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Originally Posted by Choro&Swing
It’s like the small group of academics and activists who decided that Native Americans was better than American Indians. Then the Smithsonian Institute did a survey of actual American Indians on reservations and discovered that they preferred to be called American Indians. Or the small number of academics and activists who find Latinos and Latinas sexist, so want everyone to be caLed LatinX. Really? Well, actually, nearly all Latins can’t stand LatinX, but why should that matter to the politically correct? After all, they are CORRECT! So we should all do what they say, right?
Or those want to call all Mexican-Americans “Chicanos.” Only a small percentage like that. (Those who prefer it are usually highly political and anti-assimilationist.)
I don’t mind calling people what they like to be called, but I’m opposed to being shamed into doing it or forced into doing it. The NYTimes yesterday had an article yesterday on whether black should be capitalized while white is not. The idea is that Black stands for activism and rebellion and trying to get power and pride and fighting back, but black does not. But what if we all just want to get along with each other? I believe in assimilation and integration. The better cooked the stew, the better the flavor mix. I’m opposed to separatism.
A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’? - The New York Times |
I grew up in New Mexico and until the virus all but shut down travel visited often over the years as I maintain business interests there. Every American Indian I have ever met or known there identifies himself/herself as an Indian, be they Navajo, Pueblo or Apache.
Also I was married to a hispanic lady from NM for 26 years. She has six siblings. No one in her family ever refers to themselves as Latino or Latina, ever. A DNA test showed she is about 28% American Indian which is probably par for the course over there as the Spanish started settling the area in 1598 or thereabouts.
Recently some rioters tried to tear down a statue of Onate in Albuquerque and were stopped but the authorities did afterwards remove it. He and his outfit treated the Indians terribly and enslaved some.
The area is tricultural: Indian, Hispanic and Anglo. While there are no doubt underlying tensions over many matters both past and present most folks get along most of the time and intermarriage is common and not even noteworthy.
Interestingly enough, John Wayne was attracted to hispanic women. His widow, Pilar, now 91 years of age, is Peruvian and well loved in Newport Beach.