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To: Uncle Chip

No idea. Especially since, as I just explained, the word Hispanic has no meaning whatsoever in terms of race. It’s laughable. You should hear black ”Hispanics” commenting about black Americans as ”los negros” and ”monkeys” as if they themselves are not black.


82 posted on 03/23/2013 10:12:30 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Based upon the following definition of Hispanic from Wikipedia would it be fair to say that Luis Santiago, the boys father, is Hispanic:

Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico; Portuguese: hispânico, hispano, Catalan: hispà, hispànic)[1][2] is an ethnonym that denotes a relationship to Spain or, in some definitions, to ancient Hispania, which comprised the Iberian Peninsula including the modern states of Andorra, Portugal, and Spain and the British Crown Dependency of Gibraltar.

Today, organizations in the United States use the term to refer to persons with a historical and cultural relationship either with Spain and Portugal or only with Spain, regardless of race.[3][4] However, in the eyes of the US Census Bureau, Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, or any country of origin.[5][6]

The term is more broadly used to refer to the culture, peoples, or nations with a historical link to Spain, especially those countries which were once colonized by Spain, particularly the countries of Latin America which were colonized by Spain.

The Hispanic culture is a set of customs, traditions, beliefs and art forms (music, literature, dress, architecture, cuisine or others) which are generally shared by peoples in Hispanic regions, but which can vary considerably from one country or territory to another. The Spanish and Portuguese cultures are the main cultural element shared by Hispanic peoples.[3][4]


83 posted on 03/23/2013 10:34:34 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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