Stop using the term "Latino/a" when you mean "

[AmericanInMexico]

The only true Latinos are Italians. Anyone of mixed Spanish/American Indian descent is properly referred to as a mestizo/a.

Whites from Latin America are more Latino than any mestizo.

[well-informed]

It's 2011 not 1427..... Americans don't refer hispanics as mestizos in conversation.

So sorry professor that makes me latino as well as many others here. We can't change norms just because you don't like it

[AmericanInMexico]

It's 2011 not 1427..... Americans don't refer hispanics as mestizos in conversation.

So sorry professor that makes me latino as well as many others here. We can't change norms just because you don't like it

Norms can't change biology.

[zboy1]

The only true Latinos are Italians. Anyone of mixed Spanish/American Indian descent is properly referred to as a mestizo/a.

Whites from Latin America are more Latino than any mestizo.

I think many people--especially American's--confuse the term Latinos and Latin. Latin refers to countries in Italy, Spain, and the Mediterranean countries. Latinos is a term for Hispanic people used in NYC and other parts of the country. And yes, many Whites in South America are of European ancestry. But there are many that are mixed with Indian or Mestizo blood as well.

[AmericanInMexico]

The only true Latinos are Italians. Anyone of mixed Spanish/American Indian descent is properly referred to as a mestizo/a.

Whites from Latin America are more Latino than any mestizo.

I think many people--especially American's--confuse the term Latinos and Latin. Latin refers to countries in Italy, Spain, and the Mediterranean countries. Latinos is a term for Hispanic people used in NYC and other parts of the country. And yes, many Whites in South America are of European ancestry. But there are many that are mixed with Indian or Mestizo blood as well.

And those mixed ones are not Latinos but mestizos.

[well-informed]

Well true norms can't change biology. But this is my experience

Every application i've filled in the hispanic/latino box
No man or woman has called me mestizo in my life
Not one guy in the club has said " wow look at that mestiza over there"

So why should i call myself mestizo just because you want to change the term of latino/a.

When i think of mestizo, idk but it seems a little insulting to me. Like a short brown indigenous man living in Bolivia or something

Bottom line is i'm latino and i'm proud to be. There ain't no one that can tell me any different

[AmericanInMexico]

Well true norms can't change biology. But this is my experience

Every application i've filled in the hispanic/latino box
No man or woman has called me mestizo in my life
Not one guy in the club has said " wow look at that mestiza over there"

So why should i call myself mestizo just because you want to change the term of latino/a.

When i think of mestizo, idk but it seems a little insulting to me. Like a short brown indigenous man living in Bolivia or something

Bottom line is i'm latino and i'm proud to be. There ain't no one that can tell me any different

I can tell you differently. And it's both very sad that you are ashamed of identifying as what race you truly are, as well as insulting to the real Latinos who are the Italians.

Indigenous people aren't mestizos. To be a mestizo, you have to be both white and indigenous.

Verdict: you are not a Latino.

[ErikHeaven]

And you wonder why i thought you were a supremacist? Why are you so stuck on these racial issues? You bring conflict here. I wish you would go away. Stuck in the f***ing matrix already.

[ErikHeaven]

Stormfront.org please go back to your kind already. Most of us here do not think in these limiting terms. We are all humans and Americans.

[MrPeabody]

The term "latino" has nothing to do with Italians, and the term does not refer to a race.

The demonyms Latino and Latina (feminine), are defined in English language dictionaries as:
• "a person of Latin-American or Spanish-speaking descent."[1]
• "A Latin American."[2]
• "A person of Hispanic, especially Latin-American, descent, often one living in the United States."[2]
• "a native or inhabitant of Latin America"[3]
• "a person of Latin-American origin living in the United States"[3]
• "someone who lives in the US and who comes from or whose family comes from Latin America"[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino

First we get the women haters, and then the angry feminists, and now the white racists. This forum attracts negativity like fly paper attracts flies.

[well-informed]

Hahaha apparently we have a man with a white sheet and a white hood redefining the concept of what's what and who's who because he's simply white.

Well let be the first to tell you go f**k yourself. I'm not telling you what my race is since i'm not italian but i can tell you i can kick your ass every single day of the week, twice on sunday. We keep our women in check and we continue to flood baseball players into the major leagues. So go ahead make your stupid close-minded assumptions.

It's funny how you make a post subtly defending white women, yet you wouldn't be involved with one hmmm. Uuh guys we shouldn't really hate white women even though most of them are bitches in this country and i wouldn't date them myself. You hypocrite. There goes the stupid line of whiteness you speak of if you have a child with a mexican woman amigo.

I have no racial problems with anyone in my life. You want to feel better about yourself, go ahead. I could give a flying f**k who you are or your skin color. Go say that stupid shit in front a hispanic man in person. I guarantee you most of them, will let you know how much of a dick you sound. by the way i'm latino hahaha

[AmericanInMexico]

Hahaha apparently we have a man with a white sheet and a white hood redefining the concept of what's what and who's who because he's simply white.

Well let be the first to tell you go f**k yourself. I'm not telling you what my race is since i'm not italian but i can tell you i can kick your ass every single day of the week, twice on sunday. We keep our women in check and we continue to flood baseball players into the major leagues. So go ahead make your stupid close-minded assumptions.

It's funny how you make a post subtly defending white women, yet you wouldn't be involved with one hmmm. Uuh guys we shouldn't really hate white women even though most of them are bitches in this country and i wouldn't date them myself. You hypocrite. There goes the stupid line of whiteness you speak of if you have a child with a mexican woman amigo.

I have no racial problems with anyone in my life. You want to feel better about yourself, go ahead. I could give a flying f**k who you are or your skin color. Go say that stupid shit in front a hispanic man in person. I guarantee you most of them, will let you know how much of a dick you sound. by the way i'm latino hahaha

Actually, I do date white women, white Mexican women that is. They may be Mexican, but they're still white, of unmixed Spanish descent.

So I am involved with plenty of white women, as long as they aren't white American women.

As for the "white hood and white sheet" comment, that was totally out of line. I suppose if you love your race (which you don't have one, seeing as you're mixed-race and therefore a person without a people), then you assume it means I automatically "hate". No. I don't hate you by any means. I love people of all races. So quit with the KKK-insults.

As for kicking my ass every single day of the week, that sounds like supremacist speech to me. You belong in prison charged with a hate crime.

And to finally put an end to this discussion, you're not Latino. Get over it. You are a mestizo and your Indian genes prevent you from being a Latino.

[Contrarian Expatriate]

And to finally put an end to this discussion, you're not Latino. Get over it. You are a mestizo and your Indian genes prevent you from being a Latino.

You are operating under a very common misperception. The term "Latino" is a cultural/linguistic designation, not a racial one. Regardless of one's racial background, they can be 100% Latino based on language and culture or both.

Hispanic was the term back in the 80's, but that left out Brazilians and Portuguese who are not Hispanic, but they are Latino.

[AmericanInMexico]

And to finally put an end to this discussion, you're not Latino. Get over it. You are a mestizo and your Indian genes prevent you from being a Latino.

You are operating under a very common misperception. The term "Latino" is a cultural/linguistic designation, not a racial one. Regardless of one's racial background, they can be 100% Latino based on language and culture or both.

Hispanic was the term back in the 80's, but that left out Brazilians and Portuguese who are not Hispanic, but they are Latino.

I suppose by that logic, black people in the United States are now "Anglos" just because they speak English.

[ErikHeaven]

Please flush the toilet already.