Are Latino families the least represented?

[Anonymous]

We’re an incoming Latino family at a TT. While we’re very excited, when we went to the most recent event hosted by the school, I don’t think I saw many families from our ethnic background. To me, it seems as though Black families are actually more represented in the student body.

Is this the case at most schools? I know most schools don’t give a specific breakdown of demographics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re an incoming Latino family at a TT. While we’re very excited, when we went to the most recent event hosted by the school, I don’t think I saw many families from our ethnic background. To me, it seems as though Black families are actually more represented in the student body.

Is this the case at most schools? I know most schools don’t give a specific breakdown of demographics.

This is fine. You "actually more" is dramatic. Black people and Lations are not siblings in a family in which both always have the same things for fairness sake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re an incoming Latino family at a TT. While we’re very excited, when we went to the most recent event hosted by the school, I don’t think I saw many families from our ethnic background. To me, it seems as though Black families are actually more represented in the student body.

Is this the case at most schools? I know most schools don’t give a specific breakdown of demographics.

no black people are not so stupid and downtrodden that one has to be so shocked that they are apparently outachieving those who claim minority/disadvantaged status for social and govt benefits, while asserting "we are hardworking, family oriented, and smart unlike the blacks" for social status.

[Anonymous]

I think yall are misunderstanding OPs question.

They are wondering why Latino families are not applying (and being admitted) to private schools at the same rate.

Latino students make up roughly 42.3% of all NYC students, yet I do agree, they’re not as represented in the private school scene.

[Anonymous]

Who is Latino? I know a bunch of families at our school where one or both parents came from Argentina, Colombia, Chile. Does that count?

[Anonymous]

Most Latino will prioritize a dual language program and/or a catholic orientated school (similar to their upbringing). Latino isn’t an ethnicity so you wouldn’t really know unless you hear them speak spanish.

[Anonymous]

For better or for worse, there is a Black UMC that has a presence in elite NYC industries, summers in Sag Harbor and Martha’s Vineyard, etc. Correspondingly this group sends their kids to TTs. Latino is a catchall term for a group of people who have little in common at the end of the day, and therefore have a harder time banding together for representation. — Nuyorican who went to public school followed by an Ivy.

[Anonymous]

I think you will find a lot of Latino parents at most private schools. "Latino" is such a broad category and covers people from many countries, I personally have known fellow parents from Mexico, Cuba, PR, DR, Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.

[Anonymous]

Unlike Black families, which are more monolithic in my opinion, Latino/Hispanic families are so much more varied and diverse, which causes their sense of community to be more country-specific and language-specific.

For example, families from Argentina or Spain are more white-passing and have more European influences, whereas as families from Brazil might connect through their shared knowledge of Portuguese, which is very different from let’s say a family from Mexico.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unlike Black families, which are more monolithic in my opinion, Latino/Hispanic families are so much more varied and diverse, which causes their sense of community to be more country-specific and language-specific.

For example, families from Argentina or Spain are more white-passing and have more European influences, whereas as families from Brazil might connect through their shared knowledge of Portuguese, which is very different from let’s say a family from Mexico.

This will have to stay as an opinion because as I hope you are aware “Black” families can come from Brazil and other countries in Latin America (DR, PR, Cuba, Panama….) the English speaking Caribbean (Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad…), the US, and countries in Africa. So this group of people that you opine is “monolithic” is actually more diverse than your comparative group. Blackness spans multiple languages including Spanish, continents and religions. I am Nigerian and my wife’s family is Cuban/Jamaican. Our kids identify as Black American, Latino and West -Indian and we have had rich connections with many families at our TT within all of these groups, but also rich connections with people outside of those groups. I was raised in TX to find commonalities with others based on values and hobbies. That’s how I met my wife actually. Maybe try to do the same OP?

[Anonymous]

Not sure how accurate this is, but you can check here for demographic information:

https://projects.propublica.org/private-school-demographics/search/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unlike Black families, which are more monolithic in my opinion, Latino/Hispanic families are so much more varied and diverse, which causes their sense of community to be more country-specific and language-specific.

For example, families from Argentina or Spain are more white-passing and have more European influences, whereas as families from Brazil might connect through their shared knowledge of Portuguese, which is very different from let’s say a family from Mexico.

This will have to stay as an opinion because as I hope you are aware “Black” families can come from Brazil and other countries in Latin America (DR, PR, Cuba, Panama….) the English speaking Caribbean (Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad…), the US, and countries in Africa. So this group of people that you opine is “monolithic” is actually more diverse than your comparative group. Blackness spans multiple languages including Spanish, continents and religions. I am Nigerian and my wife’s family is Cuban/Jamaican. Our kids identify as Black American, Latino and West -Indian and we have had rich connections with many families at our TT within all of these groups, but also rich connections with people outside of those groups. I was raised in TX to find commonalities with others based on values and hobbies. That’s how I met my wife actually. Maybe try to do the same OP?

You kids are Nigerian American, Latino American, and West Indian.

Black American=Foundational Black Americans aka ADOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unlike Black families, which are more monolithic in my opinion, Latino/Hispanic families are so much more varied and diverse, which causes their sense of community to be more country-specific and language-specific.

For example, families from Argentina or Spain are more white-passing and have more European influences, whereas as families from Brazil might connect through their shared knowledge of Portuguese, which is very different from let’s say a family from Mexico.

This will have to stay as an opinion because as I hope you are aware “Black” families can come from Brazil and other countries in Latin America (DR, PR, Cuba, Panama….) the English speaking Caribbean (Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad…), the US, and countries in Africa. So this group of people that you opine is “monolithic” is actually more diverse than your comparative group. Blackness spans multiple languages including Spanish, continents and religions. I am Nigerian and my wife’s family is Cuban/Jamaican. Our kids identify as Black American, Latino and West -Indian and we have had rich connections with many families at our TT within all of these groups, but also rich connections with people outside of those groups. I was raised in TX to find commonalities with others based on values and hobbies. That’s how I met my wife actually. Maybe try to do the same OP?

We don't need to use "Black" to describe all people of near or distant African descent as of we all have something in common (we don't at all). Doing so is an attempt to link oneself to African American people, but we are a distinct ethnicity that one just cannot hop into because you have ancestors or recent relatives from Africa and you happen to be in the U.S. now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unlike Black families, which are more monolithic in my opinion, Latino/Hispanic families are so much more varied and diverse, which causes their sense of community to be more country-specific and language-specific.

For example, families from Argentina or Spain are more white-passing and have more European influences, whereas as families from Brazil might connect through their shared knowledge of Portuguese, which is very different from let’s say a family from Mexico.

Yes, this is true, if you mean black to refer to FBAs or ADOSs which has been its normal usage untill some recently have tried to make "Black" global (which it is not). If you are African, just say which country you are from (Nigerian-American, Kenyan American, etc)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unlike Black families, which are more monolithic in my opinion, Latino/Hispanic families are so much more varied and diverse, which causes their sense of community to be more country-specific and language-specific.

For example, families from Argentina or Spain are more white-passing and have more European influences, whereas as families from Brazil might connect through their shared knowledge of Portuguese, which is very different from let’s say a family from Mexico.

This will have to stay as an opinion because as I hope you are aware “Black” families can come from Brazil and other countries in Latin America (DR, PR, Cuba, Panama….) the English speaking Caribbean (Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad…), the US, and countries in Africa. So this group of people that you opine is “monolithic” is actually more diverse than your comparative group. Blackness spans multiple languages including Spanish, continents and religions. I am Nigerian and my wife’s family is Cuban/Jamaican. Our kids identify as Black American, Latino and West -Indian and we have had rich connections with many families at our TT within all of these groups, but also rich connections with people outside of those groups. I was raised in TX to find commonalities with others based on values and hobbies. That’s how I met my wife actually. Maybe try to do the same OP?

We don't need to use "Black" to describe all people of near or distant African descent as of we all have something in common (we don't at all). Doing so is an attempt to link oneself to African American people, but we are a distinct ethnicity that one just cannot hop into because you have ancestors or recent relatives from Africa and you happen to be in the U.S. now.

I know. I used quotations marks because it’s a quote. I was quoting the person to whom I responded…