I read Miguel’s post Kids nowadays need to learn some history.
It struck a nerve with me because it touched on an issue that had bothered me for a while.
It is time that we get rid of the Latino/Latina/Latinx demographic. It is racist and it makes no sense. The new census designation of “non-white Hispanic” is nearly as bad.
What does it mean? According to the US Census, almost nothing.
“Hispanic or Latino” refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of
race.
So they could be full blooded white European of noble Spanish (meaning from Spain) heritage, which means they shade DNA with the French and German. Remember King Charles II of Spain was a Habsburg. He was such a Hubsburg that his parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were Habsburgs too.
Not to mention a lot of people in Spain have Arabic or North African heritage form the time of the Moorish Empire.
Latino could also mean that a person who is genetically related to the Pueblo, Navajo, Anasazi or any of the other tribes that lived in the American South West. If there were north of the border they would be Native Americans, but because in the 1800’s they were south of an arbitrary border, they are now Latino.
That of course doesn’t include the people who are of native Central or South American heritage, who are genetically Inca, Aztec, Olmec, native Caribbean Islanders, or anything else.
Then there are the many more people who are a mix of native tribe, European, and possibly freed or runaway African slaves.
The problem is the Left has decided that Latino/Latina is a identity group in the POC umbrella. This means benefiting from identity politics victim cred.
My best fried was born in America to Venezuelan immigrant parents and is bilingual. That makes him Latino.
He has a family coat of Arms that he can trace all the way back to Spain on one side and Monaco on the other. His grandfather lived in a Villa on the French Riviera until he passed.
My poor oppressed Latino buddy who white Liberals condescend to thinking that he’s the offspring of Mexican migrants (be was born in Oklahoma because his parents were in the educated people Oil Industry, not picking lettuce).
There is no unifying Latino/Latina experience. Hell, even the language is totally different. Try watching an Argentinian and a Puerto Rican have a conversation. It’s like watching a person speaking Partisan French try to talk to someone speaking Haitian Creole. Deep South American English is closer to Cockney than some of the colonial Spanish or French dialects to each other.
This demographic breakdown could be anything of any native American, European, or African ethnicity, socioeconomic, or cultural background.
Latino/Latina can really be nothing more than “I called my grandmother Abuelita so I deserve Social Justice victim status.”
Granted the Census definition of white is just as bad.
“White” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples
of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as “White” or reported entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan, or Caucasian.
But nobody on college campuses or in politics is really rushing to identify as white if they have one drop of anything else in them.
These demographic breakdowns are so bad, so pointless, it is time to get rid of them. They mean practically nothing except for their ability to isolate people into groups and fight.
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