Institutional racism is a set of values and beliefs that lead one to be successful in America (and really, anywhere else). Apparently, only whites have these values and black people are incapable of having them. And, to make matters more insidious, white people only adopted these values in order to keep blacks from being successful.
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The communist movement in Italy, that led to the Red Brigades, felt the same way about the working class.
Many BR “heroes” made some serious cash smuggling heroin.
I recently went out on a date with a lovely Chilean gal who does, in fact, refer to herself as Latinx. First and only self-identified Latinx I’ve met.
There won’t be a second date. I can’t do woke.
My upper middle class white sister in law uses the term frequently. She’s an ally, you see.
Culture, but from where? Hispania?
I dunno, man, I think he’d just be surprised after listening to these lovely family talk spanish and would ask them where they learned to speak spanish so good (despite the lisp). Even the little girls!! They must be in some really good private school!
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That quote is gold. Pure gold bars. If you struggle to explain it then either a) you don’t understand it well enough or b) your interpretation of the phenomenon is a bloody figment of your imagination and maybe the people who look at you crazy are correct.
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There are some in Argentina, but they use the term Latine.
But if the society gave you a podium place in the victimhood Olympics wouldn’t you take it no questions asked?
Some years ago I attended a party at a summer villa of a rich South American company owner marking an end of a major project . (I’m a nobody and there were over three hundred attendees, including all foreign brancos, hence me being there)
The villa had swimming pools. Pools as in plural, and a stable of thoroughbred horses with a full time veterinary staff. The owner and his extended family moved around with that super rich characteristic that freaks middle class people out - treating their staff with nonchalance and not acknowledging their presence, even in very private matters like making out with a mistress or taking a crap.
Anyway, I’ve recently stumbled around a semi-viral multi tweet written by one of the offspring of the said super rich guy, about the horrors of being a Latina (or x?) in the irredeemably racist US of A and fighting an uphill battle against sexism, economic and political discrimination.
Reading it one gets an impression it was written by a single mother that escaped the slums of Central America and not a spoiled rich kid I’ve seen kick a domestic servant in the shin for having brought her the wrong soda.
Oh, and she’s an self identified Afro-latina now, with dreads. Back then the family proudly advertised their pure Conquistador blood without any mixing with the Natives, and now white women with colored hair are apologizing her on Twitter for the sins of the whites against her people.
But hey, it will bring Instagram followers and the feisty fake Latina (sorry, Latinx) schtick works, as Alex Baldwin’s WASPy wife can attest.
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He was saying there are really only 4 races and Asian is a “race”. He illustrated this by saying that technically he’s a “White/Asian mix”, which would probably make you the same. While I think it’s possible to accept this conceptually and perhaps use the word “ethnicity” instead, even then it’s not really practical for use IRL IMHO.
Look at how much stuff others in this thread are posting about “Hispanics” and all, which I admittedly have limited knowledge about so I’ve not commented although it’s pretty eye opening for me.
No one living in Asia considers themselves “Asian” although most of us do recognize that it can be used as a term for us based on geographical region for simplicity’s sake.
For lots of Filipinos, they’re mixed with “Caucasian” blood so it further confounds the issue. However, it’s similar for lots of Indonesians when it comes to bloodlines but they don’t share the same opinions as Filipinos.
You guys see what I’m saying about “practicality” IRL?
The “race” on my ID doesn’t state “Chinese” for no reason even though I don’t live in, nor am I a citizen of China. This kind of classification of “races” is needed even in Asia even on a governmental level for the purpose of more effective governance.
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