Hispanics and birthday party's

[Anonymous]

OHMYGOD!
Yea all Hispanic people all do the same thing.
Wow, generalize much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OHMYGOD!
Yea all Hispanic people all do the same thing.
Wow, generalize much?

Are you Hispanic?

[Anonymous]

Seems like the party was at a place where they don't need a headcount. I doubt they would've asked the same if it had been in laser tag.
Have been to few of Latino birthday parties and they sure were fun with best food I've ever had. I wasn't invited but my friend was and it was no big deal that I went along. Everybody was so welcoming and friendly.

[Anonymous]

The food is always better, especially if it was homemade by someone's aunt/grandma. Here's a tip though: most people arrive very late so the party actually begins an hour or two later and lasts a long time!

[Anonymous]

Traditional home parties (i.e. not at the bouncy place) are meant to include the kid's extended family, friends, and friends' families. Tons of homemade food typically made by the mom, grandmom, aunts etc. Lots of music and fun. They are not the same as the typical timed "American" affairs -- where it's like you must drop off your child at 3 pm and clear out at 5 pm, even for a home party. The party will often last into the night and fashionable lateness is expected -- in part bc everything is being prepped by the family members and sometimes they really could use the extra half hr-45 min to finish up, get ready etc.

[Anonymous]

I'm Indian and growing up I remember (Indian) parties like this -- tons of food and the more the merrier; if you invited your friend and her parents and her cousins were in town, bring them along -- no shortage of food whatsoever. I think lots of Indians have shifted away from this now to the standard drop off party at a party place; though I have heard that in some of the super wealthy Indian circles, they are having huge (100-500 guest birthday) parties akin to weddings, but they are more formal catered affairs with headcounts etc.

Glad the Hispanic traditions of casual, family friendly celebrations are continuing though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That said, most learn not to bring siblings to white peoples venue parties.

Hispanics are White people too, dummy.

No. Some are white. Most are a mix of white and indigenous. Some are black (often Dominican and Cuban), and there are occasional Asians (esp. in Peru).

Maybe don't call others "dummy" if you don't know what you are talking about

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The food is always better, especially if it was homemade by someone's aunt/grandma. Here's a tip though: most people arrive very late so the party actually begins an hour or two later and lasts a long time!

Ugh, yes! I did not understand this before I married my DH and would show up on time. That made for some loooong afternoons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm Indian and growing up I remember (Indian) parties like this -- tons of food and the more the merrier; if you invited your friend and her parents and her cousins were in town, bring them along -- no shortage of food whatsoever. I think lots of Indians have shifted away from this now to the standard drop off party at a party place; though I have heard that in some of the super wealthy Indian circles, they are having huge (100-500 guest birthday) parties akin to weddings, but they are more formal catered affairs with headcounts etc.

Glad the Hispanic traditions of casual, family friendly celebrations are continuing though.

I'm Indian and we've done both. My kids have each had birthday parties with 100-150 people. Very casual affairs but everyone is welcome. We invite the kids' friends, our friends, our neighbors (the whole cul de sac showed up at the last one). Start at 11 or so, and for the people still around at 7:00 we order pizza and hang out. Good times, but tiring!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That said, most learn not to bring siblings to white peoples venue parties.

Hispanics are White people too, dummy.

No. Some are white. Most are a mix of white and indigenous. Some are black (often Dominican and Cuban), and there are occasional Asians (esp. in Peru).

Maybe don't call others "dummy" if you don't know what you are talking about

The usual term used to differentiate non-Hispanics (or non-Latinos, if you prefer that term) is to call them "Anglos" - so, if you wanted to make the point that the PP made, you'd say "Hispanic people learn not to bring siblings to Anglo parties."
Where I grew up, people just said "gringo," though. And there were degrees of gringo...like if you served Doritos and Pace salsa and said "Hasta la Vista" like Arnold Schwarzenegger, that was SUPER gringo. (But also where I grew up, no one used the word Latino and I think only newscasters really said Hispanic...you were Mexican, Indian, or Gringo, or some big mashup of two or more of those categories.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That said, most learn not to bring siblings to white peoples venue parties.

Hispanics are White people too, dummy.

No. Some are white. Most are a mix of white and indigenous. Some are black (often Dominican and Cuban), and there are occasional Asians (esp. in Peru).

Maybe don't call others "dummy" if you don't know what you are talking about

The usual term used to differentiate non-Hispanics (or non-Latinos, if you prefer that term) is to call them "Anglos" - so, if you wanted to make the point that the PP made, you'd say "Hispanic people learn not to bring siblings to Anglo parties."
Where I grew up, people just said "gringo," though. And there were degrees of gringo...like if you served Doritos and Pace salsa and said "Hasta la Vista" like Arnold Schwarzenegger, that was SUPER gringo. (But also where I grew up, no one used the word Latino and I think only newscasters really said Hispanic...you were Mexican, Indian, or Gringo, or some big mashup of two or more of those categories.)

No one says Anglo in colloquial speech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The food is always better, especially if it was homemade by someone's aunt/grandma. Here's a tip though: most people arrive very late so the party actually begins an hour or two later and lasts a long time!

Ugh, yes! I did not understand this before I married my DH and would show up on time. That made for some loooong afternoons.

Our neighbors are Hispanic and it took me a few times to get this right. I once showed up to a baby shower on time. I had to leave well before they opened the gifts or cut the cake...I'd been there 5 hours since the invitation said it started at 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That said, most learn not to bring siblings to white peoples venue parties.

Hispanics are White people too, dummy.

No, we are not dummy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That said, most learn not to bring siblings to white peoples venue parties.

Hispanics are White people too, dummy.

No. Some are white. Most are a mix of white and indigenous. Some are black (often Dominican and Cuban), and there are occasional Asians (esp. in Peru).

Maybe don't call others "dummy" if you don't know what you are talking about

The usual term used to differentiate non-Hispanics (or non-Latinos, if you prefer that term) is to call them "Anglos" - so, if you wanted to make the point that the PP made, you'd say "Hispanic people learn not to bring siblings to Anglo parties."
Where I grew up, people just said "gringo," though. And there were degrees of gringo...like if you served Doritos and Pace salsa and said "Hasta la Vista" like Arnold Schwarzenegger, that was SUPER gringo. (But also where I grew up, no one used the word Latino and I think only newscasters really said Hispanic...you were Mexican, Indian, or Gringo, or some big mashup of two or more of those categories.)

No one says Anglo in colloquial speech.

I do. And I think I've heard others do this. Do you just say "non-Latino whites"? That seems to me even weirder. I mean, I don't say it often, as there is not often an occasion on which I need to distinguish Latinos from non Latinos, but that's the way I'd say itif for instance, someone said "Larlo's Spanish accent is so nice--are his parents Latino?" And the answer was "His mom is, but his dad is Anglo."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my DS was invite to a party this weekend. He went and when we went to pick him up they asked us how come we didn't being his slibings to the party"! It's this common for Hispanics to invite everyone in the family to a birthday party? I fell bad because when we did our party when they asked us if they could we said no.my DS school is about half Hispanics!

Hispanic is not a culture, different Spanish speaking cultures do things differentlyand each family any and everywhere does things differently.

Signed,

A Latino