Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-13965604-20140728162013

BoricuaWolf wrote: LadyX wrote:

DManCO wrote: "Latinos"/"Hispanics" are also technically a linguistic group, not a racial one. What a lot of people don't realize is that racism actually got worse after the Civil War, rather than better. Most actual Latin Americans are technically "Native Americans", although we tend not to treat people from south of the U.S. border as part of that category. But many, including Tyler Posey, are also mixed Caucasian and would actually have been considered "white" by all but the most racist standards. "I Love Lucy", the genre-defining sitcom, had a marriage between a Caucasian woman and a Latino man (both on the show and in real life) and it was not considered "interracial", even in the 1950's!

A lot of American "racial" categories are artificial, and political correctness hasn't helped. For example, North Africans such as Berbers, who have lived there throughout recorded history, would never be consider "African-Americans" if they lived here in the U.S. The term itself is therefore deceptive.

Quite a few Californian's have at least some Hispanic and/or Native American ancestry. Racial purity is largely a myth anyway. Scott's family may just be so many generations removed from their Mexican ancestry that they no longer retain any linguistic tell-tales such as an accent. I'm mostly Polish and only two generations removed from the "Old Country". Not only can I not pronounce those bizarre Slavic words, I can't even fake the accent! That's probably why I e never looked at Posey as anything more than a good looking American boy.

I never liked the term 'African American' it assumes three things. That they are of African descent, that they are from America, and that they are dark skinned. All three of which could be wrong.

Yeah, as a half Puerto Rican (My Screen name is the Spanish word derived from an indigenous Carib-Indian language for Puerto Rican Person) half African-American person (born and raised in Puerto Rico), the whole concept of Race and how it’s perceived in America irks me in general. LadyX hit it on the head with the term African-American being used as a euphemism for Black. You can’t assume all Dark people (even if they are of African descent) are African-American. The term really should only be applied to the Black people here in the US that descended from the Slave Trade. The term was only developed to refer to this group of people because they don’t know their actual countries of origin (oddly enough a lot of people forget that Africa is actually a continent). Even a recent immigrant from a Sub-Saharan African country would NOT be African-American. Their politically correct designation would refer to their native country just like European people (e.g. Nigerian-American).

It’s really cool how people’s different perspectives color how they see the world. You look at Posey and see an American guy, and I look at him and immediately see him as Latino. After seeing him in interviews (especially in the panel from this year’s Comic Con) I did get the impression that he is definitely removed from Mexican Culture (although that’s just my impression and I could be wrong). But as far as his look, I definitely SEE him as Latino.

It is very interesting. However, I feel like I should point out, the recent European immigrants, the few I know, don't refer to themselves as Dutch Americans. The mom considers herself Dutch still, but her daughter considers herself American. They moved here when the daughter was 14.