The complicated measure of being Hispanic in America

[Ladylethal 12]

At least people don't ask you how come they never hear people speaking brazilian ...

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

even the broad term is wrong.. we should be called romantics.. we don't speak latin, we speak a romance language..

So do the French. Maybe we should just call you guys undertheborders? That's all you've got in common anyway, you're all from under the border. Not even Spanish is common since the goddamn Brazilians had to be all special and speak freakin' Portugese.

gotta have some way of separating the best from the rest

I will second that one Charlie ol boy! All the Brasilians I have met are some of the kindest people ever.

[isleta521 5]

Dont forget about us Chicanos

Actually, on my mothers side who has blood lines that came from Spain and settled in NM before the pilgrims landed and they intermingled with the Native Indians - Great grandmother was half Navajo. And on my Dads side has mucho familia that settled here in NM, Wyoming and Colorado from Mexico and have been here for 4 generations and have even fought in the Civil war. My daughters consider themselves Chicanas and I really cannot consider myself Mexican although I do Identify more with them since its in the blood and we grew up with other Mexicans and Mexican Americans.

[pedroh 21]

don't forget the other latinos.. educated immigrants who aren't considered latinos by his own people, and americans are 'oh you're mexican?, you don't look mexican!' (as if that were a bad thing or something)..

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

even the broad term is wrong.. we should be called romantics.. we don't speak latin, we speak a romance language..

Latin is THE language Romance languages are based on. (Romance = Rome, not Romance = love).

The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, comprising all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. They have more than 700 million native speakers worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and Africa, as well as in many smaller regions scattered through the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

[Ban Hammer 13,673]

don't forget the other latinos.. educated immigrants who aren't considered latinos by his own people, and americans are 'oh you're mexican?, you don't look mexican!' (as if that were a bad thing or something)..

if it makes you feel any better, when i lived in corpus christi people thought i was mexican because i got a great tan

[kisschick1976 0]

don't forget the other latinos.. educated immigrants who aren't considered latinos by his own people, and americans are 'oh you're mexican?, you don't look mexican!' (as if that were a bad thing or something)..

if it makes you feel any better, when i lived in corpus christi people thought i was mexican because i got a great tan

I HATE that! I'm Spanish but I'm still referred to as Mexican no matter how many times I've repeated myself. . When I worked at Auto Zone it was the worst! "WHAT KIND OF MEXICAN ARE YOU IF YOU DON'T SPEAK SPANISH?!?!" I'M NOT MEXICAN, A**HOLE! There were those that still argued like I didn't know any better where my family came from. That changed for the better each time I moved out of Corpus!

People in Corpus don't know geography very well do they?

[Ladylethal 12]

When I was an exchange student in AZ, I also got the "You're mexican but you sure don't look mexican" from some people, and then I'd explain I'm not mexican, that I am brazilian, and they'd go "but you look latin/hispanic, how come you're not from mexico?".

[pedroh 21]

When I was an exchange student in AZ, I also got the "You're mexican but you sure don't look mexican" from some people, and then I'd explain I'm not mexican, that I am brazilian, and they'd go "but you look latin/hispanic, how come you're not from mexico?".

cuz for a lot of Americans, Mexico is a biiig country, from Mexico all the way to the Patagonia

[isleta521 5]

When I was an exchange student in AZ, I also got the "You're mexican but you sure don't look mexican" from some people, and then I'd explain I'm not mexican, that I am brazilian, and they'd go "but you look latin/hispanic, how come you're not from mexico?".

cuz for a lot of Americans, Mexico is a biiig country, from Mexico all the way to the Patagonia

I always thought that everything south of the RG was Mexico.

j/k

[pedroh 21]

lol.. btw.. now that all the brazilians are here, have to say, Marta from the girls soccer team.. WTFPWNED the USA, she just DESTROYED the defense by herself..

Edited September 29, 2007 by pedroh

[Ladylethal 12]

Like they would say in my country "Que golaço!!!"

It's funny 'cus US is so used to winning they were surprised they lost that game.

[Ban Hammer 13,673]

lol.. btw.. now that all the brazilians are here, have to say, Marta from the girls soccer team.. WTFPWNED the USA, she just DESTROYED the defense by herself..

soccer is a religion in brazil.

[isleta521 5]

lol.. btw.. now that all the brazilians are here, have to say, Marta from the girls soccer team.. WTFPWNED the USA, she just DESTROYED the defense by herself..

soccer is a religion in brazil.

Futebol,

amen

[Nessa 23]

what is really weird for me is that I'm not hispanic (if you look at the definition of the word hispanic, it's about people with Spanish descendant), it is not my case, I'm german decendant, I was born in Brazil and i speak portuguese, there is nothing spanish about me at all. So in Brazil when I have to fill out some application or whatever and they ask for race, I put caucasian (white) cuz that's what I am, it's either that or black, or mulato, and here they have a special race called hispanic and people think that every american country below USA is hispanic. Wake up America, go back to school and learn the difference.

that's too hard for them... they can't conceive black hispanics.. they think 'wait, he's black, not hispanic'.. dahh.. but oh well..

lol.. I remember when I was on the shack, this cell phone rep was talkin about a new ad targeted to hispanics.. and she got all PC and was talking about this ad, then she said something and 'to the hispanic speaking customers'.. I was like #######? I didn't know there was a hispanic language.. that's new to me... I don't speak hispanic

that was funny.