Massachussets Mayor Can't Speak English

@Cliff-Mashburn said
That's exactly my point, thanks for agreeing.
How many Mexicans/South Americans/Puerto Ricans/Cubans have Spanish ancestors?
Even if they had one or two from ten generations back, they sure ain't Spanish now.
They had a language and religion stomped on them by the brutal Spanish colonizers, and we call them Hispanic because of that, but there is nothing in their ...[text shortened]... eryone from Mexico on downward.,
People from Spain are Spanish.....not Hispanic.
Just my opinion.

How many Mexicans/South Americans/Puerto Ricans/Cubans have Spanish ancestors?
Even if they had one or two from ten generations back, they sure ain't Spanish now.

Then don't call them Hispanic. Call them what they are. American Indians. And don't insult their language because it's a white peoples' language.

Unless it's not about whiteness...it's about being Anglo-Saxon. You know, because you're focused on the English vs Spanish language rivalry and not the race of the people.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Only 100,000 Somalians live in Minnesota right now, no big deal, right?
In two generations it will be a million, two more after that itll be 10 million, then 20, 30, 40 million, with no end in sight.

That must be why the Irish have replaced all other people in America with their ten kids per family and all that.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2626340/business-economy

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is approaching a demographic crossroads, with birth rates dropping from 44 births per 1,000 people in 1980 to 16 in 2023, according to World Bank data.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Lawrence, Massachussets, population 100,000....new mayor asked for an interpretor in court because his English is so poor. Quick check showed that white population is 15%, hispanic is 80%.
Massachussets? Lily-white New England, and the mayor can barely speak English?
Tell me again how the replacement theory is just a lot of baloney.

Where do you live and how does that affect you?

@Cliff-Mashburn said
You always ask disingenuous questions that you know the answer to.
Take a group photo of a bunch of Germans/Swedes/French/English/Irish/etc. and put one Mexican somewhere in the middle, and tell me you don't see the difference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OcM23Hbs5U

Dammit! I have exceeded my alert-quota for today.

@AThousandYoung said
That must be why the Irish have replaced all other people in America with their ten kids per family and all that.

How dare you paint my parents as under-achievers!

😉

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Lawrence, Massachussets, population 100,000....new mayor asked for an interpretor in court because his English is so poor. Quick check showed that white population is 15%, hispanic is 80%.
Massachussets? Lily-white New England, and the mayor can barely speak English?
Tell me again how the replacement theory is just a lot of baloney.

In that case, why don't we back up a few hundred years when it comes to the American continents . . .

@AThousandYoung said

How many Mexicans/South Americans/Puerto Ricans/Cubans have Spanish ancestors?
Even if they had one or two from ten generations back, they sure ain't Spanish now.

Then don't call them Hispanic. Call them what they are. American Indians. And don't insult their language because it's a white peoples' language.

Unless it's not about whiteness...it' ...[text shortened]... w, because you're focused on the English vs Spanish language rivalry and not the race of the people.

Carlos Mencia clip

tinyurl.com/46mxe2z7

@AThousandYoung said

Then don't call them Hispanic. Call them what they are. American Indians. And don't insult their language because it's a white peoples' language.

It's strange how many presumably educated white people don't know the difference between "Hispanic" and "Latino".

@Arkturos said
It's strange how many presumably educated white people (or Pink Tiger Team players from China) don't know the difference between "Hispanic" and "Latino".

Latino also refers to white people. It includes Portuguese, French, Romanian and Italian. It means 'Latin'.

Latin America and Hispanic America are called that because that's who conquered it.

@AThousandYoung said
Latino also refers to white people. It includes Portuguese, French, Romanian and Italian. It means 'Latin'.

Latin America and Hispanic America are called that because that's who conquered it.

I have never -- despite being part Canadian-French -- been referred to as "Latino" (as far as I know).

@Arkturos said
I have never -- despite being part Canadian-French -- been referred to as "Latino" (as far as I know).

Then you haven't been speaking to many Spanish or Portuguese speakers. In French it's just "Latin" or "Latine".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

[The term 'Latin America as a] whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that a part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a "Latin race", and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe", ultimately overlapping the Latin Church, in a struggle with "Teutonic Europe" and "Anglo-Saxon America" with its Anglo-Saxonism, as well as "Slavic Europe" with its Pan-Slavism...

... It gained further prominence during the 1860s under the rule of Napoleon III, whose government sought to justify France's intervention in the Second Mexican Empire.

While some people in the Anglo world like to disparage the Quebecois' French roots and pretend it doesn't matter the people of Quebec seem to feel differently. Apparently they can be politically obnoxious by requiring special treatment for the French culture in Canada.

@AThousandYoung said
[quote]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

[The term 'Latin America as a] whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that a part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a "Latin race", and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe", ultimately overlapping the Latin Chu ...[text shortened]... y they can be politically obnoxious by requiring special treatment for the French culture in Canada.

A playlist by an Anglo-Canadian JJ McCullough about the role of French language and culture in Canada:

tinyurl.com/3mm9prdj