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To: SeekAndFind

Hispanic is a nationality, not a race. Too bad people don’t understand that.


12 posted on 05/07/2013 7:20:44 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: NRA1995

Well, seeing that Cruz father is from CUBA on the island of HISPANIOLA, who is more ‘hispanic’ monsieur Richardson?......


13 posted on 05/07/2013 7:25:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: NRA1995

I like how some mexicans play both sides of that street.


15 posted on 05/07/2013 7:38:31 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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I never quite understood that one either. So it looks like language is the definer of race now? I (apparently incorrectly) thought hispanics originated in Spain. (which last time I looked was in europe) Maybe it’s the mayan/aztec angle. Hell who knows anymore. Kind of like when you fill out your census form you put “American” in the race box.


17 posted on 05/07/2013 7:43:39 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: NRA1995
"Hispanic is a nationality, not a race. Too bad people don’t understand that."

The muzzies have convinced the UN to define the Jihadis as a race. Why not "hispanics" too?

21 posted on 05/07/2013 8:19:18 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: NRA1995

Actually Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race or nationality


28 posted on 05/07/2013 9:03:19 AM PDT by Cosmo105
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To: NRA1995

“Hispanic is a nationality, not a race. “

What nation would that be?

Hispanic means Spanish-heritage region of origin - i.e. Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or even Spain. But this includes those who self-identify as being of Mexican (etc.) descent even if they were born in the USA.

So you are right that Hispanic is not a racial identity, but it does not really describe a national identity either.

Since my learning to speak Spanish fluently would not make me Hispanic, I have to conclude being Hispanic is generally-speaking an ethnic/cultural type of identification.

But I also contend that Black is not a race either. Humanity is one race. It is very similar to the categorization of Hispanic as being an ethnic/cultural type of identification. The one difference is that Hispanic is usually associated with Spanish-speaking cultures.


32 posted on 05/07/2013 9:28:04 AM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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