On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
> frank scott wrote:
>
> >to most liberals, an upper class Venezuelan doesn't qualify as "latino",
>
> No, but let's interrogate this term "Latino," can we? Why should
> upper class Venezuelans and poor Mexican share the same label once
> they enter the U.S. - and share it with third generation Nuyoricans,
> second-generation Dominicans, and Miami Cubans? Doesn't it reflect a
> white Anglo view of the world, in which all the Spanish-speaking
> peoples of the hemisphere blend into one undifferentiated alien mass?
>
> Doug
Yep. Kinda like "Asian-American": a hodge-podge of different groups that have no coherent, unified identity (yep, the Chinese and Japanese have been best buddies forever!). Hey, from the perspective of "whites", they all look the same, so we can just toss them all into the same category.
Miles