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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
Let me get this straight...
Not caring about something that you were born with (thus, you have no control over it), makes you a sell out?
I just don't get it. Do you also deeply care about other stuff you don't control that affect you like the weather?
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You don't have this straight and you do not understand.
In my experience and part of the country, when a person chooses to call himself/herself Hispanic, that person is
taking care to signal to others that while he/she may have been born into a culture, he/she is
CHOOSING to distance him or herself from it. That is different than simply "not caring" what you are born into.
It's like saying, "I'm Latino, but don't group me in with all
'those people' because I am different."
There might be another word in another region of the country that fits here, but in my case, it's "Hispanic."