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12-16-2014, 07:19 PM
Quote: (12-16-2014 04:30 PM)Teedub Wrote:
It's funny...I've been talking about this for ages, and Speakeasy too.
De La Hoya wouldn't look out of place in Paris, let alone southern Spain. His skin tone is naturally tanned, but he has completely Caucasian features. [b]Yet the idea that he'd be classed as 'white' anywhere, seems to most Americans to be completely insane. [/b]
It pretty much comes down to power in America. Remember that when the Italian, Irish, Polish and Eastern European immigrants came during the 1890s and early 1900s they weren't considered white either. They were seeing as these alien foreigners who brought with them a very "dangerous" and cult-like religion (Catholicism) therefore they aren't one of "us" sort of speak. That changed over time. The term "Hispanic" was first used in 1970 during the Nixon administration to try to put immigrants and their children coming from Latin America into one group. You can't put Mexicans with Caucasian features in the Caucasian category that would be absurd goes the racist thinking of the day. So the Hispanic community has lived with this term ever since and it has created a huge identity crisis because of it. Heck I even think the term "Mexican American" is weird, I don't say that shit whenever I travel abroad. I just say I'm from the U.S. If I go to Mexico saying that I'm Mexican American they will laugh at me. They'll just say "No, you're American, without the Mexican part."
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Example... I've been laughed at on US-centric boxing forums for suggesting that Sergio Martinez is white, despite (I believe) both his parents being born in Spain.
Yeah like I said above, it just comes down to power. The mindset behind it is European/American culture>Latin American culture. So therefore the thinking goes even if you look white you're still from a Latin American country therefore you're not part of the vastly superior white European and American culture. This is something Argentina as a country has to deal with because a lot of Argentinians feel way more connection to Europe based on their history than they do with Latin America and feel "stuck" in a continent where they don't look like the average Latino. Even the white people in countries like Mexico for instance have an inferiority complex towards Europe and America, especially rich white Mexicans who shun anything that is Mexican made and buy European and American goods instead. This whole thing is a mess in my opinion.
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I'm not a geneticist, but someone with De La Hoya's features...I'd estimate being at the very least 85% European. There's a video of Jessica Alba on George Lopez and his DNA test thing, and she's almost ashamed of being European descent. I mean, what does she think 'Spanish' is?
The Jessica Alba video is a great example of the identity crisis of the American Hispanic. The government has told us all our lives that we are not white but "Hispanic" so right there you are already excluding them from the white club and you're essentially saying that no people from Latin America or descendants of Latin America are white and because of this form of discrimination Hispanics have banded together sort of speak and embraced their "brownness" and feel a sense of brotherhood towards each other even though many of them can classify as white. That is what minority groups in the U.S. do to feel a sense of empowerment.
So when Alba goes on the Lopez show in front of a majority Latino audience and finds out the "shocking" truth that she's white, the sky falls down for her. The results essentially tell her that you're not "Hispanic" but you're white. Even Pau Gasol has bought into this B.S. The dude is from Spain and in interviews he has said he's Latino.
^^^ I look at that and just smh.
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Point is MidWest, if you look like De La Hoya, if you come to Europe, you can experience 'white privilege' haha.
The funny thing about this is that I too have felt like Alba like that before believe it or not. For instance I grew up in a predominantly Latino community in Chicago and never considered myself white. That never came across my mind at all until I went to college and started traveling abroad. In college I met people from all over the world and I remember some Chinese people refer to me as the "white guy" and a few Indians calling me the "white guy," It was a shocker for me. A few people have asked me if I was from Spain or Italy and questions of that nature. I've been to England, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba and the term Hispanic does not even exist to them so they would just refer to my nationality (American).
In Cuba I remember a lot of girls wanting to be with me because I was "white", again this was a complete shocker for me. I know a lot of the white posters in this forum say that white privilege is a myth. But I must admit though that having been grown up in America and being told since I was born that I was something else, then all of a sudden Cuban woman wanted to be with me because I was "white," I got to say, it felt really really good at that moment. That's white privilege for you.
That's my rant for the day haha.