Why do Hispanics/Latinos in the US not recognise that they are as European & as a much a coloniser as any White American?

[Hagar88]

Like your last name being Cortez should make it pretty obvious as to your conquistador ancestors from Spain and Portugal.

[WindAtMyBack]

I've never heard anyone make that claim.

However, they are not necessarily European. They have more native blood than the US or Canada. There are people in S America who are considered to be the most pure blooded people in the world, and it is not European blood.

Having a name like Cortez doesn't mean much either. Look at the Philippines. Sir names of the people and cities are heavily Spanish. The name of the country itself is Spanish. Yet they only have a small amount of European blood.

[Hagar88]

They have more native blood maybe because in America there huge immigration from Europe in the late 1800s.
The Philippines didn't get 90% of their population wiped out by new diseases and pandemics theyd never encountered in over 10,000 years. Its why there were so few surving native Americans in say Mexico, that and the Mexicans hunted them right up to the late 1800s

[permanentem]

A lot of them are retarded. Latin Americans a primarily European colonists, but they were more heavily involved in the slave trade than the USA because tropical climates were more dependent on slave labor than temperate climates. Thus the largest Latin American populations are Whites, followed by freed Black slaves. Then you add in a dash of Asian migrants and surviving Native Americans that didn't parish to old world illness at the bottom of the rung.

[permanentem]

*are

[permanentem]

You have to understand Latin Americans that are doing well don't need to leave their country, cross into the USA illegally, and promote socialism... It's the low skilled, uneducated, impoverished ghetto slum dwellers that are looking to escape their miserable existence that run for the border and promote socialist propaganda. There are plenty of Latin Americans that come to the USA legally, are quiet wealthy, and are well educated. They aren't for all that socialist bullshit.

[permanentem]

So when a bunch of retarded criminal low lives from other countries who couldn't make it in their home country illegal jump the border, they're going to keep promoting the same gay socialist bullshit they wanted in their home country which got them kicked out and pushed to the margins of society.

[permanentem]

At the end of the day you have to get the illegals out and be selective about who you let in. There are good people in Latin America that would be good assets to the USA, you just have to be more diligent about who gets in.

[RandomGirl42]

Well, I'm not really sure but it said "Be the first girl to share an opinion
and earn 3 more Xper points!" 😊

[Chloe432]

Well their ancestry is a mix of "colonizer" and "colonized" and they identify different ways.

[Hagar88]

Yeah just like many white and black people especially in the southern US most Hispanics are European than native American.

[Sevenpointfive]

it depends on if your ancestors raped native americans. mine were so i can't really say i colonized my own ancestral land since that's not true. a Spanish colonizer ancestor raped my native American ancestor. and who knows what happened after that?

but i get that i'm the exception to the question. are there really no bikini pics? she locks them up tight!

[Lliam]

I'd say that most Latinos have some Native American blood. In other words, few are of pure Spanish or Portuguese lineage. Therefore, they are not as European as many North Americans.

[jshm2]

Because they are not, dumbass.

Not all of them have "European" links, and even of the ones that do, most are not White.

[Hagar88]

Most are white descendants of colonisers.

[Mike_Hum]

hilarious she didn't know where horses came from considering her face.

[In_Trance]

Because stuff like this really doesn't matter and frankly nobody gives a shit

[slatyb]

Yes but most have native ancestors.

[Hagar88]

Everyone has ancestors from somewhere else. Myself I've got irish/Scottish, Scandinavian, French, middle eastern, Italian, spainish in my DNA. Near i can figure its from the vikings, Norman's who would have been raiding Ireland and the British Isles and far away as America to Russia and greece. The normans who were fighting wars and conquering in spain, scilly, Italy, the holy land, france, England, Scotland, wales and Ireland.

[slatyb]

Most Mexicans and Latin Americans are descended from the aboriginal inhabitants, present before they were dispossessed and slaughtered by the Spanish, Portuguese, and English among others.

[Hagar88]

If they were slaughtered how are they descended from them?
What happened was Europeans turned up with smallpox, measles, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, malaria, bubonic plague, chickenpox, cholera, chickenpox, diphtheria, cholera, pertussis (whooping cough), scarlet fever, typhoid, leprosy, and tuberculosis which killed about 90-95% of all natives. The native Americans being separated from the rest of the eorld practically 12,000 years never encountered any of these and had no defenses.
Its like when the English landed in New England they thought God had set the land aside for them and they had a divine providence because there were basically arriving on vast areas of fertile farm land rich with timber, hunting and game. This land was unclaimed and there were no natives on. The native had been there 20 years before and had thriving farms but had come into contact with spainish explorers and french traders and had evidently wiped out the native population to almost nothing.

[slatyb]

There are multiple records of mass murders of native populations, and the dispossession was a crime against humanity.

[Hagar88]

Well most conquests are like that. Much like when the comanche wiped out neighbouring tribes and stole their land. Or what the aztecs did to their enemies sacrificing 20-80,000 per year to their Gods.
But no European mass murder could ever match the disease they brought. Like we panicked with covid but imagine we were hit with new pandemics all at once and there was zero defence and bodies were dropping everywhere in the street worse than the black death ever was in Europe killing 50% or Justin's plague killing 60%. Every European was a carrier of all that even if they were immune, a simple handshake or sneeze could be deadlier to a native tribe or village than 10,000 muskets.

[XXblack88]

I don't know maybe they're too prideful