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And read the Breitbart comment sections, you'll see plenty of nasty comments about Latinos.
Now I'm not saying that Latinos are extremely oppressed in 2018, but a lot of whites do hold anti-Latino sentiment.
As for your friend, that sucks. I'm surprised because there are enough Latinos in every Bronx neighborhood (including Riverdale and Country Club) for them to not be token level.
There is a difference between discrimination, and having disagreement with the handling of illegal immigration.
And read the Breitbart comment sections, you'll see plenty of nasty comments about Latinos.
Now I'm not saying that Latinos are extremely oppressed in 2018, but a lot of whites do hold anti-Latino sentiment.
As for your friend, that sucks. I'm surprised because there are enough Latinos in every Bronx neighborhood (including Riverdale and Country Club) for them to not be token level.
No thanks to Brietbart!
Yes it seems incredible that that would happen in NYC in the present day.
Haha it was a rhetorical command, I wouldn't want you to read such vile, nasty comments. It shows that many white conservatives hold negative opinions about not just illegal immigration, but Latinos in general.
And yeah it's crazy to think this kind of thing still happens.
There is definitely discrimination against mestizo/indigenous Hispanic people in my opinion.
Probably less so for pure European ones, but they make up a small percentage of the Hispanic population in the US.
Please tell us how we are discriminated against? We we're allowed to come to this country, provide a better life than what was available to us in our native countries, yet we are discriminated against here, but not there.
There is discrimination against black people in the U.S. (whether they be of African-American, African, Carribean, or Hispanic ancestry).
There may be discrimination against people with indigenous ancestry (i.e., some Mexicans, Central Americans, etc.).
But is there discrimination against Hispanic people without any black or indigenous ancestry/of European ancestry?
Sure there is. If there wasn't they would just be called "white" and not "white" Hispanics. Either they're white or they aren't right? The fact that they're put into a separate "white" category should say enough. In a way you can blame the one drop rule. Hispanics come in all colors, so that somehow dilutes the "whiteness" of those that are mainly or completely of European stock.
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There is definitely discrimination against mestizo/indigenous Hispanic people in my opinion.
Probably less so for pure European ones, but they make up a small percentage of the Hispanic population in the US.
To a white non-Hispanic person, even a white Hispanic isn't on their level. That's why when Spaniards come over here they don't necessarily boast about their "Europeaness" since they're smart enough to realize that here in the States they can and often times are lumped in with Latinos. They can yell about how they are not Puerto Rican or Dominican or Hispanic all they want. That flies in Europe, but not everywhere here. lol Let them go to some backward place here in the States. The minute they open their mouth with an accent or speak in Spanish, that's it. There are still some whites (and others) that don't believe that there are Hispanics that are essentially "white". Somehow that just can't be. I was speaking with this guy who is Canadian who was shocked when he found out that Christina Aguliera is from Argentina. He just assumed she was white and found it hard to believe that Hispanics could look like that due to his interactions with Hispanics here in NYC who are generally pretty mixed.
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I have a friend (Dominican) who moved into a largely white neighborhood in the Bronx and took her kids to be enrolled in the school, and they didn't believe she lived there. They insisted on a home visit and then still delayed enrolling her kids.
What neighborhood was this and what school? I can only think of a few neighborhoods where such a thing could happen. Despite all of the tolerance that one would think of in the Bronx, neighborhoods overall are generally segregated. They're either black and brown or white, though this has been changing.
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What neighborhood was this and what school? I can only think of a few neighborhoods where such a thing could happen. Despite all of the tolerance that one would think of in the Bronx, neighborhoods overall are generally segregated. They're either black and brown or white, though this has been changing.
That's more true of The Bronx than Brooklyn or Queens, but then again The Bronx doesn't even have that many straight up white neighborhoods.
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