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I have a really hard time trying to sort through the victim olympics of this statement to determine who wins the gold here. White is a slippery definition thoug
by hotpotamus 4y ago
I have a really hard time trying to sort through the victim olympics of this statement to determine who wins the gold here. White is a slippery definition though - on that much I suppose I can agree. Ricky Ricardo would never have been allowed to be shown married to a white woman on TV back when his show was airing if Cubans weren't considered white too. Jews sort of come and go from being white as well, but I don't know the factors that determine that.
- goatlover 4y agoApparently there is ongoing debate within the US census as to whether Hispanic should be treated as an ethnic category. Some Hispanics have objected to being placed in the white racial category as opposed to just being called Hispanic. I'm thinking at some point in the future we'll realize that racial categories don't make much sense.
- rayiner 4y ago“Hispanic” isn’t an ethnic category. There are Hispanics of mostly European descent, Hispanics of mainly African descent, etc. It’s a clumsy umbrella term, but is vaguely workable insofar as it gestures in the general direction of a set of nationalities with related cultures. “Asian” is even worse since it refers to a group of people who share neither ethnicity nor culture. It’s a label that is workable only because these unrelated groups share some common experiences in America due to immigration patterns. Even there, though, Indian immigrants and Vietnamese refugees have little in common.