I'm not sure,I may be wrong,but they may be Mulatto.I'm Puerto Rican, and a Brazilian woman told me that I was not Hispanic or Latino, she said that I was Mulatto,and that right there made me red.How dare she say that Puerto Ricans are a race of Mulattos?
That word applies to Cubans,Dominicans,and some Colombians.
I refuse to believe that are any Puerto Ricans that are Mulatto.
2007-01-08 16:12:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
First and most important I am Puerto Rican. The term Mulatto revers to one who has white and black parents. Our beautiful history derives from Taino Indians, Spaniards , and Africans. No colors mentioned. So it is only through her sincere low self esteem that she speaks such trash. If she was able to read she might even find out that we have quite similar histories.
2007-01-08 16:33:54 · answer #1 · answered by jai 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A.) Brazilians aren't hispanic/latino because Brazil was settled by the Portugese and not the Spanish. The components of the Brazilian people are relatively similar. Both hispanics and Brazilians come from a native southern american indians and European settlers from the Iberian peninsula. And Brazil like several hispanic countries has a large amount of African influence due to the colonial slave trade. The term "mulatto" itself originally refers to anyone of a mixed black and caucasian background (which applies to many latin/south american countries). This can include Puerto Rico, but as far as I know there is less of an African-descended population in PR as there is in Cuba or the Dominican Republic.
2007-01-09 00:41:32 · answer #2 · answered by Joe 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You should check your history, because puerto ricans (including myself) are a mixture of lot of races :) you've got tienos... etc... I wouldn't get offended by that comment, as it's not a negative thing.
we're all hot just the same....
I was blessed with medium tones, but my family consists of light skins (can pass for white) with blonde hair and blue and green eyes and dark skin brown eyes, brown hair, and straight up red heads... and ALL of them are directly from different areas in Puerto Rico.
2007-01-09 00:22:53 · answer #3 · answered by TVSPBT 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sweetie you do not understand race, nationality, the off-springs of slavery, geography, mixed race, black, white, Latin, Hispanic or the historic origins of the culture you were born into.
I was shocked at 13 too, when I learn my ancestors were slaves. I thought we originated on my island. That's the main reason I travelled to other countries where people who shared my bloodline llive.
Do you get equally red when they tell you your ancestors were slaves taken to Puerto Rico to work in the cane fields too, or that the religious statue on your little table (next to the candles) that you call chango is from your African roots or that the little nappy head dark skinned girls I saw on the beach in Pinones are black?
I've spent time in Puerto Rico and in Bahia and Rio - we are all off-springs of slaves, papi.
Cubans and Haitians are of the same mixture.
Slavery did not bypass some islands, bro. We just don't dwell on it the way they do in the US of A.
They dropped us off on islands all along the Atlantic Ocean and in North, South and Central America too.
Embrace it, you came from good stock - we survived!
2007-01-09 00:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
mulatos are the ones that have the mix of two different races, like black and white.
hispanics are the ones from any country which language is spanish, like spain, venezuela, argentina, puerto rico, cuba...etc
latins are the ones from any country which language is one derived from LATIN , like italian, portuguese, spanish, etc.
therefore :
brazilians are latins, coz their language is portuguese.
some of them maybe mulatos, some may not.
puerto ricans are hispanic an latins .
some of them may be mulatos, some may not.
now, the word "latino" and the word "hispanic" have been adopted in the usa to name the people who live there and have latinamerican or spanic ascendense.
that is the way it is.
i hope my explanation was helpful to you.
2007-01-09 00:28:31 · answer #5 · answered by peaceful light 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Belive as you like but the combination of spanish native indian and black is ever present in at least two out of three for most of south america .....some say Chalito or mixed breed .
2007-01-09 00:19:17 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
UMmm The Brazillians are mixed with African blood and Speak Portugese which has ties to Spain. Which in essence is close to latino Culture and blood ties. They aint no different!
2007-01-09 08:08:12 · answer #7 · answered by david s 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What are you talking about some Puerticans have African and European blood
2007-01-09 00:19:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
stop thinking about ur race . do somethin creative
2007-01-09 00:22:35 · answer #9 · answered by darius 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋