Er, seriously? For the record, I wasn't angry or anything like that--just posing the questions I thought you needed to answer before choosing a label.
I do find the idea that you're attached to 'latino' very frustrating, because it's a label that wouldn't work for anyone here. Historically, we're like the USA: countries that were conquered by europeans. The only difference (or the difference that was taught here in school) is 1)who are the europeans, and 2) since the conquest, there was more intermarriage (a cute way of saying more rapes, in general). Almost every other label used in USA but latino would work perfectly well for us, except that probably people would've to choose more options (though I'm not sure they would). And you would still get if people are privileged or not (at least in Argentina): white people privileged, people descendant of native people or of African origin not. (The binary is of course very restrictive--it's mainly a matter of degrees and different skin tones and features, but I don't think a poll would be able to be more subtle than that.)
(Also: Hispanic doesn't really apply to the same people than latino (not all latinoamerican people have hispanic origin). I'm not sure if latinoamerican people living in the USA feel identified with it, but I'm pretty sure no one out of the USA would.)
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Date: 15 May 2010 01:26 pm (UTC)I do find the idea that you're attached to 'latino' very frustrating, because it's a label that wouldn't work for anyone here. Historically, we're like the USA: countries that were conquered by europeans. The only difference (or the difference that was taught here in school) is 1)who are the europeans, and 2) since the conquest, there was more intermarriage (a cute way of saying more rapes, in general). Almost every other label used in USA but latino would work perfectly well for us, except that probably people would've to choose more options (though I'm not sure they would). And you would still get if people are privileged or not (at least in Argentina): white people privileged, people descendant of native people or of African origin not. (The binary is of course very restrictive--it's mainly a matter of degrees and different skin tones and features, but I don't think a poll would be able to be more subtle than that.)
(Also: Hispanic doesn't really apply to the same people than latino (not all latinoamerican people have hispanic origin). I'm not sure if latinoamerican people living in the USA feel identified with it, but I'm pretty sure no one out of the USA would.)