Monkeys --- In Spanish, we have another encapsulated narrative, which is actually kind of discriminatory and politically incorrect nowadays, but it goes: "Even if a monkey dresses in silk, it remains a monkey"! And when heard, it is understood that it means that no matter how people try to cover-up something (usually having to do with social class or caste), they in the end remain where they were. It´s quite an ugly thing to say, but my point is that the listener automatically understands the allusion and its subversion in a blink, as stated above.

Source author: Christian Peter Clay Mendoza cclay@sre.gob.mx