So NT Ina need ya to provide us Latinos with a color chart in which one goes from black to white so we Latinos as a whole can satisfy NT...this is getting out of hand.
This is exactly what America does to latinos.
Something we don't do to ourselves.
Honestly, this is the problem we're addressing right here.
Latin America and the United States are two
different places.
The problem arises when Latin Americans attempt to have their culture and social systems supersede our inalienable rights as natural born Americans.
Steezy, imagine we're on an island, shipwrecked. I've built a shelter where food and water are more abundant but you and Ninjahood are starving and hungry.
I decide to
allow you and Ninjahood to stay in my shelter as long as you help out.
Only condition is that you abide by the rules, not because I'm trying to change you in any way
but because through experience it's more effective in preserving the shelter.
What you and Ninjahood are doing is saying,
"we don't have to abide by your rules",
"you're GONNA respect that this is how we do things".
"Your struggle to build this shelter is not our problem"
...seems like self-segregating for no reason other than
pride. "Hispanic" and "Latino" is being used interchangeably in this debate, and when skin color becomes unavoidable then ethnicity and nationality take precedence. Problem is no one is refuting ethnicity, or the culture anyone chooses to adopt. But if you were born in American, then you're in fact an American. Obviously immigrants' way wasn't working on their part of the "shipwrecked island", so they came to America (my shelter) for "food and water".
Ethnocentrism
judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture Ethnocentric individuals
judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture, especially with concern for language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and subdivisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity. Ethnocentrism may be overt or subtle, and while it is considered a natural proclivity of human psychology, it has developed a generally negative connotation.
