OKay, you can't have it both ways. In one post you argue they are a "race" - "Clever, but when Clemenza starts rambling on about "Asiatic and Latin Hordes" he's not talking about language, he's talking about race." and then "You can't because the whole concept is purely racial."
So, what is "Latin". Is it a culture or a race? What is hispanic? Culture or a race?
Because arguing for “La Raza” sounds so kitchy and fits on a bumper sticker when arguing for some romanticized fiction of a thing called Mexico, which never existed until nearly 190 years ago.
Even then, those people of Spanish heritage subjugated the native peoples they found, slaughtered them, enslaved them or put them in indentured servitude.
I am always amused when I hear “The White Man”.
“Which white man? The ones with blues and blonde hair of Gaelic and Celtic heritage or the ones with Brown eyes, Black hair of Spanish and Moorish/Andulsian(Arab) heritage?”
Do you prefer to pick on people who look like me or should one be honest about who settled these great lands once adiministered by “The White Folk”?
I usually get called four letter names and I ask them to give it a thought some time or talk among your people as you all come to some alternative world where the Spaniards never existed.
98% of Mexican Americans have never been to Spain to trace their history an lineage so I imagine they have no real idea what Spaniards look like but, need “Blue Eyed, White Devils” to demonize...
I guess...