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To: Constitutional Patriot

its so covenient for mexicans to pick and choose which race they belong to. Aren’t they half white, europeans. So they stole land that they occupy in mexico right now


29 posted on 05/08/2010 6:58:11 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: 4rcane

...and they speak the language of their ‘oppressors’. If white people are so horrid, why aren’t the Chicanos speaking Aztec, Toltec or Mayan?


167 posted on 05/10/2010 8:19:43 AM PDT by Cheesel (So this how democracy dies...with thunderous applause, March 21, 2010)
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To: 4rcane
its so covenient for mexicans to pick and choose which race they belong to. Aren’t they half white, europeans. So they stole land that they occupy in mexico right now

YEP! From Wiki, "The United Mexican States commonly known as Mexico" has a majority ethnic population of Mestizos (60 - 80%).

Meztizo

Mestizo is a colonial Spanish and Portuguese (Mestiço) term that was used in the Spanish Empire and Portuguese Empire in Latin America to refer to people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry.

The term was created specifically for those people of the particular racial mixture of Amerindian and European who comprise much of the population of Latin America. The term is also used in other parts of the world, although with different meanings.

Mestizos do not appear in large numbers in official censuses until the second half of the seventeenth century, when a sizable and stable community of mixed-race people with no claims to being either Indian or Spanish appeared, although, of course, a large population of biological Mestizos had already existed for over a century in Mexico.

Mestizos form the majority of the population in most of Latin America; however, it would be difficult to know with any reasonable "biological" precision how extensive the mestizo population is, except through genetic studies. Various censuses since colonial times have tracked the race of inhabitants of the Spanish American countries, but these statistics are only generally indicative of what could be considered biological race, since they really captured the "social" race of a person. A person's legal racial classification in colonial Spanish America was closely tied to social status, wealth, culture and language use. Wealthy people paid to change or obscure their actual ancestry. Many indigenous people left their traditional villages and sought to be counted as mestizos to avoid tribute payments to the Spanish[10]. Many indigenous people, and sometimes those with partial African descent, were classified as mestizo if they spoke Spanish and lived as mestizos.

173 posted on 05/10/2010 8:58:48 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve - STUPAK)
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