Puerto Rican

[Lyn]

No shit?

[Ryko]

No shit?

None whatsoever.

[Lyn]

k, then ignore gogo

[Kuya]

Why do people feel so indignant when ryko tells them off. You would think they would at least shrug it off as lol internet.

[Lyn]

When it's consistent it gets pretty annoying.

[Ryko]

Why do people feel so indignant when ryko tells them off. You would think they would at least shrug it off as lol internet.

They don't listen to you when you tell them that insulting me in kind doesn't work, why do you think they'll listen to you now.

[Lyn]

If you mean me, that is!

[Ksandra]

Derp. They've been asking the hispanic origin question since 1970, nowhere on the form does it state that a specific country of hispanic origin is a race nor does it state that hispanic ISN'T a race, it just asks if you are hispanic aside from asking you your race.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y15...ino60/derp.jpg

Derp

[Ryko]

k, then ignore gogo

It is as much an inherent part of my nature to call people out on being dumbasses as it is part of your nature to be a dumbass.

When it's consistent it gets pretty annoying.

If you weren't consistently fucking stupid I wouldnt say anything.

[Lyn]

Sigh.

[Ryko]

Derp

Thank you, now...

"hispanic" does not count as a race because they included a SPECIFIC BOX in the case you wanted to mark hispanic. Stop being dumb. Similarly they have an "other box" if you want to mark asian and the asian country of origin wasn't included in the 5 specific asian demographics that they came up with.

Note that despite it all, it STILL DOES NOT STATE ANYWHERE THAT PUERTO RICAN WOULD BE ACCEPTED AS A RACE.

So he check marked "other" and listed his race as Puerto Rican.

Mother fucker should have looked in the mirror, grabbed a color scale and just fucking checked one. All that you're establishing is that you, as a dumb human being, socialize with other dumb human beings.

[Trinsie]

idc that people are only arguing over puerto rican being a race which anyone who isn't retarded knows it isn't.

I am here to say hispanic isn't a race. It is an origin. Your country was once walked on by spanish people and now you mostly speak spanish. Congratulations you are now hispanic, not a race though.

Example A


http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1687/puertinican.jpg







Man on the left is Puerto Rican, speaks spanish and is considered hispanic.

Man on the right is Dominican, speaks spanish and is considered hispanic.

Are they the same race?

My dictionary says Hispanic is "used to denote the culture and people of countries formerly ruled by Spain"

So Indians are White cause they were once ruled by britain?

Actually not white I mean their race is British?

Learn what a race is thanks. Puerto Rican is not a race. Hispanic is not a race.

[Ksandra]

STILL DOES NOT STATE ANYWHERE THAT PUERTO RICAN WOULD BE ACCEPTED AS A RACE.

because peurto rican isn't a race...

[Ksandra]

also:

"hispanic" does not count as a race because they included a SPECIFIC BOX in the case you wanted to mark hispanic. Stop being dumb. Similarly they have an "other box" if you want to mark asian and the asian country of origin wasn't included in the 5 specific asian demographics that they came up with.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...rss-topstories

Census officials say they're simply adhering to race-category standards laid out for all federal agencies in 1997 by the White House Office of Management and Budget, criteria they confirm will be re-evaluated before the 2020 census. (The Census that year will also be unlikely to retain Negro as a designation for African Americans; it is still on the 2010 form, a fact that has led to repeated apologies from the Census chief.) And Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group in Washington, D.C., says the Hispanic race question so far "has been hard to reconcile scientifically."

So you're not exactly right on that one either. It's more along what Trinsie is say where even if there is a demand to put it as a race, scientifically it doesn't work.

[Kuya]

Scientifically, the entire concept of race is absurd.

[Ryko]

Scientifically, the entire concept of race is absurd.

I was gonna go on this whole long diatribe how "white" is even less specific than hispanic is but I'll just go with this.

[Ksandra]

Scientifically, the entire concept of race is absurd.

tbh I agree actually. But it is what it is. And what a race is supposed to be deals with physically characteristics, not cultural characteristics. As Trinsie said there is really no similarities between Hispanics physically (besides the obvious things we all share). But Hispanics have become so large that I can easily see both sides of the argument. I wouldn't care one way or the other if they do list it as a race in the future. But the point of the thread was that saying Puerto Rican is a race is retarded.

[Kuya]

Culture is also an integral aspect of the concept of race. In other words, acting white or acting black.

[Kuya]

For example, Jews and the Irish weren't considered white.

[Ksandra]

For example, Jews and the Irish weren't considered white.

I have to look up the Irish thing because while I remember in the US the Irish had to deal with a lot of shit when they immigrated, but I don't remember that being a race issue so much as being similar to the current "Mexicans are taking our jerbs!" type of thing.

As to the Jews, they were considered lesser beings because of their faith. And the Jews originate from the Middle East so they wouldn't be considered white anyways. I will research this more as well.