Re:How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality
by oblio on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:13AM
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To Europeans the whole US "white" thing is ludicrous. Americans count Hispanics as non-White, and while a good percentage of them are probably mixed, a big group are definitely what we'd call "white". You guys would go to Spain and Italy and call locals "Hispanics", based on your definition, while no German (for example) would ever do that.
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Re:How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality
by lotsofpulp on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:31AM
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I think it's a class/culture thing, not a skin color thing. Hispanic implies you speak Spanish at home, likely to be an immigrant, maybe 1st or 2nd generation to be born in America, and your food/holiday/overall culture is different from the old "white" American one depicted in old TV shows and movies.
Re:How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality
by DarkKomunalec on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:22AM
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I live an hour's drive away from Italy, and it doesn't seem ludicrous to me to notice that people have less European ancestry south of the US border. Although this holds increasingly true for the south of the US itself, as well.