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Personally, I think people of German-Speaking origin deserve a national musuem. Why are they being ignored?
They have one already. Oops - you assumed wrong.
German-American Heritage Museum is the only national museum to celebrate, display, and commend the achievements of immigrants who came from German-speaking countries and achieved the American dream...represents the 400-year presence of German-speakers, who came to America, starting in the 1600s.
If people of Spanish-Speaking origin think that their 40 year history as a ethnic minority group merits a national museum, they should fund it themselves, and not try to force it politically through legislation.
If I invent that all Eastern Europeans are a minority group tomorrow and call them "slavics", should they get the same funding?
Forty years history?
You really, really don't know your American history do you? But then, maybe they should have a museum in Washington "celebrating" the undereducated. I am always shocked how many in Florida really have no idea where Montana is, which to me should be as basic knowledge as 2+2=4.
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Put walls around it and call it mexico. Go home scum bags.
Some people love wearing their xenophobia on their sleeves. Or perhaps their hoods?
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They just made that up though. They came up with large statistical numbers only because "hispanic" is a meaningless designation. The 18% figure is literally all people who are related to a person that once spoke Spanish. Most of them are simply white! - not real minorities.
I guess being from a Nordic extraction is just make up, right?
They are only interested in this because the African American museum recently opened. This happens every time there is a documentary/film/memorial about black people - "Latinos" complain "why are always talking about the blacks", and protest to pencil themselves into the story. And as usual, they bolster statistics to imply that they are more relevant than other minority groups and should get the same funding and attention.
Now they want to politically force the creation of a Museum:
If such a museum were created, it would doubtless be filled with ridiculous revisionism that re-writes american history pretending that Spanish people were minorities.
I don't see anything wrong with it. There are plenty of ethnic museums around the US.
The thing I have a problem with are revisionist history museums like the Smithsonian American History Museum. Their displays and presentation of history is a distorted, liberal, politically correct revision of US history. It is really an embarrassment for anyone who knows anything about US history. Based on the information there, one would think that the Tuskegee Airmen and the Japanese Nissei unit single handedly won WW2, and that all of WW1 was an event no more important than the discovery of peanut butter. It is an abortion of actual US history.
Not an issue in and of itself but wonder how that would work. “Latinos” being a newer ethnic category made up of diverse people. Wonder how the various perspectives and experiences would be balanced.
For example, the average Argentinian in 1945 vs. the average Dominican. Guess you tell it all.
El Museo del Barrio NYC just one of many was founded 50 years ago
That’s in NYC...so is it more Puerto Rican and Dominican geared though? I looked it up and my girl on the front page has an beautiful Afro. I love it but just wondering how that might go down with the Mexicans...lolol.
J/k...sort of.
Again, just wondering how the balance would be struck among the various Latino groups as far as emphasis in this museum...
They just made that up though. They came up with large statistical numbers only because "hispanic" is a meaningless designation. The 18% figure is literally all people who are related to a person that once spoke Spanish. Most of them are simply white! - not real minorities.
Latinos however, are from this geographic area and they are a mix of white and Amerindian and called Mestizos. So no, they aren't simply white.
Latinos however, are from this geographic area and they are a mix of white and Amerindian and called Mestizos. So no, they aren't simply white.
Oldglory, you are old enough to remember when Mexicans were white. No notion of a "hispanic/latino" minority group existed in the 50s/60s when you were a young man.
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