Posted on 03/07/2006 5:58:23 AM PST by HostileTerritory
Yeah exactly my thoughts as well – Really surprised by this waste of data and money -
"I have met mullatos from the Dominican Republic with red hair and blue eyes who, nevertheless, have kinky hair and sallow skin from their African ancestors."
I'm sure you know this, but for the benefit of other FReepers, "mulato ruso" literally means "Russian mulatto," since the stereotypical Russian (in Cuban eyes, at least) has curly red hair and green eyes.
I will . I work in Union City . Cubans dont usually call themselves white. The make a difference between non Hispanics (white people ) and themselves. They also dont associate themselves with other hispanics generally. They do however call me white and NOT themselves.
My old man worked 40 years in Colgates as well. I had a studio on Exchange place. I agree there are tons of immigrants here . But there are one hell of a lot of rich white people still here as well. Look at Hoboken . I'd have to save 3 life times to rent a 3 room flat there .
These are registered members of the Church. Roughly in 2000, there are 45+ million white Catholics, and about 5+/- million who are Asian or Black. This leaves about 15- million who are Hispanic, out of a population of 35 million. Roughly 20+ million Catholics attend Mass on a given Sunday.
There are certainly additional nominal Catholics who are not at all active and are not formal members of the Church. I would say these number roughly 5+ million Hispanics and 10+ million Whites.
Both of you make interesting points, and you both can name districts, cities, boroughs etc. right down to percentages....but from an outsiders prospective this isn't a melting pot.....this is about as segregated as can be in the areas that these metropolises occupy. Frankly, we're more diverse and integrated in the rural districts than this supposed "big melting pot".....
Don't forget Monsey.
or North Miami Beach or The Hammocks area of West Kendall
In Miami and in suburbia, it is a different story. Even the Union City Cubans, when pressed, will call themselves "white Hispanic." In South Florida, the white Cubans even segregate themselves from the black and mulatto Cubans (who live in Alapattah, rather than Little Havana and the 'burbs).
All of my Cuban friends and colleagues have always considered themselves to be "white Hispanic", particularly as most of them have traveled in Latin America and Spain, and are upper middle to upper class.
Won't it be nice when we are all brown?
Thank you Andy Rooney for the above.
In Miami and in suburbia, it is a different story. Even the Union City Cubans, when pressed, will call themselves "white Hispanic." In South Florida, the white Cubans even segregate themselves from the black and mulatto Cubans (who live in Alapattah, rather than Little Havana and the 'burbs).
All of my Cuban friends and colleagues have always considered themselves to be "white Hispanic", particularly as most of them have traveled in Latin America and Spain, and are upper middle to upper class.
BTW: I didn't think that there were any Cubans left in Union City. I thought that they had all decamped to suburbia.
When will they start teaching Ivornics at NY schools?
"Mulato Ruso" is a term I am quite familiar with. Of course, my favorite term remains "chongo", a Cuban Americanism that is used to describe lower class, darker Latinos who listen to hip hop and act ghetto.
What you say is very true. Thomas Sowell talked about how the Brits consciously promoted this idea of "the mystique of the all powerful white man" in the Carribbean and Africa. Old habits die hard.
I have never heard of "chongo"; perhaps it was adopted by Cubans in Miami, not Havana (my mother lived only briefly in Miami). But it sounds like the Panamanian term "chombo," which is a derogatory term for black (I don't think it's quite as bad as the N-word, but I never heard a white Panamanian use it in front of a black person who might understand Spanish).
NO!
Somes of us like real diversity as God made us humans, and don't wish to become a mish-mash tan everyman.
Ah! Chongo = Whigger in working class white parlance.
lol, same in Los angeles...
If you were attempting to subjugate 1/3 of the known world, wouldn't you promote a myth that you are the all-powerful and unstoppable MAN? If you can actually convince people of that, its relatively straightforward to keep 1 billion people in line with 100,000 Britons.
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