(December 28, 2016 at 2:30 pm)Secular Elf Wrote:I think the American concept of a "Hispanic race" is ridiculous, and confuses a lot of people from elsewhere. It's literally the only country in the world where two people can look identical, but be "different races", because one speaks Spanish and the other doesn't.(December 28, 2016 at 1:04 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Who cares, except as a historical curiosity? The term has ceased to have any objective meaning whatsoever, if it ever did, the same as any other racial classifiers.
Good point, yet in most forms you have to sign in the United States by the government, all the usual racial classification terms are there: "Caucasian" or White (Non-Hispanic) White Hispanic, or just Hispanic, Black or African-American, etc., etc.
Not knocking "Hispanic" or "Latino" as cultural identities, that's legitimate, it's just not a race.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
