I only interpreted what you typed, not what you meant, and you clarified that. Here is the way I read the thread: 1) Comment is made that Quintana has the face of an old man. 2) People respond saying that enough of that, there is at minimum a level of ignorance with that comment and people take offense to that (using the same analogy that all white people look the same or all asians look the same or all blacks look the same. They do NOT, you can totally tell people apart from their features and people that make those comments don't really care enough to pay attention. Same with age and Quintana). 3) a response is made that Nairo probably faked his birth certificate to validate the fact that he looks old to that person. 4) a comment is made that is totally possible for Colombians to do that because they have done it in MLB. 4) I call ***, cite that it never happened and that therefore it is an invalid argument to justify "Nairo being older". 5) It is then cited that you didn't mean Colombians, you meant "Latins". 6) I call *** on that.. 7) It is then cited that, no, I didn't mean "Latins", you meant "Latin Americans".
My last comment on this as this is getting out of control. There is evidence of people faking birth certificates, most known is people from Laos who practice having two birthdays, a Laotian birthday and an American birthday..This is mostly done for immigration reasons, speaking from experience. There is also many cited cases of Chinese athletes faking their age for Olympic qualification and of Dominican baseball players to get into MLB. There is also plenty of evidence that some Brazilian soccer players (the closest to Colombia) that have done this to look better against younger players, mainly for a chance at a better life. There has been NO cases of Colombians faking their birth certificate for any reason.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and backtrack and accept that you meant IN GENERAL some people have faked their age.
That's independent of the three things I wanted to point out and will continue to point out:
1) Lumping any country together because of common language is wrong; USA, England, Ireland, Wales, Canada and Australia all speak different dialects of English. Sometimes they can easily communicate with each other, sometimes they cannot. Same goes with spanish.
2) Lumping countries together for GENERAL proximity is wrong. Mexico, Canada, USA (what used to be the NAFTA countries) have completely different cultures. Dominican republic is much closer to USA than to Colombia. Different cultures. Haiti and DR LITERALLY border each other. Completely different cultures.
3) Making comments about someone like Nairo being old just because you can't really understand his facial features is a bit ignorant and continuing to do so over and over again is borderline racist. Using a birth certificate conspiracy theory to try to validate that isn't helping.
My last comment on this as this is getting out of control. There is evidence of people faking birth certificates, most known is people from Laos who practice having two birthdays, a Laotian birthday and an American birthday..This is mostly done for immigration reasons, speaking from experience. There is also many cited cases of Chinese athletes faking their age for Olympic qualification and of Dominican baseball players to get into MLB. There is also plenty of evidence that some Brazilian soccer players (the closest to Colombia) that have done this to look better against younger players, mainly for a chance at a better life. There has been NO cases of Colombians faking their birth certificate for any reason.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and backtrack and accept that you meant IN GENERAL some people have faked their age.
That's independent of the three things I wanted to point out and will continue to point out:
1) Lumping any country together because of common language is wrong; USA, England, Ireland, Wales, Canada and Australia all speak different dialects of English. Sometimes they can easily communicate with each other, sometimes they cannot. Same goes with spanish.
2) Lumping countries together for GENERAL proximity is wrong. Mexico, Canada, USA (what used to be the NAFTA countries) have completely different cultures. Dominican republic is much closer to USA than to Colombia. Different cultures. Haiti and DR LITERALLY border each other. Completely different cultures.
3) Making comments about someone like Nairo being old just because you can't really understand his facial features is a bit ignorant and continuing to do so over and over again is borderline racist. Using a birth certificate conspiracy theory to try to validate that isn't helping.
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