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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spanish is the Caucasian side.  Perceived as more desireable.[/quote]

This. These kids have picked up on the perceived higher SES status of white European descendants in the Americas and want to identify "their people" as such.  It may not even be conscious on their part but just parroting what they hear from older generations.  Its really sad actually and demonstrates the horrible infection of racism, even of people's who are the victim of it.[/quote]

You clearly are not around a lot of Hispanic kids.  Starting at a young age they just use Spanish to mean people who speak Spanish, but they also identify based on their parents' country of origin.  Nothing to do with trying to appear white, it's just a designation for a sense of community with others who speak the language.  It's similar to people who are from the Caribbean, they have a sense of community with others from the Caribbean, but identify as from the individual country.  The people who actually go out of their way to say the are Spanish to identify as white are not the lower SES kids, it's the house higher SES  bigots.[/quote]

You are correct. I grew up in Los Angeles.   These kids have absolutely no desire to be white. They are identifying by the language spoken. [/quote]

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