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You seem insecure about your identity as being part Hispanic and feel the need to defend it. You have trouble assimilating in both america and with your Hispanic heritage. Most people tend to defend the country of their ancestors instead of a made up genre.
There's nothing wrong about defending your ethnicity, if I insulted Italian people I'm sure I would get flack for it.
And what the hell do you mean trouble assimilating? First of all I'm barely Latino (1/4), and most people in real life refer to me as white so I consider myself to be white. Second, nothing about my behavior indicates lack of assimilation to the country I was born in.
Well that number is arbitrary of course, but it was just an example. There's a big difference between 1% and 20% though, the latter is very much a significant chunk of a neighborhood.
I saw that "whatever, gotta represent the Latinos" dig before you deleted it. The real reason I do that is because some posters, like maybe you, seem to think that Latinos are beneath them, and I want to point out that plenty of good neighborhoods have a significant Latino population.
fyi, the reason why I deleted that comment is because I gave it a second thought and you actually get overly defensive about other things too. Like transplants, New York, the word suburban, etc. I didn't really want to get into it. But since you wanted to bring it up.
Also Latinos are a large group that span multiple racial features, just like how a Japanese person can look distinct from someone of Indonesian descent. Of that 10% I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of them just look white.
This.
Lots of Latinos that I've met here in NYC, I assumed they were Italian when I first met them, or some other white ethnic group..
I found Windsor Terrace to be quite expensive for what you get. You have to love living in Brooklyn and near prospect park to deal with the inconveniences of finding better public schools, living in smaller space, and commuting to anywhere outside of Brooklyn and Downtown Manhattan. I would northwestern queens and Harlem to be better deals. I personally wouldn't want to overpay for the sake of being able to say I live in Brooklyn.
fyi, the reason why I deleted that comment is because I gave it a second thought and you actually get overly defensive about other things too. Like transplants, New York, the word suburban, etc. I didn't really want to get into it. But since you wanted to bring it up.
Well that number is arbitrary of course, but it was just an example. There's a big difference between 1% and 20% though, the latter is very much a significant chunk of a neighborhood.
I saw that "whatever, gotta represent the Latinos" dig before you deleted it. The real reason I do that is because some posters, like maybe you, seem to think that Latinos are beneath them, and I want to point out that plenty of good neighborhoods have a significant Latino population.
Don't listen to the racists on the board.
Plenty of nice neighborhoods have Latinos living there for sure!
There's nothing wrong about defending your ethnicity, if I insulted Italian people I'm sure I would get flack for it.
And what the hell do you mean trouble assimilating? First of all I'm barely Latino (1/4), and most people in real life refer to me as white so I consider myself to be white. Second, nothing about my behavior indicates lack of assimilation to the country I was born in.
An Italian person defending Italy's heritage is one thing, an Italian person defending all Mediterranean people is another. It wouldn't be common for an East Asian person to identify themselves as someone from India, but per the census data they are all categories together as Asian. As I mentioned your position to defend all Hispanic as a category is a bit strange and it comes off as someone who is trying to validate who they are.
Race is a social construct so some people identifying you as white in modern times despite you not being considered white based on history, which was common for people of mediterranean background. Irish and Italians experienced a lot of racism before being accepted as white in modern times.
It is known as more of a Latino neighborhood, but still also a black one. The Southern portion of the neighborhood likely has more black people. I toured my coworker's block the other day, who lives near Bushwick Ave, and I saw many black people.
Only a small percentage of Latinos in NYC would be considered white, not counting the ones who have a white parent. Most are mestizo or mulatto.
Is that really true?
I think most of the Mexicans in NYC are mestizo, and most of the Dominicans are mulatto, or black-white biracial.
But many if not most of the Puerto Ricans in NYC (and also in PR of course) are racially white.
At least 50%.
An Italian person defending Italy's heritage is one thing, an Italian person defending all Mediterranean people is another. It wouldn't be common for an East Asian person to identify themselves as someone from India, but per the census data they are all categories together as Asian. As I mentioned your position to defend all Hispanic as a category is a bit strange and it comes off as someone who is trying to validate who they are.
People generally use the term "Latino" as a racial group the way they would "white" or "black". Even though Latinos can be of any race, Latino is treated as a racial group.
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I1995 associates Italians with the Klan.
No I do not. I said that the Klan accepts Italians these days, I did not imply that the Klan is filled with Italians.
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