"Hispanics" are not an ethnic group or race!

[TheForeigner]

By "Hispanics" I of course mean Latin Americans who are classified by the US census bureau as an ethnic group consisting of people of many races. But there is no such thing as an ethnic group comprising people from more than one race! Worst yet, American mass media, politicians and a lot of the average citizens think "Hispanics" or "Latinos" are a race! Sometimes smaller "Hispanic" groups like Mexicans, Cubans or Puertoricans are talked of as if they are races or ethnic groups. This is insane and has to stop! Latin American countries and the "Latino" diaspora in the USA are multiracial, just like the "non-Hispanic" population of the US. It's really like pretending all American ciitizens are an ethnic group, because they speak English, because speaking Spanish is all an Amerindian from Guatemala and a mulatto from Cuba have in common. People in these countries don't pretend they are all the same ethnicity or race, so why do Americans believe that? This is also important because "Latinos" also benefit from affirmative action in the US, which is even more insane! Please give your opinion and I will also make a poll.

[TheForeigner]

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[Jacques de Imbelloni]

[Tooting Carmen]

Indeed, it is a bullshit.

[Argentano]

By "Hispanics" I of course mean Latin Americans who are classified by the US census bureau as an ethnic group consisting of people of many races. But there is no such thing as an ethnic group comprising people from more than one race! Worst yet, American mass media, politicians and a lot of the average citizens think "Hispanics" or "Latinos" are a race! Sometimes smaller "Hispanic" groups like Mexicans, Cubans or Puertoricans are talked of as if they are races or ethnic groups. This is insane and has to stop! Latin American countries and the "Latino" diaspora in the USA are multiracial, just like the "non-Hispanic" population of the US. It's really like pretending all American ciitizens are an ethnic group, because they speak English, because speaking Spanish is all an Amerindian from Guatemala and a mulatto from Cuba have in common. People in these countries don't pretend they are all the same ethnicity or race, so why do Americans believe that? This is also important because "Latinos" also benefit from affirmative action in the US, which is even more insane! Please give your opinion and I will also make a poll.

I wonder how this individuals are all the same race.

[KMack]

I don't care what Hispanics are.

I can tell you it takes a student from my ethnic group to score 450 SAT points higher than a Black student, 270 points higher than a Hispanic student, and 140 points higher than a White student to be considered for admission at Ivy League universities

Ross how are you doing?

[tomásx]

Although you're right, I feel like when people say "latino/hispanic" the image they have is that of a person of mixed background (mestizo). That IS an ethnicity and it's the ethnic group the majority of people in Latinamerica belong to (in varying degrees). Just wanted to add that.

[KMack]

Well I'm not making up bullshit, its harder for Indians to be admitted Harvard or MIT than it is for White, and much harder than a Black or Latino.

The same applies to Asians but they can speak for themselves.

My Nephew just got engaged to a Bengali girl. Is that the same chit as India?

[Smitty]

They are their own race, as far as Americans are concerned. Why should we worry ourselves about the fact that Cubans have more SSA than Mexicans and Mexicans have more Amerindian than Chileans? They're all more or less a mix of white, black, and Indian, and lumping them together serves our purposes quite well.

[Profileid]

its irrelevant really.
most hispanics in the US aren't white anyway