when I mention that I'm Hispanic to the
education system
and the military my race is already
defaulted as white
I'm sure you've heard one person or two
mention that they are either half Latino or
half Hispanic
so it raises a question can someone actually be half Latino and half Hispanic
or is it you or are you are not
so when you first became Editor-in-Chief
he said ima do something different
something bold
this is probably as bold as you could
possibly go - no more Peter Parker
now Miles Morales half Black, half Hispanic -
this is i mean a total change
it's bad enough that when people look at
my daughter the only see your little
African princess
you think she's Black not half Black - half Latina
that's not true
can you be Hispanic and Black at the
same time and of course you can be
not only because
so much of the population that came from
Spain
and Portugal to Latin America
had African roots
so when you look at the US Latinos
they're very diverse
when you look at Puerto Ricans and Cubans that's
where you gonna find
Afro-Cubans and Afro-Puerto Ricans
and that's where you find a mix but that's just
normal of
the Caribbean is this the expresses
itself also in the US
Spain has been a
crossroads of culture
with Jewish culture going in with
Arabic culture going in with African
culture going in...
and so
Spain is a real racial mixture
they don't have a place for Mestizos so basically you have to go back to
the history of the Southwest
and for a while they consider Mexicans
as Whites
...Caucasians
the only problem is that they
told you were Caucasian but they never
give your civil rights as a citizen or
your labor rights
[Patrice O'Neal] when you're eight years old and you're not speaking English,
you are Mexican - you feel Mexican
you identify yourself as Mexican.  At what point did you go,
"I'm now white guy" [Louis C.K.] well thing is I was White in Mexico
here's the thing that people don't
understand - Mexico is just like
America. It's made up of some black people
and some white people
and brown people the only difference is
they didn't genocide their Indians as well
as we did in the United States. [Anthony Cumia] Yeah - we got that job done
[Louis C.K.] yeah so that's why the face a
Mexican the most people - also Mexicans
you meet Mexicans that look like me all
the time but you don't know their
Mexican when you meet them
[Narrator] most Hispanics and Latinos will self
identify themselves by their ethnicity
instead of the race
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez of Cuba is the first Hispanic
and first Black person to go into space
Franklin Chang Diaz is a third Latino to go into space and he is also Asian descent
overall Hispanic and Latino are a mixture of every race
think half-and-half you have to think
of hybridity there's a lot of hybridity
there many misunderstandings of Hispanics and Latinos it's either you or you're not
unfortunately they don't come in fractions
since they do take in both nationalities
and races, but to my discovery there is
actually difference between Hispanics
and Latinos
Hispanic and a Latino.  Ok... a Hispanic
I believe their origin maybe from Mexico or those Central American countries where as a
Latino come from most southern
American continents and countries
I don't think there is a difference
That's a really good question
One has a green card and the other doesn't
Hispanic would be like race.  Where as Latino would be a culture.
yeah
Hispanics usually are American and I think the other is Mexico
Usually it's understood that Latinos a broader category
that includes Hispanic
or if that's true or to the extent which that is true or defensible
you then can't then be Hispanic and not Latino
You see you can be Latino and not be Hispanic.
you see if you say you're Hispanic then to an extent then you are also limiting yourself
to only the tradition and written culture in
Spanish
and if you say Latino then you also
verify with Brazil
remember that Latin means those areas
that were conquered by the Roman Empire
ok leaving Latin
as the language base
[Narrator] so technically, someone of a French decent
or Italian descent can be Latino
yeah oh yeah... yeah definitely unquestionably so
in the late ancient Roman Empire
the province's Hispania is historically
recognized of where the descendants of
Hispanics originally came from
if you say the word Latino you
automatically think a person of a
Spanish background; the reality is
Latino is a Spanish word for Latin or
people of Latin
the people of Latin are the descendants of the late Roman Empire
although Latin had an influence throughout the Roman Empire
many provinces still do not use Latin as
their primary language
when the empire had finally ended the
daughter languages of Latin merged
these daughter languages are known today as
Portuguese, Spanish,
French, Italian, and Romanian
though the term Hispanic and Latino will
be changed within Latin America
and the United States
we talk about
Latin America we use Latino
to refer to all those areas in Latin
America
that were conquered by - and
colonized by
people of Latin origin; that is French,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese - origin
but when you say Latino then all of a sudden you take into account
the wars of independence in Latin America
and at that time there was a rejection
of Spain
and there was a link to France
and France introduced this concept of Latino
within the United States we use Hispanic
and Latino
interchangeably to define someone of a
Spanish background
I'm Danny Jimenez, JMC 330
