Why do people lump Hispanic Immigrants with Spanish Ancestry with Mexican Indians? (multiculturalism, suspect)
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The media has done a terrible job at explaining Hispanic (Latino) immigration. First they lump illegal and legal immigration together and confuse people with words like undocumented. Then they act like all Hispanics are exactly the same and assume that a Hispanic Immigrant from Buenos Aires who is half Spanish, and half Italian in his ancestry, is the same as a poor uneducated illegal alien who is one hundred percent Indian from Southern Mexico, who may not even speak Spanish.
This is the same as linking Tiger Woods with a dark skinned African Immigrant just off the plane from Nigeria.
Why is the media so ignorant about immigration and race?
What's wrong with lumping them all together?
Like this....if they came from the same general direction, usually south, then lump them together on a bus and dump them on the other side of the border where they can all get together and figure out how they'll get back home.
To steve.westberg: Just a little definition of culture from the resident anthropologist....since you seem to be struggling with the concept.
Culture
Culture is a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior. Culture is learned, aka enculturation. Culture is shared by members of a society. There is no such thing as a culture of one. Culture is patterned. People within a given culture live and think in ways which form definite patterns. Culture is mutually constructed by society through a constant process of social interaction. Culture is symbolic as is language. Culture is arbitrary--it isn't based on natural laws which are external to humans but created by humans according to the inclinations of society. Culture is internalized. It is habitual to those who perform it and the performance of culture is so natural that one is not even aware of performing it.
Perhaps now, you might be able to grasp the concept of American culture and understand the reasoning behind a society that doesn't wish to give it up, especially to unlawful invaders.
Culture
Culture: is a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior -- an abstract "mental blueprint" or "mental code."
Must be studied "indirectly" by studying behavior, customs, material culture (artifacts, tools, technology), language, etc.
1) Learned. Process of learning one's culture is called enculturation.
2) Shared by the members of a society. No "culture of one."
3) Patterned. People in a society live and think in ways that form definite patterns.
4) Mutually constructed through a constant process of social interaction.
5) Symbolic. Culture, language and thought are based on symbols and symbolic meanings.
6) Arbitrary. Not based on "natural laws" external to humans, but created by humans according to the "whims" of the society. Example: standards of beauty.
7) Internalized. Habitual. Taken-for-granted. Perceived as "natural."
Seems culture is just minor variations is what makes us all humans, American culture is a sub group of the larger New World and Old world /Westren Culture, which is a sub group of Humanity.
Whims of the society...doesnt seem to me to hold importantance in the scheme of things. We share far-far more in common than the slight variations that define us -or devide us. The same is true with the inhabitants of Westren Europe or the rest of the Americas. We are similar in Religious beliefs, if not the same;We have the similar mores in Family, marriage, child rearing, medicine, politics, work, and even the similar styles in art, music, sports,cinema, and comedy.
All that seperates us is slight variations. Whims.
Last edited by 1751texan; 04-08-2010 at 01:40 PM..
I wish americans would refuse to get roped into issues like the race, language and culture of these illegals.
These are all diversions inserted by mass media meant to sidetrack the issue.
The only issues for me are, cut off the welfare, shutdown that border and begin to prosecute employers of illegals.
As far as what language they speak, that's only a tool to identify that they are illegal, nothing more.
Then you drive them to the border and dump them over the wall and forget about what language they speak.
I wish americans would refuse to get roped into issues like the race, language and culture of these illegals.
These are all diversions inserted by mass media meant to sidetrack the issue.
The only issues for me are, cut off the welfare, shutdown that border and begin to prosecute employers of illegals.
As far as what language they speak, that's only a tool to identify that they are illegal, nothing more.
Then you drive them to the border and dump them over the wall and forget about what language they speak.
It is really annoying all of the tactics used by pro-illegal aliens advocates. Race, heritage, the misinterpreted 14th Amendment. It wastes time. I agree, cut off the incentives, prosecute employers and change the Constitution. As they self deport, deport those we catch.
I wish americans would refuse to get roped into issues like the race, language and culture of these illegals.
These are all diversions inserted by mass media meant to sidetrack the issue.
The only issues for me are, cut off the welfare, shutdown that border and begin to prosecute employers of illegals.
As far as what language they speak, that's only a tool to identify that they are illegal, nothing more.
Then you drive them to the border and dump them over the wall and forget about what language they speak.
Do you know what title of the thread is?
you want to talk about deportation on this thread?
Culture: is a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior -- an abstract "mental blueprint" or "mental code."
Must be studied "indirectly" by studying behavior, customs, material culture (artifacts, tools, technology), language, etc.
1) Learned. Process of learning one's culture is called enculturation.
2) Shared by the members of a society. No "culture of one."
3) Patterned. People in a society live and think in ways that form definite patterns.
4) Mutually constructed through a constant process of social interaction.
5) Symbolic. Culture, language and thought are based on symbols and symbolic meanings.
6) Arbitrary. Not based on "natural laws" external to humans, but created by humans according to the "whims" of the society. Example: standards of beauty.
7) Internalized. Habitual. Taken-for-granted. Perceived as "natural."
Seems culture is just minor variations is what makes us all humans, American culture is a sub group of the larger New World and Old world /Westren Culture, which is a sub group of Humanity.
Whims of the society...doesnt seem to me to hold importantance in the scheme of things. We share far-far more in common than the slight variations that define us -or devide us. The same is true with the inhabitants of Westren Europe or the rest of the Americas. We are similar in Religious beliefs, if not the same;We have the similar mores in Family, marriage, child rearing, medicine, politics, work, and even the similar styles in art, music, sports,cinema, and comedy.
All that seperates us is slight variations. Whims.
Are you kidding me?
You re-posted the basic Intro to Cultural Anthropology definition (basically what I posted) yet with all of the numerous and complex variations which make up the concept of culture, you focus in on "whim?" (Which does not mean variance btw).
Whim:
(n.) A sudden or capricious idea; a fancy.
(n.) Arbitrary thought or impulse: governed by whim.
(n.) A vertical horse-powered drum used as a hoist in a mine.
Dictionary.com · The American Heritage Dictionary ·
Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society" (Tylor 1874).
BTW, that's a pretty strong assumption to blatantly put forth your idea that all Western Europeans and inhabitants of the Americas share the same culture. You're wrong of course, but congrats for having the cajones to make such a statement with no convincing argument to back it up whatsoever.
You re-posted the basic Intro to Cultural Anthropology definition (basically what I posted) yet with all of the numerous and complex variations which make up the concept of culture, you focus in on "whim?" (Which does not mean variance btw).
Whim:
(n.) A sudden or capricious idea; a fancy.
(n.) Arbitrary thought or impulse: governed by whim.
(n.) A vertical horse-powered drum used as a hoist in a mine.
Dictionary.com · The American Heritage Dictionary ·
Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society" (Tylor 1874).
BTW, that's a pretty strong assumption to blatantly put forth your idea that all Western Europeans and inhabitants of the Americas share the same culture. You're wrong of course, but congrats for having the cajones to make such a statement with no convincing argument to back it up whatsoever.
Liberals engage in semantics because they have no argument to make.
The media has done a terrible job at explaining Hispanic (Latino) immigration. First they lump illegal and legal immigration together and confuse people with words like undocumented. Then they act like all Hispanics are exactly the same and assume that a Hispanic Immigrant from Buenos Aires who is half Spanish, and half Italian in his ancestry, is the same as a poor uneducated illegal alien who is one hundred percent Indian from Southern Mexico, who may not even speak Spanish.
This is the same as linking Tiger Woods with a dark skinned African Immigrant just off the plane from Nigeria.
Why is the media so ignorant about immigration and race?
Why does it bother you so much? It comes across as you not wanting to be associated with Mexican Indians because you view yourself as superior.
Why does it bother you so much? It comes across as you not wanting to be associated with Mexican Indians because you view yourself as superior.
Funny, I didn't see anything in that posters remarks that indicated a superiority complex or that he didn't want to be associated with Mexican Indians. It matters not what the ethnic or racial makeup is of any illegal aliens they have no right to be here and this forum is about illegal immigration, not race or nationality.
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