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I've been told I look, talk, and act white.
I've also had people on the Miami CD subforum "whitesplain" to me that I am not Latino but instead, Hispanic and that "no one says Latino outside of hollywood".
I actually think the white/Latino integration of the Northeast (at least New York and New Jersey) is understated.
Of course the Bronx and Brooklyn Ricans and Dominicans are generally as culturally nonwhite as it gets. However PRs and probably DRs also serve as a buffer group between whites and blacks in some cases (neighborhoods like Ridgewood, Queens for instance), and it's quite common for people to be mixed with Puerto Rican and some sort of white.
Then there are a lot of South Americans in NYC and its suburbs, they even go to college at a similar rate as white kids. And in my experience, unless they're from the hood then they're pretty similar to white people.
Most of my white friends date Latina chicks, especially hipsters.
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DMV area has a very diverse Latino population. I'd say up to 50% of at least the young Salvadorians here have assimilated. Salvadorians have been here for decades already in large number, there are constantly new traditional ones moving in every year, but there's a local population now that has assimilated. I've worked with or known growing up Salvadorian and some Bolivians who grew up in the area, they are either Cowboys or Redskins fans, and say "young" and "jih like" how the locals do. In Northwest DC and Moco you find most of the Dominicans that exist here, small in # compared to the NE, but there are many who have assimilated, and some who are still "fresh off the boat". A Dominican girl I worked with has had two different African American husbands, and she largely grew up in the US. Her and her now half Dominican teenage daughter are completely assimilated.
An ex of mine is full blood Puerto Rican, and grew up almost exclusively in the MD suburbs of DC, she is DMV to the core, fully assimilated.
There are Colombians here too, shoutout my Parceros, but mostly they are a cross between somewhat assimilated like DR/PR, and still holding on to their South American heritage strongly. Some Cubans and Panamanians in the area have assimilated too. I've come to notice I meet a lot of 50/50 at least ladies here, half Cubano, half AA.
With that said, still probably 65 percent of the total Hispanic/Latino population overall is more traditional with a heavy influx of Central Americans from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico.
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Also the Tidewater, VA area (757) has a surprising number of either assimilated Latinos or Black/Latino mixed. It's a heavy Naval Base area, with decent diverse mix of cultures for a smaller metro area.
DMV area has a very diverse Latino population. I'd say up to 50% of at least the young Salvadorians here have assimilated. Salvadorians have been here for decades already in large number, there are constantly new traditional ones moving in every year, but there's a local population now that has assimilated. I've worked with or known growing up Salvadorian and some Bolivians who grew up in the area, they are either Cowboys or Redskins fans, and say "young" and "jih like" how the locals do. In Northwest DC and Moco you find most of the Dominicans that exist here, small in # compared to the NE, but there are many who have assimilated, and some who are still "fresh off the boat". A Dominican girl I worked with has had two different African American husbands, and she largely grew up in the US. Her and her now half Dominican teenage daughter are completely assimilated.
An ex of mine is full blood Puerto Rican, and grew up almost exclusively in the MD suburbs of DC, she is DMV to the core, fully assimilated.
There are Colombians here too, shoutout my Parceros, but mostly they are a cross between somewhat assimilated like DR/PR, and still holding on to their South American heritage strongly. Some Cubans and Panamanians in the area have assimilated too. I've come to notice I meet a lot of 50/50 at least ladies here, half Cubano, half AA.
With that said, still probably 65 percent of the total Hispanic/Latino population overall is more traditional with a heavy influx of Central Americans from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico.
Do you mean assimilate to the black population?
That's the jist I get from your response, though I do know a Bolivian from NoVa and her and her peers seem to be more white assimilated.
Long Island, NY has a lot of towns mixed between black and mostly US born Central American, and I would say most are black influenced but not all. The average one I've met I would say is somewhat black influenced and says the N word but not to the extent of Nuyoricans.
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Do you mean assimilate to the black population?
That's the jist I get from your response, though I do know a Bolivian from NoVa and her and her peers seem to be more white assimilated.
Long Island, NY has a lot of towns mixed between black and mostly US born Central American, and I would say most are black influenced but not all. The average one I've met I would say is somewhat black influenced and says the N word but not to the extent of Nuyoricans.
Good question, as I believe it's a mixed bag for many. It may actually depend on specifically where those Hispanics live at while here. I think some posters here were automatically assuming that Hispanic/Latinos were assimilating with local Black culture, but I would say it's not that simple. In parts of the suburbs of the DC area it could go either way. I've grown up and/or been around many Latinos who either have or partially have assimilated to Black American/ local culture. Again in totality I would say in totality it's still more than half of the Latinos here that are more or less still traditional.
Good question, as I believe it's a mixed bag for many. It may actually depend on specifically where those Hispanics live at while here. I think some posters here were automatically assuming that Hispanic/Latinos were assimilating with local Black culture, but I would say it's not that simple. In parts of the suburbs of the DC area it could go either way. I've grown up and/or been around many Latinos who either have or partially have assimilated to Black American/ local culture. Again in totality I would say in totality it's still more than half of the Latinos here that are more or less still traditional.
Good points.
While there are Latinos who fully assimilate to either black or white American culture, there are also plenty who take bits and pieces of both.
Like I know these Mexican-American girls who listen to a lot of rock and pop but one of them pronounces "aunt" the black way and the other uses black twitterisms often.
I do think that the distinctly Latino American culture that you would see in 80s, 90s, early 00s shows and movies (and current ones, in an anachronistic manner) is dead, though. Seems like the social media era basically wiped that out.
"Ahnt"
Here in NY, white people tend to say "ant" and black people tend to say "ahnt"
In my experience that is a very consistent thing
or Auntee
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