Americans Have No Culture

ProgMetaller2112 wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote: The T wrote: Call me other thing if you want. Just don't call me Chicano or Mexican because I am not Mexican. And everybody who comes from other countries in Central and South America that are not Mexico are NOT Mexicans. I know that but if you are living in the US you are living the Chicano experience. Meaning you might be a brown in the US and a whitey from whereever you come from be it Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala. Just because you are not Mexican does not make you any better than anyone who is Clearly you are using the Chicano term incorrectly and you are offending The T by doing it. It would probably be best to do as he asks and use another term. I know what the term stands for and I know if I am using it incorrectly  OK I won't use the term for him(even though I believe he is committing a denial of something). Honestly, I don't see why he would be offended by it

Denial of what?! That I am a Mexican? Of course I am not! I am a mix of Spaniards and native indigenous Americans from the Andean region.

Edited by The T - May 24 2014 at 22:20

The T wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote: The T wrote: Call me other thing if you want. Just don't call me Chicano or Mexican because I am not Mexican. And everybody who comes from other countries in Central and South America that are not Mexico are NOT Mexicans. I know that but if you are living in the US you are living the Chicano experience. Meaning you might be a brown in the US and a whitey from wherever you come from be it Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala. Just because you are not Mexican does not make you any better than anyone who is Where the f**k have I said I am better than anybody? You are obviously ignorant of how racists Americans call every single hispanic person, "spic", or others use "Mexican", not because being a Mexican is an insult, but because calling everybody who speaks Spanish Mexican is saying "you are all the same". If that can't get through your thick head I have no hope of having any more discussion with you.

Enough, guys.  Maybe open your own thread.

Who are you to tell me what I am supposed to think? You don't even know who I am or what I look like. You are doing your blanket statements again. I'm not denying that I have indigenous blood and I am proud of it but of mine, not of yours. That's why many people in South America think Mexicans think themselves superior, because they think they can represent an entire f**king continent.

And yes I also have f**king hispanic blood and I speak Spanish and have lots of heritage from their culture too. Go give your third-rate racial-resentment moral advise to somebody else. I'm happy being MESTIZO, which means MIXED.

The T wrote: Who are you to tell me what I am supposed to think? You don't even know who I am or what I look like. You are doing your blanket statements again. I'm not denying that I have indigenous blood and I am proud of it but of mine, not of yours. That's why many people in South America think Mexicans think themselves superior, because they think they can represent an entire f**king continent. And yes I also have f**king hispanic blood and I speak Spanish and have lots of heritage from their culture too. Go give your third-rate racial-resentment moral advise to somebody else. I'm happy being MESTIZO, which means MIXED.

Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - May 24 2014 at 22:38

^That's the best possible way to grow up, color-blind, and also blanket-term-mute, if I might say it this way.

Absolutely true.

Like here in FL instead of Mexican there is a strong Caribbean and especially Cuban undercurrent and tons of their food, which in the case of rice and beans I can't get tired from

I was just thinking about how much Cuban you get there-- absolutely love the music.  I'm always stunned when I think how Cuban exports including music were (are?) banned here.   It's utterly stupid.

The embargo in general is the most stupid measure by any government ever.

Something I just thought of seeing my World Cup sticker album , and I don't want to rekindle the thankfully-ended discussion: there is also African heritage in South America and central America, not much in Mexico, but a lot in other countries (including Cuba). So even then not all people from south of the border have the same origin.

Smurph wrote: I literally would want to distance myself from any existing culture. I don't have a culture. I don't believe in representing your heritage or any of that stuff. Why would anyone care about their heritage? I'd rather push into territory in which I am not familiar.