Question for Latinos?

Question

Does your culture and heritage teach you to believe that the land your people lost in the Spanish American War was actually stolen from you and is still rightfully yours?
Is this the source of Latinos sense of entitlement in the United States today?

Answer 1

I don't think this is a general sentiment. Yes, we are thought at school, primary school to be more precise, that Mexico lost Texas and California to the US (which is very nationalistic teaching by the way).

Yet as we grow, we realise that Americans are more industrious, and we wonder whether Texas and California, were they still a part of Mexico today, be the powerhouses that they're ever been. So, deep in our psyche, I guess, we have come to realise that Texas and California are lost forever.

However, you're question is interesting. Think about a basin, where formally a river (or a lake existed). The place is naturally phrone to flood and inundations, simply because there used to be water in such basin and water naturally reclaims its place. So Texas and California are slowly been conquered by Spanish Speakers; simple because they used to be there!

Answer 2

Well, you are not very well educated are you?
First, Hispanics, a term we did not create for ourselves, was invented by the US govt. We have a common thing, language. I joke that my ancestors made the others learn our language.

First, Latino could be Italian or Spanish and French. Look it up.

Hispanics come from many places can be black, white, and brown.

The Mexican, so get it straight had the Mexican American War, the Spanish War is another subject. The Mexican and French against the Spanish. Hence many LATINOS have mixed blood.

I have land given to my family by the US govt in the Homestead Act and The Desert Land Act to settle the arid SW. Get some facts.


The land is still in the family part of the good old usa and Hispanics divorce less, are more loyal to family and are less likely to dump our parents into nursing homes. Less selfish and, the Spanish culture has been around for a lot longer than you think.

Oh yes, the most dedicated most volunteering of all races to serve in the US armed forces in times of war, is LATIN.

Answer 3

I am married to a Latin woman and I really think that your impression is so typically Good Ole' American. You know the ones that thought the Irish were a subhuman species in the 1830's after a potato famine drove them to our shores by the thousands to prevent them from starving. The No-Nothing party was developed at that time for a while to try to get rid of them politically. (You know by building walls and having 3 times more border patrols then before.) Until the turn of the century and finally the election of JFK as the first Irish President they were formed into gangs in NY and Boston primarily. Deadly gangs that did not have the ethics of the God-fearing Christian American politicians like Boss Tweed in NY that used the Irish gangs to muscle their way into greed and corruption. Then came the Industrial Revolution in the 1870's and this country, like any good capitalistic society, (I am not complaining just pointing out the reality of the mechanics of the system.) needed good reliable cheap labor. So the doors opened and my parents came from Italy and Austria to the streets of NY in the mid 1880's. By then the Irish were settling in and they were the Boston Police officers that made the "Wops" life hell. I guess the Irish were now becoming good Americans. The Century turned and the immigrants flowed in from Russia and eastern Europe to escape tyranny and procecution, and they needed a job to feed their families, (and they were also planning for the first Ukranian American President in 2024.) But they worked under intolerable conditions and child labor laws were passed to stop the wholesale abuse of the children. By now the Italians were into well organized gangs too. They were selling the liquor the temperent American Christians had prohibited by passing the 18th Constitutional Ammendment that denied the use of alcohol to the rest of the intemperent masses. This provided these Italian and other gangs the opportunity to use their newly found entrepreneurial American spirit which enabled them to set up one of our greatest organized crime families in history. During this time the greatest basketball players on the nation's basketball teams were tall Jewish boys. (Funny how that works when the poor become the greatest athletes like the Blacks and the Hispanics are today. Must have something to do with poverty and the American Dream. Do you think... ) I am not sure what your complaint is about these potential Americans, ( Statistically Hispanics will be 51% of the legal American population by 2050) but if you have ever seen what a migrant worker has to do to earn a meger living so you can have produce on your dinner table at reasonable prices then you might understand why if you try to throw out these 12 million illegals and stop them from coming back in you might find that formula for Capitalism is a very large uneducated worker class that supports the modest middle class, and the elite upper class. Stop the flow of those workers (The ones willing to work) and you will see the capitalistic society we have become so used to collapse and we will all be going to China looking for work and they have a 1400 mile wall there.

Answer 4

I was born in the US so I took everything taught to me to be fact. I didn't even learn about the Mexican American war until I dated a Mexican national. There is a saying, history books are written by the victors. I do not side with any of them because even the defeated can make **** up.

From my lifes travels in Mexico I can tell you this. Not everyone there thinks the land was stolen. Actually many there distrust their government so much that anything they say is just BS to them.

As for me, well I can't really say. Who is to say things may have turned out different otherwise.

Answer 5

Many Latinos I understand are Jewish and Zionist. The Catholic ones I understand could not deliver a crap. Your enjoy is possibly anecdotal. To the measure there is also anti-Israel emotions amongst non-Jewish Latinos, might be this can be as a result of the Arab Nationalist luck in casting themselves as "local"/"brown men and women" combating "white colonialists". If that is the case -- then having a genuine dialog approximately the realities of the problem is also valuable.

Answer 6

Listen white trash Mo fo, my familiy has been here for 200 years, back when you're family was F#cking each other on a ship with scurvy and crabs and VD

Answer 7

Absolutely NOT....I grew up in a very traditional Hispanic family....We were taught to be patriotic and serve our country, that is USA....I find it insulting that you think all would Latino's have a sense of entitlement....I taught was humility and service to our country....And to be grateful to live in such a free country....My parents adopted this country and NEVER taught us the US owes us something....We, in fact, owe this country our gratitude, for allowing us to come here for a better life...And of course my parents came here legally...

Answer 8

It was stolen from the indians...so anybody coming here has a right to stay as long as they pay taxes like everyone else.

Answer 9

I wasn't going to answer this one figuring people would give good answers.

THE FACT WHY HE'S ASKING IS BECAUSE MAYOR RECONQUISTA, LA RAZA, MECHA, MEXICA-MOVEMENT AND A HOST OF OTHERS INCLUDING THE MEXICAN GOVERNMNET SAYS SO!!

Answer 10

si gringo. and no we don't think the land was stolen form us, puto. we're the new n****ers and almost evryone hates us. assholes like you are the reason why. here's a hint. we are not latinos, we are mexicans. AND WHY THE **** DO I HAVE TO BE MEXICAN BEFORE AMERICAN EVEN IF I WAS BORN HERE? JUST BECUASE I AIN'T WHITE DOSEN'T MEAN I AIN'T AMERICAN. ...