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Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
Hey Simple Jack ... what do you call person of European descent from a Spanish speaking country?
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It depends on which "Spanish speaking country" ..
(Trying to locate a country that speaks Spanish ... in fact a country that even speaks!)
If you mean a country in which the predominant language is Spanish ... like Spain .. then I would call them "Spanish" ... if like Mexico ... then I would call them Mexican ... if like Cuba, then Cuban .. etc.
A problem with all this obsession with "political correctness" is that it begs for people being placed in a "pigeon hole" and invariably one doesn't "fit" ... like ...
"African-American" ... typically people identify someone who is Black and a U.S. citizen as being "African-American" ... the "stereotype" being that a person with "black" skin color is from an ancestry coming from Africa ... which fortunately is a large continent encompassing a lot of different countries in which the predominant skin color is "black" ... There are "white" African-Americans ..
.. the same can be said for people with brown skin .. a lot are lumped into the label of "Mexican-American" .. even though they are not from Mexico and resent the association. Then in the "Latin American" there are a log of extremely fair-skinned blondes and redheads. Many fairer than many "Americans" (which is how most U.S. citizens refer to themselves) even though people who live in South, Central, and Northern America are also "Americans" just like those from the continent of African are called "African"!!!
Our obsession in this country with labeling and data collection by "race" or "ethnicity" ........
.......... creates the pigeon holes and the government labels them.