Posted on 09/26/2017 9:12:54 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
Race in Latin America is confusing to many Americans, who generally can’t see beyond black and white. Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores and their families from Europe have always formed a kind of local aristocracy. Their descendants were called criollos, and were considered somewhat lower in status than Iberians or other Europeans born abroad. The descendants of single European men who married native indio women formed the core of “the people,” who were subservient.
The possible combinations of different grades of European, Amerindian, and African led to a dizzying proliferation of types, all of which were named and classified according to a racial casta system. A mestizo is the historical name for a half criollo/half indio, a zambo for a half black/half indio. But these are only the better-known terms. Dozens of words for the possible combinations have existed, each with its own role, status, and class associations. There were even pictorial guides.
http://takimag.com/article/looking_southward_costin_alamariu/print#ixzz4tnmBfs3y
Democrats love slums because they can buy votes there in exchange for welfare goodies. Establishment Republicans love slums because they think of slum people as a pool of cheap labor (at least Hispanic slums). Both the elite "left" and "right" see the American Middle class as their enemies, as something to be overcome politically and displaced/replaced demographically.
and they're succeeding...
my optimistic liberal but pragmatic dtr in Portland Oregone has had her eyes opened...
someone stole a wooden plantar from the front of her small lawn...not a fancy thing...a cheap wine barrel type planter...
it goes to show that when you have people with no morals and no values and do not fear the law anything of yours is up to be stolen..
the thieves are so petty that they would take the smallest of your treasures....
Yes, I have always been curious since I have had arguments with the wife when I used the term “wetback”. She says it is racist, but I argued Mexican are a nationality, not a race. But perhaps we are both wrong.
Politically my understanding is the revolutions in South America were lead by the elites and they left the average person out of it. Very unlike the US revolution. States like Mexico seem to have weak federal governments, as we saw when Santa Anna ignored their pleas and attacked the Alamo.
You are correct. The Brazilian state was historically very racist. To this day they have schemes where they force natives off their farms near the forests to hand over that land to those connected to the government. While North American treatment of its natives is not stellar, we are damn saints compared to what the Spanish did.
Mexico is one of the most racist countries on the planet. Whites control 99% of the wealth.
I think anyone in the West, not just America, would find what we know of South America very limited. The child I give money to through Compassion is in Bolivia. I know so little about Bolivia except that it is very poor.
I have a German Mexican friend. Meaning his race is German but he grew up in Mexico. In Mexico, and I am sure it is the same in Brazil, the German community stays together in its own small area. Texas was the same I believe where it had a small European community that stuck to its own and its own business.
One curious thing he told me is how everyone has a dog - for security. In Mexico City, you are nuts to not have a dog to protect your property.
But what percentage of the population are “white”? I didn’t think pure whites still existed?
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