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Just passing on what I read a long time ago

Kind of makes sense since "Hispanic" references spanish. Latino references all of Latin America. Whatever.

I found the Expanse post you made interesting when he described race in that show. Race had evolved into earthers, martians and belters, regardless of traditional racial descriptions. Interesting point on how Americans see race: Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc are seen as the asian/oriental race, but they see themselves as different races. Anyone white is the white race, but in Europe many view southern and eastern europeans as diffent races than northern europeans. Middle Eastern people are looked at as the same but Arabs and Persians feel very differently. Blacks in Africa have deep and extreme hostility toward people from different tribal backgrounds. Not really sure how Latin Americans view one another overall, but to most Americans they are all the same south of the Rio Grande. I think these simplistic racial categories are a combination of America's melting pot background and basic ignorance of the rest of the world.

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