Are you mexican?

[mugs]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: GrumpyMan
I'm Argentinian and if anyone calls an Argentine a Mexican, you've got a fight on your hands. And vice versa I'm sure. Hispanic for Spain. Latino for everyone north of Argentina and south of Texas.

so you look very similar in physical features, can easily be mislabeled by the majority of the world, yet you would start a fight because someone mistook you for a different country's people? thats a bit on the derrr side to me... get over it, tell them you are argentinian (a latin american country, btw) and move on with your day. pride in roots is one thing, but taking it to the extreme of fighting over it is just asinine.

No different than calling a Korean Chinese, or a Japanese Korean. I've done it before and had them absolutely blow up over it. They claim they look nothing alike and I'm ignorant as shit for not being able to tell them apart. But I don't see enough of them enough to be able notice the differences.

Go to a Scottish Pride Festival and call one of them Irish. I bet it'll lead to a fight, even if it's just verbal. And if you ever call an Irishman Scottish, you can expect to come to fisticuffs. lol

That's why if you don't know, you should use a term that you can be reasonably confident is correct. And that's why we use hispanic to refer to Mexicans if we don't know they're Mexican. If you don't know if someone is Chinese, Japanese or Korean you can just call them Asian.

 

[UNCjigga]

I'm Indian (red dot, not feather) so I suppose I'm 95% Mexican/Hispanic. I mean, I like spicy food, right?

 

[natto fire]

Racial tensions are more in the delivery than the actual phrase. Much to ATOT's detriment, you have to have style and character to let anything fly, and will be called on everything if you are meek and deliver your words as so.

 

[Chaotic42]

White people need a rule book, preferably one updated regularly, to keep track of what we are and aren't allowed to say.

That would help out a lot.

 

[Chronoshock]

Originally posted by: QueBert

No different than calling a Korean Chinese, or a Japanese Korean. I've done it before and had them absolutely blow up over it. They claim they look nothing alike and I'm ignorant as shit for not being able to tell them apart. But I don't see enough of them enough to be able notice the differences.

Go to a Scottish Pride Festival and call one of them Irish. I bet it'll lead to a fight, even if it's just verbal. And if you ever call an Irishman Scottish, you can expect to come to fisticuffs. lol

One thing to point out regarding distinguishing Chinese/Japanese/Korean is that, especially for the older generation, there's a lot of bad blood between them from previous wars. My grandparents hate anything Japanese from their memories of Japanese soldiers invading. It's one thing to get mistaken for another ethnicity, and its another to get mistaken for your enemy.

As for distinguishing between different Asian groups, I agree it can be difficult. There are certain sets of traits that characterize each, but I wouldn't get pissed if someone called me Japanese or Korean (I'm Chinese). What would bother me is if someone is willfully ignorant (ex: "You're Chinese? Whatever, you're all the same"). Intention is the important thing here.

The OP meant no ill will, so the girl is an idiot for being offended.

 

[GiggleGirl]

NVM

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Stupid Chicano girl, if you are Mexican then you are hispanic unless you are an indian.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
I just got railed on facebook for saying a girl looked Hispanic to me. She's mexican. Apparently, I'm culturally ignorant.

Tell her if she keeps crying you'll call INS.
She might be a legal citizen, but assuming she has any friends or relatives that are illegals, she will get scared and shut up.

Its how I keep all the asshole Mexicans off my ass here in Northern Virginia. They are extremely uppity and self-rightous considering they're criminal invaders.

She sounds like an american of Mexican descent who doesnt know wtf she is talking about, not a real Mexican.

 

[HannibalX]

I'll make it simple for you guys:

Mexican is a nationality, not a race.

Hispanic is a term applied to Spanish indentured servants and colonists who colonized Central and South America - it does not refer to the native Indians in Central or South America. The word literally translates "Property of the King".

Many people of Spanish decent take offense to the term Hispanic today because it implies a lower status. Many people of Spanish decent prefer the term "Latino" to describe their region of origin. Latino is not a racial descriptor however.

If you insist on calling a person of Spanish decent by a racial term the correct term to use is "white". It gets complicated when the person is of mixed Central American Indian (brown people) and European Spaniard (white people) decent and in this case I would personally use the term "Latino" if the person in question originated from Central or South America. If from North America the term is just "American".

Having said ALL of that I prefer to call people by their names.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
White people need a rule book, preferably one updated regularly, to keep track of what we are and aren't allowed to say.

That would help out a lot.

No, it wouldnt.

Non-whites all like to hear different things. They cant agree on exactly whats best for them. The one thing they might be willing to agree on is its all whitey's fault and he should fix it.

 

[dudeman007]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: mugs
Hispanics are anyone from any Spanish speaking country, including Spain and Mexico. It is not an offensive term. You could also call her latina, and that is not offensive.

She later posted that "Hispanic is a useless term coined by the US government for use in census, and is equally as ignorant and offensive as the word "Oriental"

Although she's getting pissed over nothing...she's right about the creation of the word. Look it up.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Mexicans are Mexican, Puerto Ricans are Puetro Ricans. Hispanic is a very generic and broad term. And the majority of Latino/Latina people I know take great pride in their heritage. To a lot of Mexicans, calling them Hispanic would be smiliar to calling a Puerto Rican Cuban or Dominican. A lot have told me "my Ancestors were Aztec" (or Mayan etc)

Yea well tell them if they are not dark and short then they probably have no native blood in them at all and probably have almost all Spanish blood. You can always tell which have a lot of native blood cus they are all really dark and shorter. I just tell them that they are Spanish and probably have 10% native in them.

 

[WildHorse]

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[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: scott
Although slightly "off topic," this is related.

"What is Wrong with Mexico?":moon:

That guy in the orange shirt needs to sit the freak down. :|