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In a country where the word "Black" derogatorily refers to poor city folks, el Gordo says the fiestas give him a chance to assert his Black identity in a positive way. The callously battered Shawshank convict (shockingly similar to the dead, brutally beaten, cellophane-wrapped Iraqi prisoner), derogatorily nicknamed "Fat-Ass," is left without medical treatment in the infirmary and succumbs to the effects of the captain's savage beating. While young men and women alike usually uttered the word jaombilo derogatorily, and while older people looked disapprovingly on the practice, the term also implies a kind of bemused sympathy, much in the same way there is a sense of adult tolerance and amusement when they comment that a child who is throwing a temper tantrum is "doing a bilo manga. |
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