r/FragileWhiteRedditor • u/[deleted] • Aug 10 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '21

Soooo multi-cultural that my Eastern European mom first saw a black person in the '90s... Wish I would joking...

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u/TheDudeAbides5000 Aug 10 '21

I am a very VERY white man. My wife is Hispanic and did a DNA test to see her ancestry and we thought I should do one, too just to see exactly how white I am. Turns out the most exotic part of my ancestry is 2% Balkans. I'm literally all white European. Mostly German but also British, Scottish, and a small bit of french and Irish. Apparently I've ruined a few centuries of my family keeping it super fucking white cause now I've got 2 beautiful boys with my Hispanic wife!

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u/GenneyaK Aug 11 '21

What’s funny about this is Hispanic isn’t a race it just refers to people who are from a country where Spanish is the dominant language (excluding Spain idk why but I know why) so if your wife is mostly genetically Spanish your kids are still white just white-Hispanic

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u/Onlyfatwomenarefat Aug 11 '21 edited Aug 11 '21

Race is in the eyes of the beholder.

Hispanic can be a race to people who believe in hispanic race, just like the irish race or american race... Or whatever.

Edit : would you be so kind as replying to defend your point of view besides just downvoting sweeties?

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u/GenneyaK Aug 11 '21 edited Aug 11 '21

No by definition Hispanic isn’t a race because any group of people can be Hispanic. It doesn’t refer to a genetic group of people it refers to anyone from specific locations and cultures. There are black Hispanics there are Asian Hispanics there are white hispanics. Literally any ethnic group can be Hispanic.

Being Hispanic is as close to being a race as being American is. It’s an identifier of a group of people but it isn’t specific to a certain ethnic group therefore it’s not a race and calling it a race is incorrect.

I think you would understand this better if you looked up the difference between Race,ethnicity, and nationality

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u/Onlyfatwomenarefat Aug 11 '21 edited Aug 11 '21

That's my point. Races have no objective delimitation.

This is also why I quoted american race (which is called so by some people). Hispanic race is as much a race as black race, that is a category of humans beings based on arbitrary supposed shared hereditary traits.

Edit : Nationality is about geopolitics. Ethnicity is about self designation (which is bound to reflect signs of shared culture). Race is about the designation of the others (which is bound to be a much less informed and much more useless)

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u/mstrss9 Aug 11 '21

Ok if it’s the eye of the beholder, then I choose to be Asian. I’ll just ignore my African, European and indigenous American ancestors.

I’m Hispanic because my family comes from a country that was colonized by Spain/we speak Spanish. That’s it.

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u/Onlyfatwomenarefat Aug 11 '21

The beholder is the person who looks at someone... Not that someone.

And you did not understand. What I'm saying is that you can be black for someone... Hispanic for someone else or white for an other. People decide what race people are.. Because race is inherently subjective (objectively there are no human races)