women with underarm hair is NOT sexy, at least not in America.

15. Expired medication should not be sent to Haiti to be sold "nan > > ti mache".

16. A machete is not a tool.

17. A knife is not a screwdriver.

18. Asking your child if he or she did their homework does not constitute "checking their homework".

19. "Lwil Maskriti" does not help in curing Cancer, Diabetes or Cysts. Go to the doctor!

20. "Mademoiselle, voulez-vous m'accordez cette danse" can still be used to ask a woman to dance instead of "Epps, ti cherie, an al danse' ".

21. Just because you buy a woman a drink at a party doesn't mean you just married her.

22. Dancing close does not mean you getting some.

23. "She's dark BUT she's still beautiful" immediately shows your stupidity and is NOT a compliment.

24. A moo-moo is not sexy.

25. The Haitian flag should not be worn as clothing.

26. Sending food to your family in Haiti does not constitute giving back to the community.

27. There is something wrong with working two jobs as a housecleaner and a security guard in the United States just so you canpay for the maid and the "jeran lakou" in Haiti.

28. Haitian patties need more meat.

29. The plastic can be taken off of your living room furniture.

30. Spending more than you make will eventually catch up with you.

31. Usher is not Haitian.

32. Maids are not hired to be your personal hoe.

33. It's ok if you don't speak French.

34. Not everyone is from Port-Au-Prince, Petion-Ville or Cap-Haitian. Let's be real.

35. In business, competition is actually good; no need to kill or burn your competitors business.

IF YOU HAVE MORE, ADD THEM TO THIS LIST LOL

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[TiCam]

Ways To Tell if you're of Haïtian Origin

You know that you're Haïtian when:

1. You point at things and people with your lips.

2. Gryot ak Banan Peze is your favorite meal.

3. You dip bread in your coffee, hot chocolate, and even certain kinds of liquor (Kremas).

4. You twuipé when you're fed up.

5. The US is made up of only three cities: Miami, New York , Boston.

6. You ate rice within the past 3 days. Or you haven't eaten rice in the last three days and have an undefined craving.

7. Your house is so packed with meubles and biblos that you can't even take two steps, and there is an entire room in your house that no one is allowed to go in because they are reserved for company.

8. You have three sets a china:

1) Odd, even, and mix-matched plates, bowls, glasses and cups for your own household.

2) A set decorated with flowers that is only reserved for company that you haven't seen in years or extremely special occasions.

3) A set in the display cabinet that will only come out for careful cleaning and then go right back in.

9. You prefer pepper in your peanut butter sandwich rather than jelly.

10. If someone says that the party starts at 6 PM, then you know not to show up until 10 PM because it's impolite.

[Maeva002]

1. Stop saying you are Jamaican while you don't even speak english (they are not better than us).

2. You are speaking creole with a friend, when someone is coming close to you you start speaking english because you don't want the stanger to konw you are Haitian (guess what? the stranger doesn't care)

3. Stop staring at people you don't know because it is rude to do so.

4. Stop trying to listen to others' conversation on the bus or the street; it is none of your business.

5. Stop telling people about what you possess this is America and owning a TV set, a Computer, a car, or a refrigerator doesn't mean you are "yon gran fanm (neg)".

6. Because I'm making progress it doesn't mean I am a bad person. Stop the gossip. Just try to do better than me.

[intruder]

I think i got one...

Things haitians should think about:

An overwhelming majority of Americans only speak english so english is the US's official language. Makes perfect sense right?

An overwhelming majority of French people only speak french so frenchh is France's official language. Makes perfect sense right?

An overwhelming majority of Haitians only speak creole so creole is .......... Wait a minute. That would make too much sense. Let's make French the official language.

Whoever in 1804 thought of that should get his own section in the Jackass Moves Hall Of Fame

Originally Posted by TiCam

Ways To Tell if you're of Haïtian Origin

You know that you're Haïtian when:

3. You dip bread in your coffee, hot chocolate, and even certain kinds of liquor (Kremas).

4. You twuipé when you're fed up.

6. You ate rice within the past 3 days. Or you haven't eaten rice in the last three days and have an undefined craving.

7. Your house is so packed with meubles and biblos that you can't even take two steps, and there is an entire room in your house that no one is allowed to go in because they are reserved for company.

You need to make more foreing friends. The list of nationalities that do this 10 times more than we do is a looonnnggg one believe it or not

[TiCam]

Originally Posted by intruder

An overwhelming majority of Haitians only speak creole so creole is .......... Wait a minute. That would make too much sense. Let's make French the official language.

For your information creole is also the official language of Haiti.

[intruder]

Originally Posted by Madan Azibé

(FOWARDED TO ME VIA EMAIL)

2. White socks with shoes is not fashionable. It never was.

But Michael Jackson said its okay

Originally Posted by Madan Azibé

7. Not every person with locks (dreads) is a "vagabond".

Amen

Originally Posted by Madan Azibé

16. A machete is not a tool.

What is it then?

Originally Posted by Madan Azibé

22. Dancing close does not mean you getting some.

Ahhh man

Originally Posted by Madan Azibé

31. Usher is not Haitian.

Neither is Michael Jordan or any other African American ya'll try to claim

Originally Posted by Madan Azibé

32. Maids are not hired to be your personal hoe.

Ahhh man. I'm gonna cancel my plans to move to Haiti

Originally Posted by TiCam

For your information creole is also the official language of Haiti.

TiCam.. i miss you my dear. Did you miss me?

Dont know if you noticed but i did say in 1804.

It wasnt until the 1990's that the change was made. Took us over 185 years to realize that 75 percent of our citizens could not understand most of our basic legal communications BECAUSE it was not in their language. Way to go to the geniuses making those decisions

*claps real hard*

lol Dont mind me TiCam... II'm my own and my people's toughest critique. I only do it out of love cause if i didnt love them i wouldnt waste the time to think of things like that

[TiCam]

Don't worry I also criticize when things are not right. However, creole is official only because its a popular language. As of today there are no legal translation for text books, bible, constitution, laws, they are all in French. We have no grammatical rules for the creole "language". Haitians from Boston, Brooklyn, Canada each has their own grammar for creole. I can go on and on, that is why I rather not have any discussion about creole as the official language of Haiti.

Good exchange Intruder and don't wait so long to drop by again. Good night hope to see you soon!

[intruder]

Originally Posted by TiCam

Don't worry I also criticize when things are not right. However, creole is official only because its a popular language. As of today there are no legal translation for text books, bible, constitution, laws, they are all in French. We have no grammatical rules for the creole "language". Haitians from Boston, Brooklyn, Canada each has their own grammar for creole. I can go on and on, that is why I rather not have any discussion about creole as the official language of Haiti.

WRONG

In case you didnt know i moved to haiti again between when i was 5 years old to 13. CREOLE WAS THOUGHT TO ME IN SCHOOL THEN (and we're talking late 80's early 90's here)

Also many other countries speak creole (Guadeloupe, Dominica & Martinique, Maurituis islands in Africa) Though they have their own slight variattion of creole the overall language is the same just as English in the US and English in Australia is different but the same.

The problem is rather than create our own path we as a nation became followers and thought we needed to speak only french, then the major language in the world, to be accepted in the international community.

By Doing this we were welcomed in the francophone communities but alienated our own poorer, uneducated citizens who didnt speak the language were trying to adopt while betraying our own african roots.

[TiCam]

What's the use of teaching creole in school when there is no grammar?