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Originally Posted by epchick
How can you tell the difference between a Puerto Rican vs a Mexican vs any other "Latino?" Just because someone might live in an area with a large Latino population doesn't give you "Latinodar" were you just walk up to someone and know their ethnicity. If some people can't even distinguish between Black vs Hispanic, or White vs Hispanic, what makes you think they can distinguish between the different Latino ethnicities. I sure can't.
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I haven't been reading the posts and following the discussion but just want to say:
I agree with the bolded, but it isn't necessarily the same thing as what he's talking about. Hispanics from various countries always think that I'm Hispanic to which I respond with "I'm not, but you think I am because Black and Hispanic are not mutually exclusive." People would have to observe cultural and ethnic identifying markers to attempt to distinguish between Black American and Black Hispanic.
A component of race and ethnicity (which includes whether someone is Puerto Rican, Mexican, Brazilian, etc.) is identifiability. Identifiability means there are physical and cultural features that we attribute to particular races and ethnicities. That doesn't mean that people can identify members of racial and ethnicities with 100% accuracy. It means that people can identify members of different ethnicities (nationalities and cultures) sometimes or more often than not particularly in racially heterogenous areas with less racial segregation (almost everywhere in the world is racially and ethnically segregated, it's just a matter of
less segregation). For instance, if you live in an area with a visible Mexican population, you will likely notice when someone doesn't "seem" Mexican. Whether or not they are Mexican can be determined through basic social interaction.
/back to not knowing what the hell you all are talking about
