Too often, a person who damn well knows they have no indigenous/black ancestry will use Spanish language last name to pretend they're a poc.
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White people, including those with Spanish last names, colonized the americas, including south of the US border.
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They'll suggest they're a woc when it's convenient. They're not. They don't got poc in their families. They don't even got poc friends.
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I've noticed that a lot of white women with hyphenated last names (one English, one Spanish) claim latina identity. Hella white tho.
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They have one white latinx parent, or marry someone with a Spanish last name. Take advantage of educational and job opportunity for woc.
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It's súper shady. And well-meaning but hella ignorant non-latinx white folks don't know the difference, and reward them.
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how would he still be considered Latino though? His heritage is Polish, none of his roots lay in Latina America
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he and his parents are Mexican and he was raised as a Mexican. So Latino.
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they're Mexican by citizenship, not heritage or culture. They're still Polish. Not Latino.
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Might be helpful to think of Vicente Fox. He's white, and he's Mexican.
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He has a similar situation to Tomas in your diagram
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I and just because my name is Jon and I voted a certain way doesn't make me a racist homophobic nazi
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I know someone similar to Tomas. Came to the US age 10, started learning English then. On the SATs, the "white" option was...
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"White, non-Hispanic," so she checked off "Hispanic." Got automatically submitted for a bunch of Hispanic scholarships and stuff
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This is helpful.
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my problem with the cartoon is it suggests that intersectionality is important, but not for Jewish identity. Which is dumb
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thank you!
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