Posted on 03/18/2015 7:29:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Latino Americans or Hispanics occupy a stigmatized status in America alongside blacks. For some, that is cause for activism, social change, lobbying for legislative action, or preservation of their ethnic heritage. For others, it is a reason to deny their own heritage and abandon their genetic makeup. Sadly, the number of folks who choose the latter option seems to be growing.
According to a recent Pew Research study, more than one million Americans who previously identified as Hispanic and some other race on the 2000 US Census checked Hispanic and white on the 2010 census form. While the number of people who change their race on the federal form varies every decade, this is the first time these statistics have been analyzed on such a large scale.
The study went on to note that most people who identified as white, black or Asian on the 2000 census remained in the same category in 2010. So, it is truly confounding that so many Latino Americans changed their ethnic identity over the course of ten years. One writer noted that much the same trend occurred for Germans, Italians, and the Irish when they first immigrated here. He notes that the arc of change for many immigrant populations is relatively identical. New generations are predominantly English speaking, children attain more education than their parents, and wealth increases intergenerationally. On its face, this seems to be an ethnic Cinderella Story.
Sadly, its not. Since race in this country is typically dichotomous and conceived of in the form of a black-white binary, it can be said that what Hispanics and Latino Americans are doing on the aggregate is further distancing themselves from blacks to assimilate with the dominant white culture. While this isnt true for all Latino Americans, it is certainly true for some. Pew writer, DVera Cohn, alluded to this phenomenon saying that this could be happening because of certain benefits associated with being identified with some groups.
She said it the politically correct way. I will say it the blunt way. Many Hispanics see that they can get further in America if they simply say they are white, even if it isnt true. She also noted that the number of people changing their ethnic identity might be higher in the real population. In other words, some people of color are closeted, checking their ethnic identity on the box for the federal government yet presenting themselves as white in public spaces.
This is not just a bad thing. This is a terrible thing. It is the Melting Pot Theory aka Colorblindness aka Post-Racialism at work. These individuals, after being bludgeoned over the head repeatedly by white ideas about beauty, respectability politics in the workplace, and white-washing of media images marketed to children, have acquiesced to the omnipresence of white supremacy. There are certainly benefits to being or becoming a member of the majority. But, is it truly worth it if it means one has to abandon their own identity in the process? Certainly not.
Many have said that whites will one day become a minority in this country. With Latino Americans standing as the largest minority group, they were said to surpass whites in total population making the US a majority-minority country as early as 2043. How exactly will that happen if Latino Americans are becoming white? It simply wont.
You see, this is the danger of systemic, ingrained, institutional racism. It even has the power to change the ethnic identity of living breathing human beings. Sadly, this leads one to wonder if there is really any way to defeat white supremacy at all or if all of us activists are just chasing our tails. While I would love to say this is not a threat to our collective well-being, I cant. It is a threat, an imminent threat. And, it just makes our fight that much harder.
Yes indeed, it’s not working out as they intended.
Jenn seems to really hate Whitey.
Maybe it is simply a rising number of trans-racials, people that were born of one race but now identify themselves as members of another race. It is appalling that the rising numbers of trans-racials are being ignored and indeed oppressed by the liberals. The liberals just can’t stop their hatred of those who are different, can they?
Good luck with that abandoning your genetic makeup.
Now we have two types of trannies? Three if one includes serious discussions of transmissions over a few brewskis....
Michael Jackson was a trans-racial (and he looked it).
Out of all the experiences I have had with Hispanic and Latino people, same goes with Asian people, they never derided me or hated me because I am white, they have always treated me with respect, unlike some black people.
Laz, you are spot on.
I am half Hispanic and have always checked the “white “ box because it’s true. My children are 1/4 Hispanic and they check it as well. Sorry, libs, your dreams of a minority-majority nation will never come to pass.
The intermarriage rate of Hispanics with whites is 50% or higher. All of those children will self-identify as white and will look white. After reaching middle class they will think like whites and vote conservative as well.
The Dems know this. That’s why they can’t give up on having tens of millions more illegals entering the country, later to be legalized.
I was working in a government personnel agency,hired in 1971. All Mexicans as well as Americans of European descent were considered Caucasian,Blacks were Negro and most people from the orient were Asian. There was also a fourth category and I can't recall what it was named but it contained a variety of islanders,including Eskimos and American Indians,I think they may have been the Mongoloids.
Recently,a former coworker and good friend and I had lunch and laughed about how when we were hired we were both white and now we were from different races.
Okay... Establishing basis of “races”. This is taken from a question answer site....looks pretty much as I was taught in anthropology ..many moons ago....
Best Answer: In traditional anthropological studies there are actually 5 races.
These are
1) Mongoloid (Asian and American Indian)
2) Caucasoid (European)
3) Australoid (Australian and oceanic)
4) Negroid (east African black)
5) Capoid (south African black)
The remaining peoples are mixtures or “mongrels” of the different races above. This theory was originally proposed by Ashley Montague and has been disputed for years, but has still withstood the test of time to a large extent. The biggest problem with this theory is that all races share 99.99+% of the same genetic materials which means that further division of race is largely subjective, and that the original 5 races were also probably just subjective descriptions as well. The above theory has been used by people in the past to support racism as well as to refute it. All in all the preponderance of evidence suggests that race is for now a subjective term. Furthermore, until DNA technology becomes even better, then there can be no better answer than Dr. Montague’s, but that in time we will probably find more detailed versions. Apparently none of the other people answering this question have ever been to college much less have degrees in anthropology, biology and medicine!!!
Yes, but being a “native” or “mestizo” is considered “lower class” in Mexican society, thus it is preferable to label yourself as “white” whenever possible.
(Hey, I don’t make the rules or have any control over Mexican culture, so sue me. Not my fault. I’m just reporting the facts.)
The people getting off the boat from Africa tend to be the best and brightest. You can’t immigrate legally to the US without means of support or a student visa. In Africa, that basically means the elite, ie not a representative sample.
Its all about attude—Blacks from jamaica do not have the Chip on the sholder of American Blacks—they do not have the hate, anti-white Racism and the world owes me a living idea. Jamaica treated blacks horrible—the old south would have been a heaven to them. Don’t live in the past.
Mexicans don’t like central Americans—Northern Mexicans don’t like southern Mexicans. Mexicans who came in the 1930s do not like illegals who came yesterday. They don’t like Cubans or Columbians. It’s a complex world. radicalized “Chicanos” from the Mecha College groups are the angry Democratic votes.
The melting pot is working and the race hustlers are pissed. I fart in their general direction.
Maybe people should be branded at birth.
Assimilation, what a concept.
Indians have money now... so they’re probably becoming Republican :)
Yep- my sister works with nurses who came here legally from Nigeria, who jumped all the hoops and paid the expenses to get naturalized. She likes them, saying they are well educated and highly professional, are not politically correct, are religiously conservative, and as it happens they are just as irritated with illegals and liberal race-baiting as everyone else.
I’m pretty sure they’re not “fading”... :)
What she means is that they are starting to adhere to Western/Christian values because they, unlike other groups, see the value in adhering to that culture - prosperity!
Leftists are, at heart, anti-Christian Humanists,
and they hate the Western Culture that’s based on Christianity.
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