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“Fatty” is a Term of Endearment

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

How would you like to be known as “The Fat One”? Your answer may reveal a lot about which culture you come from.

North Americans, for example, have been showered for decades with ads designed to instill fear about having body odor, bad breath, body weight, and Head & Shoulders has desperately tried to imply that dandruff flakes belong to the ’so-disgusting- that-you-can’t-be-loved- until-you-purchase-our-product’ list.

Europeans, on the other hand, are not so paranoid about body odor and other such concerns. If you’ve stood in a crowded metro during summer, you may have noticed.

The Spanish frequently refer to overweight children as “gordito” – fatty – and it’s not meant nor taken as a put down.

It doesn’t hurt, of course, that Europe’s biggest lottery is named “The Fat One.” Yep. That’s what El Gordo means in Spanish, as in El Gordo primitiva lottery.

I don’t care where you’re from – you can’t tell me that winning the title “El Gordo” via the lottery won’t make a heck of a lot of people a lot more fond of you.

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