2007-02-11 08:05:24 · 18 answers · asked by lola 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Thank you! Thank you! Although many people in here are mostly criticizing you or saying " duh" you'll be surprised about the number of people who think all Latinos are Mexicans or that all illegal immigrants are Mexican also. Maybe they do know that's not true, but they unconsciously don't put into practice what they know.....if that makes sense.
2007-02-11 12:45:00 · answer #1 · answered by Miladi 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What in the world would make you think that we don't know the word "Latino" encompasses a number of Countries?
Lets just start with Spain, the first country to land on American shores by sponsoring Christopher Columbus in 1492. The Spanish married many of the native Indians in this country, thus the Hispanic or Latino. All of South America is Latino, Cuba, Puerto Rico; just to name a few, there are more but perhaps you should do some study into your own culture.
2007-02-11 08:35:59 · answer #2 · answered by geegee 6 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Do you actually think you know some big secret others do not know??? There are the people from El Salvador ( who hate being called Mexican), the people from Honduras (who hate being called Mexican), the people of Chile (who hate being called Mexican) , the people from Puerto Rico (who hate being called Mexican) .... and here's a news flash. Many second and third generation Mexicans do not speak Spanish, do not want to live in Mexico, and they will tell you they are Americans... not Mexicans.
2007-02-11 08:47:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
not all Latinos are Mexican,
not all illegals are Mexican
not all illegals are Latino
Mexican and Latino immigrants are welcome
but all illegals are illegal and need to go
2007-02-11 22:17:53 · answer #4 · answered by robug 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course Latinos aren't all Mexicans. However, what does that have to do with immigration and all the illegal alien criminals? MOST of the illegal alien criminals ARE from Mexico.
2007-02-11 08:14:33 · answer #5 · answered by Dizney 5 · 7⤊ 3⤋
i know all Latinos are not Mexicans from Mexico down to Chile you can find them.
2007-02-11 08:13:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 2⤋
Who thinks that?? Usually when I see a Mexican, I refer to them as a Mexican, or if I see Puerto RIcan, I refer to them as Puerto RIcan. If I am addressing a group of mixed people of Spanish decent I guess I would call them all Latino or Hispanic...
2007-02-11 08:12:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 5⤋
Thank you robug finally someone understands.... but yeah as well as people from puerto rico dont like to be called Mexican etc.... us "MEXICANS" hate to be called puerto ricans etc... please dont degrade us...
2007-02-12 06:26:27 · answer #8 · answered by Gil 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know anyone that thinks that they are.That's sort of silly isn't it? Maybe its only Hispanics that think that other people think that about them.? Hmmm
I certainly don't think that at all.
Do all Hispanics think all Americans are in-bred as the person up above does.Why the racists slur ?
2007-02-11 09:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
nope i know they aren't. but i think many people couldn't tell the difference between a latino that's puerto rican from one that is
mexican. and yet these same people claim they can tell the difference between a legal citizen and an illegal one.
2007-02-11 08:36:25 · answer #10 · answered by Nexus K 4 · 5⤊ 4⤋