To people arguing in the Zimmerman thread. Okay peeps seemed really confused by the difference between Latino and Hispanic. And that neither of those terms is a racial category. Latino is anyone descending from Latin America. Hispanic is a Spanish speaking person of Latin descent. You can be Latino but not Hispanic, like myself, my father is Afro-Cuban but I was raised in Ohio and do not speak Spanish. I’m still Latina but not Hispanic. See the difference? Okay have a nice day.

(December 9, 2019 at 9:12 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: To people arguing in the Zimmerman thread. Okay peeps seemed really confused by the difference between Latino and Hispanic. And that neither of those terms is a racial category. Latino is anyone descending from Latin America. Hispanic is a Spanish speaking person of Latin descent. You can be Latino but not Hispanic, like myself, my father is Afro-Cuban but I was raised in Ohio and do not speak Spanish. I’m still Latina but not Hispanic. See the difference? Okay have a nice day.

Whether Zimmerman was Latino or Hispanic is quite beside the point. He murdered a 17 year old young man. The distinction between Latino versus Hispanic becomes very minute when you consider that he's a murderer, and most likely a racist at that. And yes, Latinos and Hispanic people can be racist. Imagine that! So can blacks, whites, greens, yellows and purples. Racism is not a black versus white phenomenon.

But, yes, even by your definition, Zimmerman was Hispanic, though I think that's quite beside the point.

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But yes, I agree. "Latino" is not a race just as "white" is not a race. In fact, I don't even know what you would consider a race. Maybe people of a certain country? So Italians could be one race and Polish another? But even then, I'm sure there is a hugely diversified group of people who come from Italy and call themselves "Italians," - I'm sure it's just the same with Polish people. Overall, I think we largely get way too hung up on these words.

If you're an honest, decent person, I couldn't give a single flying fuck about any nationality, ethnic origin, religious or sexual preferences. Or any of the other irrelevant little boxes humans put themselves in.

Thank you very much Have a nice day.

I put "Martian" as my race once. Nobody blinked. They'd already seen "Zoroastrian" in the Religion box.

We have one species, three kinds of skeletal structure, and a dozen skin tones. Given how language works, race can be a fluid term.

What are the three types of skeleton structures?

Caucazoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid. I found that out a long time ago, when people were talking about how differences only go skin deep. except apparently some differences do go deeper.

Mongoloid, Negroid, Caucasoid. I think. I was a physics major at uni, so this memory is likely from age 11.

https://depts.washington.edu/bonebio/bonAbout/race.html

Wow. I never would have thought our skeletons would be different.

For race - I always pencil in "1/4 mile".....