Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom OK, I was working yesterday at someone's home. They were watching a Mexican TV station and it was live from Disneyland. Today they are live from DAK. Is there a national holiday in Mexico going on that the rest of us don't know about? Will there be an upcoming merger between the Disney Company and Mexico?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 What, other countries can't film at Disneyland? That automatically makes a "merger between the Disney Company and Mexico"?
Originally Posted By imadisneygal Marketing, marketing, marketing!!! Disneyland also often has Mexican TV statons and radio stations broadcasting live. I know we are a lot closer out here but it's still all about marketing.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Also, they air the Disneyland commericals in Spanish on those stations. How is that a bad thing? Should they have the "keep them Mexicans out of our park" attitude? I don't think so!
Originally Posted By typhoonCM it's an extremely common thing to see Telemundo and Univision filming in the parks.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Heck, I saw an European station filming in front of the Castle last Wednesday. Disney picks up a LOT of the costs in making these segments, as they see it as a good form of advertising... less chance to be TiVo'ed....
Originally Posted By imadisneygal I'm not sure what KT's original post was getting at, but I am pretty sure it wasn't posted because he has a "problem with Mexicans." At least I hope that's not it. I'm going to rely on his basic human decency and say that he might have been surprised that someone from so far away had traveled to be there live instead of Disney using commercials to reach the areas. It's also not unusual to have radio and TV stations from Australia. It's funny doing a "morning show" broadcasting to Sydney at 3:00 in the afternoon the day before!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Makes perfect sense to me since the state of Florida has become so prominently hispanic in population, and let's face it... WDW does get a lot of latin American business. Therefore.. many latin networks shoot special programs from WDW, just like any other american network would. Case in point is what appears to be turning into a yearly tv taping at Epcot... "The Mariachi festival From WDW" which I believe is bradcasted on Univision. Also..let's not brand everything to be Mexican... Many of those spanish stations (such as Telemundo, Univision, Galavision, Gems..etc etc) carry programming from ALL OVER latin America, including south, central and the spanish speaking caribbean islands. It's not nice to brand everyone "mexican" just because they share the same language.
Originally Posted By typhoonCM THANK YOU TDLfan.... it's difficult for latinos and latinas sometimes... loosely in the words of Carlos Mencia "you people dont understand... see you could be venezuelan, but if you go to california, you're MEXICAN... then next week, you go to Miami, and all the sudden you're CUBAN!!!"
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Also..let's not brand everything to be Mexican... Many of those spanish stations (such as Telemundo, Univision, Galavision, Gems..etc etc) carry programming from ALL OVER latin America, including south, central and the spanish speaking caribbean islands. It's not nice to brand everyone "mexican" just because they share the same language." EXCELLENT point! There are many different nationalities represented on those channels. I guess people just assume. People here in NYC automatically assume any hispanic person is Puerto Rican, when that's far from the case.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I don't have a problem with Mexicans. If I did would I be incredible amounts of time cleaning viruses and spyware off of computer's owned by Mexicans who think their pc is a toaster and don't have any antiviral software or anti spyware on their pc? I was just asking what the deal was. Geez..... Oh and for the record not everyone in South America speaks spanish. I was watching a show yesterday on Argentina and many people in that country speak Italian.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Excuse me but the homes I was in yesterday and today were owned by people of Mexican decent. The Mexican flags on display were dead giveaways.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo In Patagonia in Peru, there are more Welsh speakers than in Wales. And of course Brazil has more Portuguese speakers than Portugal!
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Yes, Argentian was settled by Italians and has a high percentage of Italian speaking people. Just like Brazil speaks mostly Portuguese.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Excuse me but the homes I was in yesterday and today were owned by people of Mexican decent. The Mexican flags on display were dead giveaways. " What does this have to do with anything? So, they were Mexicans, is that supposed to mean something?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Just don't call a Puerto Rican. "Cuban". Not pretty " Yeah, or Dominican (those two countries have a history...)
