NT Master
Prophet of the Racepill
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Imagine if I said that George Bush, Bobby Jindal, and Herman Cain were all the same race/ethnicity since they're "Anglos" who come from an English-speaking culture. That sounds ridiculous! It is clear that George Bush is White, Bobby Jindal is Indian (from India), and Herman Cain is Black. They look visually different and each one faces different racial and sociological issues. But that is what this whole Hispanic/Latino identity is doing! It is claiming that Cameron Diaz, David Ortiz, and Evo Morales have a similar racial/ethnic background. Sure, you can argue that there are cultural, linguistic, and religious similarities between the two, but there are also cultural, linguistic, and religious similarities between White Americans and Black Americans and they don't get grouped up as the same ethnicity under some "British" identity.
So this whole Hispanic/Latino thing has been this long running euphemistic attempt to avoid calling the brown people coming from Latin America what most of them really are, mixed-race and instead you have this obfuscating "Hispanic" neologism that arbitrarily groups individuals of different races together just because of nationality and inadvertently gives minority representation to a bunch of people who are genetically 95+% European instead of the dark-skinned ones. White Hispanics are white period. Black Hispanics are Black period. The actual race of most people in Latin America is Mestizo which is a half-white and indigenous person. Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Brazil are full of mulattoes which are half-white and half-black people.
Here are some important infographics:
So from now on, please don't use the term Hispanic/Latino outside of linguistic contexts. The experience of a brown-haired green-eyed Spaniard named Martin Sheen is nothing like the experience of a dark-skinned Mayan man named Moctezuma Xochitl from Guatemala; even if both of them speak Spanish. Whenever people talk about Latinas, I get annoyed because I have no idea if they're talking about some White chick with an accent or a fat and brown-skinned squatemalan.
So this whole Hispanic/Latino thing has been this long running euphemistic attempt to avoid calling the brown people coming from Latin America what most of them really are, mixed-race and instead you have this obfuscating "Hispanic" neologism that arbitrarily groups individuals of different races together just because of nationality and inadvertently gives minority representation to a bunch of people who are genetically 95+% European instead of the dark-skinned ones. White Hispanics are white period. Black Hispanics are Black period. The actual race of most people in Latin America is Mestizo which is a half-white and indigenous person. Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Brazil are full of mulattoes which are half-white and half-black people.
Here are some important infographics:
So from now on, please don't use the term Hispanic/Latino outside of linguistic contexts. The experience of a brown-haired green-eyed Spaniard named Martin Sheen is nothing like the experience of a dark-skinned Mayan man named Moctezuma Xochitl from Guatemala; even if both of them speak Spanish. Whenever people talk about Latinas, I get annoyed because I have no idea if they're talking about some White chick with an accent or a fat and brown-skinned squatemalan.
