That’s all ridiculous. You guys (the US) need to get past this race shit. She’s a US citizen by birth and that’s that.
For some reason none of you want to be just “Americans”. You want to divide yourselves up into little tribes that link you back to some place you’ve never been.
If you yourself emigrated, sure…call yourself Italian-American. If it was your parents…you are American and your parents were Italian. If it was your grandparents, you’re just American. Stop pretending.
You want people that are systemically disadvantaged (e.g. over policed, redlined, underrepresented, etc.) to just get over it? All colorblindness does is let people ignore that. Please find a solution with a little more room for reality, history, empathy, and complexity. Thanks.
I don’t think I am really qualified to answer that adequately. The simple answer is people need to stop being racist and start being anti-racist, but that’s a multi-generational project to transform culture and not something that can really be imposed via political will alone. The obvious answer is replace the system, but again there’s the issue of this being the real world so the path to a new system is very messy and potentially involves another civil war given how re-entrenched the forces of racism have become. I’d like to think systemic reform is still possible but realistically Trumpism must be resolved first before reform could ever happen, and there’s a lot of serious issues arising from wealth concentration that potentially have to be dealt with too (i.e. even without Trumpism, we still have a bunch of ultrawealthy racists wielding their money to manipulate society).
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Yeah, we just have a ton of really similar words for not-quite the same thing.
Latin: with roots going back to Rome (Most Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian people). But almost nobody uses this in the USA.
Latin American/Latino/Latina: with roots in South/Central America, the Caribbean, or Mexico (notably, this includes Brazil and Haiti)
Hispanic: with roots in Spanish-speaking countries (notably, this excludes Brazil and Haiti, and includes Spain)
Ariana Grande could reasonably be called Latin, but not Latina. She just tans well so she plays the “racially ambiguous” card when it suits her.
Someone can be hispanic but can they be byespanic?
That’s all ridiculous. You guys (the US) need to get past this race shit. She’s a US citizen by birth and that’s that.
For some reason none of you want to be just “Americans”. You want to divide yourselves up into little tribes that link you back to some place you’ve never been.
If you yourself emigrated, sure…call yourself Italian-American. If it was your parents…you are American and your parents were Italian. If it was your grandparents, you’re just American. Stop pretending.
It would also help your politics no end.
You want people that are systemically disadvantaged (e.g. over policed, redlined, underrepresented, etc.) to just get over it? All colorblindness does is let people ignore that. Please find a solution with a little more room for reality, history, empathy, and complexity. Thanks.
Get past and get over seem like distinctly different things. Get past suggests moving through and beyond to me.
So how do you suggest people move through and beyond systemic racism?
I don’t think I am really qualified to answer that adequately. The simple answer is people need to stop being racist and start being anti-racist, but that’s a multi-generational project to transform culture and not something that can really be imposed via political will alone. The obvious answer is replace the system, but again there’s the issue of this being the real world so the path to a new system is very messy and potentially involves another civil war given how re-entrenched the forces of racism have become. I’d like to think systemic reform is still possible but realistically Trumpism must be resolved first before reform could ever happen, and there’s a lot of serious issues arising from wealth concentration that potentially have to be dealt with too (i.e. even without Trumpism, we still have a bunch of ultrawealthy racists wielding their money to manipulate society).
Solutions are often simpler when they are made the someone unaffected.
You’re being ridiculous. Humans will never stop dividing ourselves into tribes. And guess what? Prejudice doesn’t have to be a part of that division.
uhhh, race as we know it wasn’t really a thing until well after the romans, before then skin colour was about as interesting as hair and eye colour.
afaik people cared somewhat about ethnicity specifically, but racism as we know it wasn’t a thing at all.