Latinos assimilating into white society part 5363849

[Professor Emeritus]

I really don't think this applies to Gen Z and milennial Latinos. I live around people of all ethnicities and I don't find whites and Latinos to have much in common, generally. I also never met any Latinos (even white looking ones) who consider themselves white.

The number of Latinos identifying as white has plummeted in the recent census too.

When I became a teacher and started interacting with brand new Latinos who had just arrived from South America was the first time I found out that Latinos could identify as White. They were rich kids from Venezuela and Columbia and possibly other countries who put "White" on all their forms, it completely confused me at first.

I had never once encountered that growing up or in college. All the Latinos I knew when I was growing up were brown as hell and had no way of seeing themselves as equivalent to White people. And in college the Latinos I knew were pretty much all militants.

There are definitely plenty of white-identifying Latinos out there in certain places but anyone who tries to pretend it's the norm is either ignorant or Floridian (same thing).

 

[Sohh_lifted]

When I became a teacher and started interacting with brand new Latinos who had just arrived from South America was the first time I found out that Latinos could identify as White. They were rich kids from Venezuela and Columbia and possibly other countries who put "White" on all their forms, it completely confused me at first.

I had never once encountered that growing up or in college. All the Latinos I knew when I was growing up were brown as hell and had no way of seeing themselves as equivalent to White people. And in college the Latinos I knew were pretty much all militants.

There are definitely plenty of white-identifying Latinos out there in certain places but anyone who tries to pretend it's the norm is either ignorant or Floridian (same thing).

We got dominicans that try to identify as white.

 

[Da King]

why do yall get offended so much when latinos(who would be considered white in their country) assimilate or want to assimilate with white Americans? lol

Because cac, they’re cacs when convenient and then minorities when convenient

 

[Premeditated]

Because cac, they’re cacs when convenient and then minorities when convenient

as long as their are not pretending to be black, who cares?
just because some latinos choose to be under the minority category doesn't mean that black folks should take it as them trying to be your ally.
dumb motherfukker

 

[Alvin]

When I became a teacher and started interacting with brand new Latinos who had just arrived from South America was the first time I found out that Latinos could identify as White. They were rich kids from Venezuela and Columbia and possibly other countries who put "White" on all their forms, it completely confused me at first.

I had never once encountered that growing up or in college. All the Latinos I knew when I was growing up were brown as hell and had no way of seeing themselves as equivalent to White people. And in college the Latinos I knew were pretty much all militants.

There are definitely plenty of white-identifying Latinos out there in certain places but anyone who tries to pretend it's the norm is either ignorant or Floridian (same thing).

that's why, most of the wealth like in our country is skewed towards white people, also those kids could've possibly been Spaniard, Italian or Portuguese and just born in the host country so by default are "latino"