US Politics on Yik Yak | Wayyyy too many Americans are ignorant of the fact that there are white, black, asian, middle eastern, indigenous, etc… Latinos, Latino isn’t a race, is a cultural and pan-ethnic distinction. Most Latinos are mixed of some sort, usually white and native.

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Wayyyy too many Americans are ignorant of the fact that there are white, black, asian, middle eastern, indigenous, etc… Latinos, Latino isn’t a race, is a cultural and pan-ethnic distinction. Most Latinos are mixed of some sort, usually white and native.

US Politics 3w

I genuinely hope Mexico starts deporting all the white people.

Anonymous 3w

And there are plenty of white Mexicans

Anonymous 3w

Well as someone who’s half-Chinese (我也会说中文） I still can’t believe we get lumped in with the rest of Asia… can we at least divide by sub region?

Anonymous 3w

I’m mixed like many Latinos are in certain countries, White, black, a small bit of indigenous, this is common in the likes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil, but I’m not Latino, my white ancestors come from Britain and northwest Europe, there’s come from like Iberia and Southern Europe, both got black people from the same areas of Africa though so that’s what overlaps.

Anonymous

OP 3w

And I say this because I’m confused as being Latino on occasion because people conflate Latino with being a race lmao

Anonymous

#1 3w

East Asian. Britain typically does this, they distinguish between South Asian as they proportionally have a large population of Indians and Pakistanis

Anonymous

#1 3w

But America doesn’t have as many of them proportionally, America has more Chinese and other East Asian people in that matter, so people just generally say “Asian” to refer to them

Anonymous

OP 3w

Well I’m in the U.S., so it pisses me off every May when we somehow get lumped in with everybody from Siberia, all the way out into Polynesia

Anonymous

#1 3w

Fair ig, it’s just a matter of demographic conditions and history, the instances of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people simply being called “Asian” was because the Chinese to begin with were mainly the first wave of Asians to come to the US, and were highly influential out west, so much so that states like Idaho were once 25% Chinese, then you had Japanese people coming in and shit. There just werent as many south Asians coming in that would warrant a wider used distinction.

Anonymous

#1 3w

Asia, though, historically has had interconnected influences. China has had cultural and historical influences as far down as to Oceania and north into Siberia too, so there is arguably some merit to “lumping in”

Anonymous

OP 3w

That is true—but when we’re talking about East Asians, we generally talk about people who live in the Koreas, Vietnam, Japan, and China (which also includes the minority groups that live within them too).

Anonymous 3w

你在说什么？

Anonymous 3w

住口。🤣🤣🤣