Kushton Slater
New Member
The way I look at it is, Michael Jordans gf is a white latina and Zoe is a black latina. I hate when people say there half latino, half irish, that makes no sense. You either are or you're not. If one of your parents is american and the other is dominican, you're American and Dominican (not half American half Dominican, because how in the hell can u be half of a nationality). And you're latino, not half latino half anglo. Latino to me anyway is a bs ethnic group. Every country has there on distinct culture and every country has there own ethnic labels. But the term latino groups people from different countries and different ethnicities (and like I stated before every country has there own distinct culture and ethnic labels) and makes them this big bs thing because they may or may not speak the same language and have kinda the same colonial past. Call a Mexican, Dominican, see what happens. Call a Panamanian, Nicaraguan, see what happens.You know what's so funny? I usually hear this when people, for example, lets say Michael Jordans girlfriend, she is Latina and others will say, no, she's White and then I also hear it when someone like Zoe Saldana calls herself a Latina and people have to say, she's Black, and Latino/a isn't a race.
Then you have people in the middle who aren't Black or White. I don't see anything wrong with calling them Latino/a.
If thats the case then shouldnt all of us 2nd+ generation Americans be called Anglos. Say a whole bunch of Americans, Australians, English, Kiwis, etc of different races and ethnicities, migrated in huge numbers to Russia and Russians decided to label us all Anglos (even though we all come from distinct cultures and different races/ethnicities). Thats how I look at the term latino. If someone chooses to identify with the term latino thats cool (alot of my close friends are "latino"), but as far as Im concerned its bs.
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