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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the people in the back, not all Hispanic/Latino people have indigenous features. We come in many “shades”. Walking around campus and not seeing many “stereotypical” Latino students, does not mean there really aren’t a lot of them there. [/quote]

But the only thing you share is a language.

Your family has benefited from colonization, slavery, feudal plantations, and a racist class system in your home country for however long they were there, be it 20 years or 400.

Why should you get priority admission over your landscaper from El Salvador's kids? They're indigenous to the Americas. Their family has suffered centuries of oppression and displacement--up to the present day.

You're not the same.

I'm all for overturning the simplistic definitions of race and culture we use, definitions that are gamed by the UMC just as everything else is. I would like to see emphasis be placed on first generation, and not on divisive arguments about race that create monolithic definitions based on skin tone that have no relation to history or heredity. [/quote]

I agree with many of your points, yet still, as a Hispanic woman, less-indigenous looking and college educated, I have still been a victim of racism by white men and women. Men approached me assuming I was “easy”. My college roommate assumed I was “used to cleaning”.

My mother did not want to teach me Spanish, because she feared I would suffer the discrimination she did when she moved to this country.

People in the DMV might be less racist, but in other parts of the country, we are all known as lazy, beaner wetbacks!   [/quote]

People in DC are much more racist than people in southern states like Alabama.  [/quote]

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