PitBull

Armando Christian Pérez better known as the famous hip hop artist PitBull was born in Miami, Florida 30yrs ago. Though PitBull was born in America his music has a lot of hispanic influence on it, the instruments used, style, and even some of the lyrics are in Spanish. This is because PitBulls mother and father were Cuban immagrants, who made him recite the works of poet Jose Marti. This later came back to hurt him as a rapper. At a young age Armando knew he was different and not very accepted amoung peers. At the age of 16 his mom kicked him out of the house for using and selling drugs. He still managed to graduate from high school though. Later in life when he began trying to build his career in the music industry PitBull came across more struggles. He was a blue eyed second generation Cuban with Miami influences made his music like nothing out there and not highly respected. PitBull gave himself his stage name because it described him perfectly, "they bite to lock. The dog is too stupid to lose. And they're outlawed in Dade County, They're basically everything that I am. It's been a constant fight," described Armando.

Heres one of Pitbulls songs showing the Hispanic influences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIXJ2ehsdW8

Spanish Halloween!

In America we may think of Halloween as a holiday that we dress up like our favorite heros, starlets, and monsters for, going around door to door and getting free candy. What most people don't know is that our Halloween  originated in the Celtic festival Samhain and the Christian feast of All Saints' Day or The Day of the Dead. All Saints' Day is a day in which the Spanish culture spends honoring the dead. To honor there past friends and family they decorate the graves, cook their favorite food, and get a flower called marigolds to put around the grave sight. At night on The Day of the Dead all family members and friends gather to eat sing and pray in hopes that their dead loved ones will return to life.

Costa Cálida vulgarity

 A man in Murcia was sent to penal court for threatening his wife and calling her a 'Slut.' When this case was brought to Judge Juan del Olmo in the Provincial Court in Murcia he said, "Calling your wife a 'slut' is not an insult if it is to discribe an animal which has to act with special precaution." The man was finally sentenced with 8 days house arrest and 31 days community service for "light threats." The court said no more could be proved than that.