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[Crayon]

Only when I wear a Chivas hat.

 

[Soodanim]

I've never understood the elitist attachment people have to their culture, heritage, or ethnicity. It asserts people aren't individuals, but slaves to a group of people they've mostly never met. You owe nothing to anyone except your family and even then that has its limits. If you've lived your whole life and got by not speaking the language of a country you're not from, then you didn't need it. You could make the choice to learn it, but that's down to you as an individual. It's also on your parents who saw fit to not teach a second language, whatever their reasoning for it.

I veered more towards OP's example, but the same concepts apply to concepts like "Blackness". An individual owes nothing to millions of people he's never met, and if anything saying that a skin colour comes with certain responsibilities, traits, or otherwise sends an opposite message to the goal of proving to racists that they're no different to anyone else.

Just be you, whatever that is. You're always going to be a product of you environment (for better or worse), but it doesn't define you as an individual.

 

[Ionian]

I've never understood the elitist attachment people have to their culture, heritage, or ethnicity. It asserts people aren't individuals, but slaves to a group of people they've mostly never met. You owe nothing to anyone except your family and even then that has its limits. If you've lived your whole life and got by not speaking the language of a country you're not from, then you didn't need it. You could make the choice to learn it, but that's down to you as an individual. It's also on your parents who saw fit to not teach a second language, whatever their reasoning for it.

I veered more towards OP's example, but the same concepts apply to concepts like "Blackness". An individual owes nothing to millions of people he's never met, and if anything saying that a skin colour comes with certain responsibilities, traits, or otherwise sends an opposite message to the goal of proving to racists that they're no different to anyone else.

Just be you, whatever that is. You're always going to be a product of you environment (for better or worse), but it doesn't define you as an individual.

Countries have been conquered, what's not to get? Adapt sure. To the conquers.

I know your point isn't at me. So no bad blood there. It's historically correct.

I agree with family though. Yet it is built in when. Always family and friends first.

They're the ones you can trust.

When you lose them, a piece of your heart goes with them. Through falling out or death.

 

[Azurro]

Not out of Breaking Bad, but overall illegal activities, yes absolutely.

You don't want those types of gangs around.

 

[Romulus]

I just know that when I lived in a border town in Texas, the rich Mexican "nationals" think they're better than our US born Hispanics. It's hilarious watching how cocky they are for no reason. Demanding asf in public to servers and just straight up snobby. They expect us to speak spanish too, even though we're in the US. Granted most have money, but in the US were everywhere is fairly comfortable(compared to Mexico) we're just not impressed. I've heard in Mexico the rich are essentially demigods there and it's just this culture shock when they come here and people don't worship them.

So yeah, seeing Hispanics fight over shit when they grew up ten miles away is pretty funny, but everyone does it. Whites/Blacks have been fighting for decades over petty shit when they lived next to each other, know the same people. Where I grew up the guys would go look for dudes from the border town to start shit with them. Lmao. Literally the same type of people but that border line makes all the difference somehow.

 

[VN1X]

Err the correct term is Latinx thankyouverymuch. Mmm-hm!

 

[*Nightwing]

Err the correct term is Latinx thankyouverymuch. Mmm-hm!

 

[6502]

I would agree that the term “Latino” is dumb and really shouldn’t be used as it doesn’t account for, say, indigenous people in Latin America who don’t speak Spanish. Generally speaking, though, it’s a term to to broadly coat a people born in a specific region influenced by a particular culture (ie. Spain and Portugal). Besides, from my experience most Spanish speakers who are recent immigrants don’t talk about being “Latino” at all and just refer to their mother country instead (“I’m Mexican/Puerto Rican/Peruvian”).

To your second point, I think people get hung over with the language because even though we aren’t from Spain our culture is heavily influenced by it. Mexico, for example, is quite literally a blend of both Spanish and indigenous customs; many of us are also racially mixed between the two (as we have the historical term “Mestizo” to indicate Spanish and indigenous mixing). Unlike the US, miscegenation was widely more practiced in Latin America, and since Spain has been heavily influential in the Americas it’s only natural that we adopted their language.

Which brings me to your last point. When I was a child, I remember being teased a lot by my family for getting words wrong or not knowing how to speak fluent Spanish. I didn’t feel bad or angry about it but it was something that made me realize that I was different from them. To them, I was the Americanized boy who, like others on this forum, liked video games, American movies and music, and had friends from all over the world who all spoke English. When I got older, before I graduated college, I worked with my father at a large grocery that employed undocumented immigrants mainly from Mexico. The same thing happened there. I was teased a lot for being “too American” and for my inadequate Spanish (I could speak it but I wasn’t confident with it as I had to at times insert English for words I couldn’t convey). Through time, however, as the years went on the more I worked closely with these guys the more I started to notice my Spanish improving and I started to speak like them; I started using heavy Mexican street slang and I got so good and natural at it that eventually the teasing stopped and they accepted me as “one of them”. And this has translated to my family. Improving my Spanish made me feel closer to my families culture. When you learn to speak a language you also in a way learn how to think like them. So while it sucks that there are situations where, for instance, American born Latinos are criticized for not speaking Spanish, it does beg to observe that language matters, and speaking a language helps in not only communication, but building relationships, camaraderie, community, and a sense of belonging. Per your example, how could a person ever build a relationship with their grandparents if they can’t even communicate with them verbally? I personally feel that learning a language is the ultimate sign of respect and best way to preserve a culture.

Well, that's a pretty fantastic reply. Thanks for the insight.

 

[daveonezero]

I may be mistaken but most crime is in same ethnicity.

And I think the problem is that Latinos are not one thing just like Americans are not one thing.

 

[jason10mm]

Wow, you guys ARE a contentious and quarrelsom lot!

Good thing a latina can communicate without language

Imma gonna be in my bunk...sorry, my litera

 

[Ionian]

Wow, you guys ARE a contentious and quarrelsom lot!

Good thing a latina can communicate without language

Imma gonna be in my bunk...sorry, my litera

She didn't lie with the hips.

 

[dr_octagon]

Wow, you guys ARE a contentious and quarrelsom lot!

Good thing a latina can communicate without language

Imma gonna be in my bunk...sorry, my litera

You forgot the infamous gif.
Don't click the spoiler.

Spoiler: Don't click

 

[GymWolf]

I watched some latino hot teachers being uhm..."mean" with students on the internet but it's probably not what you were asking...

 

[dr_octagon]

Err the correct term is Latinx thankyouverymuch. Mmm-hm!

Ackshually, the original term is Latinxus Leviosa.

Source: I have a PhD in Latin.

 

[Ionian]

I watched some latino hot teachers being uhm..."mean" with students on the internet but it's probably not what you were asking...

I think I know what you mean. That sure was a thing. Not to be seen. Worst crowd funder ever.

Some sicko funded Brazilian porn. Of a very special type. I mean special as in your IP could ban you. All adults. All legal.

The acts though, there is a history behind it. It's not good. It's crowd- funded scat. Vomit-inducing but a part of the website history. Again don't look unless, well, just don't look. Your IP might ban you.


I only mention as was part of the history of the website. Somebody started a crowdfunding scat video. then the user eventually got it and posted it. Was very not nice to say the least.

He spent ages promising it. It's SA lore. Again don't look, it's as bad as it sounds. Think he got banned after numerous posters donated.

Sick mofo's. I thought it was a joke. (young me). Nope, very real.