2007-02-25 05:00:17 · 3 answers · asked by adaughe176 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's a Spanish expression, a person uses it to express that one way or the other, the same thing happens to him/her. Like "if its not A, its B, thing is, I always lose". "Si no dinga es mandinga, la cuestión es que siempre pierdo".
2007-02-25 07:38:36 · answer #1 · answered by Bianca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Latin America mainly in the Caribbean, the term is used to reference the African blood shared by the population. The phrase used especially to those who tried to deny their mixed ancestral heritage, It didn't matter how blonde or blue eyed you were, If you didn't have "Dinga" (Dinka) blood chances are you had Mandinga ( Mandinka) blood. The Mandinka, Malinke (also known as Mandinko or Mandingo) is a West African ethnic group, The Dinka people are an ethnic group inhabiting the Bahr el Ghazal region of the Nile basin. But the names were used to describe all slaves brought to the Caribbean. The term si no es "dinga es mandinga." has evolved to also reference "murphy's law". It doesn't matter what you do, the outcome is still negative.
2014-06-04 10:17:08 · answer #2 · answered by CarlosV Flores 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is used to say that always something happens (mostly bad)
so if it is not one thing it is the other.
si no es dinga es mandinga.
2007-02-25 08:58:31 · answer #3 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋