Are Latinos/Hispanics considered a race in America?
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Joker |
Date: Wednesday, 02/Sep/09, 2:41 PM | Message # 16 |
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you have to have a Latin American background to be called Latino
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Menace |
Date: Wednesday, 02/Sep/09, 3:01 PM | Message # 17 |
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Quote (Joker) you have to have a Latin American background to be called Latino in general inherently you have a Latin American background if your born there LOL
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El_Matador |
Date: Wednesday, 02/Sep/09, 3:32 PM | Message # 18 |
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Quote (ThaScience) to tell u the truth menace this is a bate thread, I already knew everything what u said but i wanted to know what other people from america thought, and what eric said is what ive been hearing. but this is the scenario ive come across. a black person, 100% african from Dominican Republic isnt black, but is Latino cos they speak Spanish? n ive been there n there mostly dark skin black, then mixed then white. but All of them are Latino. for me that word dont exist, like we say here in london. they wither black, mixed race (black/white/native.. either of the 3) or white. like umm, J-Lo.. Mixed. probably from native n white, (maybe 4+ generations ago some black. who knows.) AZ.. Black. Che.. white. (argentianian, with spanish/irish roots) but they are 3 different ppl. but No, cos they spk Spanish they are Latino. well ppl say AZ is black, but most black dominicans say there not black but latino.. In London you got only whites, blacks, yellows and eventually people with arabic descent, there's no latinos. If you really look exotic being latino (rican, colombian, chilean), just like Thirstin Howl 3, they'll say that you are arabic Quote (J-Breakz) I didn't no being called hispanic is disrespectful Kid Frost called himself hispanic on his debut album (even tho he's mexican from LA lol)
MENACE 2 JOKER: Go back to Mexico you damn spic JOKER 2 MENACE: Shut up you fake nigga your a damn sand nigger not a full nigger 
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Chinita |
Date: Wednesday, 02/Sep/09, 6:23 PM | Message # 19 |
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its like erik said to begin with, itssss complicated!!!! but no its not a race and hard to explain what we mean when we say hispanic, sometimes meaning something different everywhere. i'm hispanic and all i can tell u is how we been using the word hispanic in many spanish communities i was raised in where our friends are dominicans, equadorians, perurivians, mexicans, columbianos, cubans, puerto ricans etc.many of us at least in the united states that i know of, dont mind being called hispanic, We would normally say i'm mexican, i'm puerto rican, i'm equadorian but i think it means something different to others..i tell people i'm hispanic and for many of us latino and hispanic iis used in the same way when we conversate in spanish amongst each other, much like referring to a korean or japanese american as Asian. now in spanish it dont sound so bad lol but when white people say it, it can mean something different to them but not much amongst us..its not a race, its ethnicity, a culture, our language, way of living, customs.. sometimes we use latina, latino when we talk as meaning the same thing as hispanic, it all depends..i would say si yo soy hispana or latina or spanish not meaning i'm from spain but that i'm of the hispanic culture, raised, state of mind, traditions, meals etc. or my parents which ever it may be. in our community one might ask, tu eres hispana? (hispana meaning hispanic female) would be the first thing another hispanic person might ask me and i would say yes. meaning are you spanish or hispanic? then after that we would mention our herritage, ancestors, country, place of birth and its done.. in applications, forms, kids to be registered in school we have the check marks..white, black, hispanic/latino. i check off hispanic even though its not a race but there is nothing else or hispanic and mixed if its there, my oldest son is half italian, irish, puerto rican and he checks off both, white/hispanic. thats all i could explain is what i've seen in our hispanic mixed communities here in the states, well at least in the east coast, i can't speak for any other areas..
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Menace |
Date: Thursday, 03/Sep/09, 12:27 PM | Message # 20 |
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Quote (LadyChinita) its ethnicity, a culture, our language, way of living, customs. exactly that was my point to TheScience
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J-Breakz |
Date: Thursday, 03/Sep/09, 6:24 PM | Message # 21 |
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btw why do so many ppl fret about this? I constantly read and hear of cats givin shit to ppl cuz (even tho they come from a latino family) theyr full white so theyr not allowed to identify themselves as a latino. also ppl givin shit to half americans and half latinos for identifyin themselves as latino.
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J-Breakz |
Date: Friday, 04/Sep/09, 1:25 AM | Message # 22 |
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Quote (Joker13) how can you be full white and have a latino family... i know quite a few white mexicans. and some white argentinians. theyr white but also latino. An example is Pitbull, i watched one of his interviews on youtube and got a lot of hate cuz he's white even tho he is latino.
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Boner-Jamz-11 |
Date: Friday, 04/Sep/09, 1:52 AM | Message # 23 |
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That doesn't make sense
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J-Breakz |
Date: Friday, 04/Sep/09, 3:38 AM | Message # 24 |
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Quote (EYAR15) That doesn't make sense ok there are people born in Latin America that are Caucasian. The Caucasion latinos get hate cuz even tho they identify themselves as latinos, other ppl think they should act like a American white. Tho really Im talkin mostly about Caucasion kids who wore born here but have immigrant parents from countries in Latin America.
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EmSeeD |
Date: Friday, 04/Sep/09, 3:42 AM | Message # 25 |
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Quote (J-Breakz) got a lot of hate cuz he's white even tho he is latino. man that's so stupid, why would latino's be like that, hate a guy just coz he's half white.
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J-Breakz |
Date: Friday, 04/Sep/09, 3:49 AM | Message # 26 |
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Quote (EmSeeD) man that's so stupid, why would latino's be like that, hate a guy just coz he's half white. well no, here and from what i see in the internet its European-Americans that pull that crap. Mexicans here have called me and other half-white kids juero n shit but rlly im talkin about European-Americans baggin on full caucasion latinos. For example, I kno Terminology got a lotta hate on youtube about that.
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Message edited by J-Breakz - Friday, 04/Sep/09, 3:51 AM
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EmSeeD |
Date: Friday, 04/Sep/09, 3:50 AM | Message # 27 |
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here we just say Half Cast, if someone's half white, actually we don't even say white we just say European or Pakeha. i'm half white half Fijian
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El_Matador |
Date: Friday, 04/Sep/09, 9:42 AM | Message # 28 |
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Quote (J-Breakz) Terminology He's trully latino in 50%. Evidence claiming that his father was Rican but for real his father was italian. And I never met anyone who'd hate on Ev.
MENACE 2 JOKER: Go back to Mexico you damn spic JOKER 2 MENACE: Shut up you fake nigga your a damn sand nigger not a full nigger 
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J-Breakz |
Date: Friday, 04/Sep/09, 2:58 PM | Message # 29 |
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Quote (Joker13) they never get hate... they only get made fun of but that's regular things... european-american whites was giving a lot of shit to term and pitbull about it. Some mexicans have given me shit for being half white but yeah ur right, they have thought of me as 1 of them for the most part.
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Message edited by J-Breakz - Friday, 04/Sep/09, 2:59 PM
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ThaScience |
Date: Tuesday, 08/Sep/09, 9:19 AM | Message # 30 |
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Quote (El_Matador) In London you got only whites, blacks, yellows and eventually people with arabic descent, there's no latinos. there are, in islington north ldn near where i live. n loads in the south of the river theres alot of latin clubs in elephant and castle, get urself down there.. Quote (LadyChinita) its not a race, its ethnicity, a culture, our language, way of living, customs.. thats what i always thought, oh n i see menace quted the same thing. well u still seem lost from my point of view. i was askin why america goes and put it in a sensus form (whatever spl) next to asian, white, black. cos it dont make sense to me. that was all.
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