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Originally Posted by LatinaAlumna
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.
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Why would it matter what culture someone was born into? It's not like you are responsible for it. It's not like you created the culture. You simply had the fortune or misfortune to be born into it. Why should anyone care about it? Something to be born into is beyond control. I have a trouble understanding why anyone would care about something that they did not accomplish or have any future control over. I guess my basic question is: Why shouldn't someone distance themselves from a culture?
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It's like saying, "I'm Latino, but don't group me in with all 'those people' because I am different."
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Anecdotally speaking, my workplace puts me in a position to speak with around a hundred of hispanics/latinos a day. I don't believe I have heard anyone even once refer to themselves as latinos. The most common reference even is "Spanish" in terms of their race/ethnicity and not Hispanic. So you got a long way to go before your word-holocaust happens.
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Overall, though, it's the bigness of the car that counts the most. Because when something bad happens in a really big car – accidentally speeding through the middle of a gang of unruly young people who have been taunting you in a drive-in restaurant, for instance – it happens very far away – way out at the end of your fenders. It's like a civil war in Africa; you know, it doesn't really concern you too much. - P.J. O'Rourke
Last edited by Elephant Walk; 04-30-2011 at 01:59 PM.
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