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If you live in the springboard jump position to be offended, you can always find a way. In my experience, "Dark Continent" or "Dark Area" was an area considered unknown and mysterious and often unmapped or with limited mapping. "Red Zone" was a dangerous and enemy controlled or operated area. None of these names had anything to do with anyone's skin or race. As I have been retired for 18 years, I am sure the new "woke leadership" developed a 112 slide power point presentation for mandatory training explaining how people without a purpose in life are offended. Again, in my experience, the people that are offended by common terms and names are normally some of the biggest racists you will ever meet.
I am sitting at a small coffee shop in the mountains of Colombia writing this. Most everyone knows me here as I am the only Gringo (doesn't offend me) and my wife is directly or remotely related to the entire town. As I sit here, most everyone that passes greets me or stops to talk to me. They all call me "Don Mono". Literally it means "Mr. Whitey". It also means "Mr. Monkey". Mono is cute/pale/blond as an adjective and monkey when it is a noun. I resemble both.![Laugh :LOL: :LOL:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f606.png)
I am not offended at all.
Rapport is something that is a lot of work to gain, yet it can be lost quite easily. When rapport is lost, it takes a lot of sincere effort to regain it.
Well, my favorite cantina just opened. "Don Mono" is going to swing over there and have a whisky.
Welcome to AH, Bwana Moja.
I am sitting at a small coffee shop in the mountains of Colombia writing this. Most everyone knows me here as I am the only Gringo (doesn't offend me) and my wife is directly or remotely related to the entire town. As I sit here, most everyone that passes greets me or stops to talk to me. They all call me "Don Mono". Literally it means "Mr. Whitey". It also means "Mr. Monkey". Mono is cute/pale/blond as an adjective and monkey when it is a noun. I resemble both.
![Laugh :LOL: :LOL:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f606.png)
![Laugh :LOL: :LOL:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f606.png)
Rapport is something that is a lot of work to gain, yet it can be lost quite easily. When rapport is lost, it takes a lot of sincere effort to regain it.
Well, my favorite cantina just opened. "Don Mono" is going to swing over there and have a whisky.
![Laugh :LOL: :LOL:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f606.png)
Welcome to AH, Bwana Moja.
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