LuccaCardoso1 said:
I still don't exactly understand what "latino" should mean as a "race". Tecnically, latinos are people born in Latin America, but that's so damn broad! There are people born in Latin America from every ethnic group. |
Yep. That´s exactly what latino means. People born in Latin America, or also people born in latin countries (countries that have a romance language as their primarly language)
I do understand what you mean when you use the word "racist". Maybe "segregative" would be a better word to describe their approach toward "races".
I personaly don´t like to use the word "race" related to human beings, after all such thing does not exist. "Ethinicity" suits the matter much better. That said, I really think it´s kind of weird how the U.S. census identify people. Latino is by no any means an ethinicity, yet it´s considered as one there.
I also find kind of weird how many Americans tend to stick to their ethinicity group in most situations. When walking around any university campus, we see that people tend to stick to people of the same ethinicity, like, white with white, black with black, Asian with Asian etc. Sometimes you visit a church and there are churches almost exclusively frequented by black people, or latinos, or white people. I´ve seen many, many Brazilians who studied there to report situations like this.
Racism exist all over the world and in the U.S. it seems to be related only to ethnicity or "color".
In our country, discussing racism feels complex because it´s not just a matter of ethinicity, but also a matter of social conditions and sometimes even xenophobia. Overall our socitey do not really cares about ethinicity that much, so it´s tricky for us to understand the U.S. approach to that.
