All of this because someone asked a question concerning "Mexicans" standing on the side of the street? I am predominantly Italian. Since I have lived in NC, during the Summer months especially, I have been asked multiple times, "are you Mexican"? It doesn't hurt my feelings at all. I just smile and say no. I would say, both IGNORANCE and the PC-BS is whats destroying America, amongst other things...
Someone actually answered the question and it WAS Mexicans afterall. So there's that. Additionally, I used Mexican as a noun not an adjective. What is obvious though, is that, the term Mexican seems to carry a ton of implied stigma and negativity. And it's almost like some posters applied their own negativity to the term, got upset about their own reaction and told me off for it lol. I agree with a lot of posters here. Our society needs to stop dissection and over analysis of every little thing and focus on the bigger picture.....not to further hijack my own thread, but no wonder we are producing children who get in the real world and fail to thrive!
The one who has called anything racism is you, I haven't ever mentioned racism, I said people should understand that there are different hispanic cultures. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, not racism. As I already stated I am American, once again, I guess you can't understand how someone could be born in America and still be hispanic.
My point is this. Nobody cares about your genetics but you. You are American. And yes, I am not living under a rock. Unless you are an American Indian, you are bla, bla, bla, even when born in America.
I suppose that is why they have the Highland games at Grandfather Mountain every year and the stores where you can buy tartans for your family name because the strong Scots-Irish heritage is just a myth left over from a few centuries back.
And just as I stated wayne. Nobody cares but you, because you are Scots-Irish. Everybody is something other than American unless you are American Indian and your family has never bred with any of us squatters.
Unless you call a Scotts-Irish an Englishman .... there are issues with that. There was a translation of the New Testament into Scots back in the 1980s except for the statements made by the devil, which translated into "London English" because every Scot knows the devil is English.
Wouldn't an American Indian be someone who was originally from America and now was a citizen of India?
Most call them Native Americans. Sherry From your link: Disclaimer: The American Indian Heritage Foundation or Indians.org do not personally endorse or support any of the comments made within the writings of this article.
Here I fixed it now nobody will feel hurt or intimidated... Except me because of my English heritage, I'm going to have a cry-baby meltdown. Does anyone know what was happening on Cornwallis Road this morning (around 11.30am)? There was a line of traffic accompanied by police escort with several Englishmen standing on the side of the road in matching hoodies. They were just standing, not doing anything particular. Their hoodies seemed religious in nature. The cavalcade seemed to have a float and someone carrying a lit metal torch at the front. Never seen it before, just wondering what it was?
I'm dying at all the "Englishman" references. I am pretty sure I've been annoying an Englishman for some time now. I married him and dragged him across the pond and now he's stuck with my non pc, apparently culturally and geographically unaware self. Oh the irony P.s. He also referred to the parade participants as Mexicans. What's his excuse?
And the hundreds of OTHER Scots-Irish who attend the games and support that heritage. That group is like many other groups where their heritage is concerned. Look at how upset some of you get when your heritage is attacked by calling a certain flag a symbol of racism. Think a little and try that thing called empathy and you may understand why some people do not like their heritage misrepresented.
Simple. If you are not sure of someone's nationality, race, ethnicity, etc. you choose the broadest term possible to describe them. If you are on a bus in Chicago and the white person in front of you speaks in a language that you cannot make out it might be best to refer to them as European, perhaps. If you can nail it down to Polish, Slavic, or Russian then say Eastern European. If it sounds like the Chef from the muppets, perhaps use the term Scandinavian. This is where the term Hispanic comes in. I honestly could care less about political correctness, but I see it more as an affront to decency and a display of ignorance when people don't bother to learn the least little bit about the basics of geography and world history. I have seen people refer to Indians or Aborigines as Arabs before and it just boggles the mind that basic knowledge of the world we live on is reduced to, "Well...they're brown, aren't they?"
