# Well, prick, your not IN Latin America- SO TURN DOWN THE FUCKING MUSIC!!!!!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 3, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-prick-your-not-in-latin-america-so-turn-down-the-fucking-music/96660 "2001-12-03T17:46:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-prick-your-not-in-latin-america-so-turn-down-the-fucking-music/96660/41 "2001-12-06T01:28:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by FallenAngel \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by jaimest \*  
> > **This must be a Puerto Rican/Cuban/Dominican thing. I live in a nearly all Mexican-American neighborhood and don’t notice much loud music from homes. Occasionally from a car, but almost never from a house. And its usually not of the wall shaking salsa variety, but slower music.**
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> I have to disagree here. I don’t have much experience with the Caribbean communities you mentioned, but living in Ariz., some of the Mexicans in my old apartment complex were guilty of this on a regular basis in both the apartment and their cars. Of course, many of the anglo college students were just as bad or worse.
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Well part of it was I didn’t live in an apartment, but a middle class neighborhood of homes mainly inhabited by older people or families, from Mexican backgrounds. And very few if any single people. People there didn’t listen to much tejano, which is sort of the equivalent to country music, or any rap at all. (To me it sounds very weird that the kids who would listen to rap play tejano…when I was a kid, tejano was very ‘uncool’).If you did hear music it would be softer music (Marco Antonio Solis, Luis Miguel, Rocio Durcal…not exactly wall rattling) or just ordinary pop and rock - especially oldies, 60’s rock. Heavy Metal was the preferred music of rebellion…

Of course I also think I talk like a normal American, but when I call a friend from out of state, I am reminded I have an “foreign accent”. So maybe what to me is sort of mild everyday music coming from a neighbor is insufferable racket to someone from another background?

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**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-prick-your-not-in-latin-america-so-turn-down-the-fucking-music/96660/42 "2001-12-06T16:45:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ElwoodCuse \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by Vinnie Virginslayer \*  
> > Actually Allentown WAS a nice city . . .especially the downtown . . .20 years ago . . .until the garbage started moving in.
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> Was that when they started closing all the factories down?
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Actually… yes.  
No jobs, means the rents go down, or the houses go empty. And the rents going down means that you get people moving in who previously couldn’t afford it. And so, Allentown went to hell. I went to school at Lafeyette, so I just know the basics… but what the heck do you think the song’s _about_?

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