Does it bother anyone else when the term "Hispanic" is thrown in with other races like black, white, asian, etc? Hispanic just means you come from a spanish speaking country. Ortiz Hayek Fujimori Three different races, each of these people is hispanic.
My Spanish prof in college used to complain about that. He'd say "I've never once heard of a country called Hispania."
Isn't America the only place where "hispanic/latino's" and whites have to put 2 different ethnicity? Everywhere else, they are both just "Caucasian."
I'm MEXICAN. I never call myself Hispanic. If he was such a good professor, he would have understood that "Hispanic" comes from the term meaning "Hispaniola", the group of islands in the Caribbean that comprise Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, that were first "discovered" by the Spaniards. It sounded like "España" at the time. Not to cause a controversy, but I joke around too that I've never heard of a country named "America", either... it's "The United States of America" and yet people born here call themselves "Americans", while people from Spanish-speaking countries call you all "Estadounidenses." There's nothing bad about what you prefer to call yourselves.
Indeed. I'm a non-hispanic white whenever I have to fill out something regarding ethnicity. Never understood that one.
yeah, but Mexican isn't a race. It's odd for me. When someone asks you what race you are, what do you say? If im Mexican and Argentinian, what am i suppose to say when people ask what race i am? On my Mexican side, i have a blonde hair, blue eyed grandfather and a very dark native looking grandmother. So am i supposed to say white and indian?
BTW, i've always answered either hispanic or latino. Knowing that's not a race, but understand **** is all confusing here in good ol Amurica.
Ya, but im tanned with dark hair and eyes. I understand if some of my white looking cousins with colored eyes and fair skin can say it. But, if i tell someone here in America that i'm Caucasian, they will laugh at me and or think i'm ashamed of my culture and a poser white boy. "I'm Caucasian." "But isn't your family from Mexico or something?"
