Comments on: Worry Not- The New York Times Will Teach You How To Refer To Latinoids

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:55:03 +0000

“To RB’s ghost: Clearly a Pocho”

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! SNAP!

By: RobertoBolanosGhost

RobertoBolanosGhost — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:30:26 +0000

Doh!

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:27:50 +0000

“Good afternoon, Mensa member” …

Hahahahaha!!!!

By: Leesee

Leesee — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:16:27 +0000

To RB’s ghost: Clearly a Pocho.

By: RobertoBolanosGhost

RobertoBolanosGhost — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:48:36 +0000

Since Alex is defining what a Latino is or is not; what if you are born in the US, speaks terrible Spanish, has a Mexican mother and a Guatemalan father, does not like the term Hispanic or Latino, what am I?

By: Alex Alvarez

Alex Alvarez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:10:59 +0000

Good afternoon, Mensa member. Italians may be “Latins,” but there is some debate (somewhere, I guess) as to whether they are “Latinos.” Which is kind of the point of the post - these labels are ever-shifting and arguably arbitrary. But, of course, you knew this.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:40 +0000

“Another helpful hint? Never assume someone is Latino based on a picture. There have been so many instances when someone will describe a person as Hispanic only to later discover they are, like, Turkish or Italian”

Hey genius! Italians are the original Latinos . . .

By: Alex Alvarez

Alex Alvarez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:27:44 +0000

True, JP. Good point. I honestly always forget that Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship.

Although I still think the degree to which the NYT article mentions that Sotomayor’s aren’t immigrants as if saying so is insulting is funny. But, then again, maybe, like you pointed out, it is insulting to some Puerto Ricans.

By: sirenasa

sirenasa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:26:07 +0000

you guys should start a “stupid things white liberals say to make themselves feel better about privilege” category on this blog.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:11:51 +0000

“How is someone who moves from one place to another not an immigrant?”

Easy: you move from within a country to somewhere else within that same country. “Immigrant” normally implies moving from one country to another. Puerto Rico (whether one likes it or not, and I’m from there) is part of the United States at least insofar as citizenship is concerned (yeah yeah, we have our own Olympic team, totally different).

Like I said, I’m from Puerto Rico. When I moved from the island to Atlanta as a youngster, I didn’t immigrate, just like I didn’t immigrate when I later moved from the South to NYC. Sure, I had what you might call an immigrant experience, but I didn’t need to get a visa or a green card or even a new passport, didn’t have to take an oath of loyalty to a new country or hide from la migra.

“Not all immigrants are, like, poor and dirty.”

Maybe you should tell some Puerto Ricans that. Many take it as a point of pride that we are born American citizens. Calling Puerto Ricans immigrants implies (however unintentionally) that they were not American citizens before moving to the mainland. I think some Puerto Ricans would be offended by that.

-Jp