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Quote Originally Posted by crod1980:
Over 95% of the U.S. population speaks English, but since the United States is the "Land of the Free" you are correct that there isn't an "Official" Language, but only 12 to 15% of the population of the United States speaks Spanish.
If in the United States you are considered "Hispanic" you are a minority in this country. I am not exactly sure what you keep making reference to the U.S. census for.
Hispanic is the more Politically correct term when referring to the ethnic origin of a generalized group of people that come from colonized Spanish countries. Those people in the United States are a minority.
If you are born in Spain you are considered Spanish or European. Pau Gasol is white because he is European.
Over 95% of the U.S. population speaks English, but since the United States is the "Land of the Free" you are correct that there isn't an "Official" Language, but only 12 to 15% of the population of the United States speaks Spanish.
If in the United States you are considered "Hispanic" you are a minority in this country. I am not exactly sure what you keep making reference to the U.S. census for.
Hispanic is the more Politically correct term when referring to the ethnic origin of a generalized group of people that come from colonized Spanish countries. Those people in the United States are a minority.
If you are born in Spain you are considered Spanish or European. Pau Gasol is white because he is European.
all hispanic means is someone is descendant from a spanish speaking country, whether that of the colonizers or that of the colonized. by your logic then, anyone who speaks french or german or portuguese in america is also a minority. hispanic has no bearing on race. therefore, if you are saying that anyone who speaks spanish is a minority, certainly anyone who speaks french or german in the US is, since there are less speakers of those languages here than spanish speakers.
i refer to the US census because it proves my point. look at it an you will see that spaniard and (insert colonized nation here) are in the same category. race doesn't matter to the census takers in that case, it's about how many people speak the language so adaptations can be made.
it is unfortunate people think that hispanic automatically = brown, because that is clearly not the case. cameron diaz is part cuban and she's whiter than pau gasol! according to the US census, pau gasol is no less hispanic than rosario dawson. you may not like the title, you may not see him as hispanic because you have your own assumption of what a hispanic should be (brown), but per the census, anyone descended of a country in which spanish is the language is hispanic. read the census if you think i'm wrong.
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