Poll: Do You Agree Antonio Banderas Is "Too Hispanic" (Non-White) To Live In An Exclusive Address?

[Anglojew]

Off-white Spanish Actor Antonio Banderas was rejected from purchasing an apartment in the exclusive New York Apartment building, The Dakota, -which has long been famous for its celebrity residents, including Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall and John Lennon- for being "too hispanic."

Do you agree with the Dakota’s board?

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/0...of_racists.php

[alfieb]

obviously not.

Primus, he's not Hispanic, he's Spanish. It's Anti-Beridism at its worst.

Secondus, why should race have anything to do with it?

Tertius, a Spaniard is far less ethnic than a Jew.

[Anglojew]

obviously not.

Primus, he's not Hispanic, he's Spanish. It's Anti-Beridism at its worst.

Secondus, why should race have anything to do with it?

Tertius, a Spaniard is far less ethnic than a Jew.

1.

Origin

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/de...english/ethnic

late Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos 'heathen', from ethnos 'nation'. Current senses date from the 19th century.

2. The board doesn't agree. Most Ashkenazi American Jews look less ethnic than him. For instance a typical upper-class New York Jew is Ivanka Trump's husband Jared Kushner:



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

3. He does look Berid although possibly part-Gypsy/Moor?

[alfieb]

which has long been famous for its celebrity residents, including Leonard Bernstein

Ethnic, compared to a European.

[Anglojew]

Ethnic, compared to a European.

Whiter than Banderas.

[Hadouken]

isnt he fully spanish ?

[alfieb]

I disagree, but you're entitled to your opinion.

There are simply too many people in this country who are ignorant and cannot tell the difference between Spanish people, who are native Europeans from Spain, which is a country in Europe, and Hispanic people, who are from the New World, most of which are racially mixed.

"I'm Spanish." "Me too, where are you from? Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico...?"

[Anglojew]

isnt he fully spanish ?

Hard to tell.

[Hadouken]

Hard to tell.

I mean as far as I know he is ethnic spaniard and not like ...mestizo mexican or something like that

but not sure thats why I ask

[Also]

I don't agree.