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TM tiki mick Tiki Socialite SOCAL Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 4094	TM tiki mick Posted posted on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 7:27 AM I know this thread will be locked soon, but I have to say something quick before it closes. I hate assumptions. I have been subjected to them all my life. For example, my name is clearly ethnically Spanish (my real name, that is) but all my life people have assumed that I was mexican (nothing wrong with that) but the simple fact is a am 100% cuacasian, as much as any French or northern italian would be. I have no mestizo blood in me (indian/spanish mixture) and therefore am not Latino. People are confused about this. So is Charlie Sheen when he refers to himself as "latino". He is not Latino, he is Spanish, and there is a huge difference, both in the DNA and in the cultures. yes, there are other countries with people like us such as Uruguay where the demographic is 90% caucasian. But, I can understand when people don't take the time to understand, and just make stupid assumptions about me. I say that, because I also have committed the same mistakes. You see, I did not grow up with many black people. There were none at my school, and none in my neighborhood or close vicinity. I would only see them on TV or when I went to LA. Bot once I joined the military, I was basically in another world. Their world. I was in south carolina for basic training, where it seems everyone was black. I can clearly remember riding on a bus, being bored, and seeing some black guy with a walkman and a large cassette tape box with all his tapes in it. I struck up a conversation. "hey man, what are you listening to? Got any funkadelic, cameo, prince, slave, barkays?" The guy looks at me like I was an idiot and opens his cassette box and shows me his collection. Foreigner, cheap trick, foghat, Tom Petty........wow, what an asshat I felt like! So to see a name like "nazarian" (which is probably a caucasian/armernian name anyway, and assume this person is a middle easterner or otherwise not a loyal american just based on his name is kinda sad, you know? I thought we had grown out of this mentality by now?

I know this thread will be locked soon, but I have to say something quick before it closes. I hate assumptions. I have been subjected to them all my life. For example, my name is clearly ethnically Spanish (my real name, that is) but all my life people have assumed that I was mexican (nothing wrong with that) but the simple fact is a am 100% cuacasian, as much as any French or northern italian would be. I have no mestizo blood in me (indian/spanish mixture) and therefore am not Latino. People are confused about this. So is Charlie Sheen when he refers to himself as "latino". He is not Latino, he is Spanish, and there is a huge difference, both in the DNA and in the cultures. yes, there are other countries with people like us such as Uruguay where the demographic is 90% caucasian. But, I can understand when people don't take the time to understand, and just make stupid assumptions about me. I say that, because I also have committed the same mistakes. You see, I did not grow up with many black people. There were none at my school, and none in my neighborhood or close vicinity. I would only see them on TV or when I went to LA. Bot once I joined the military, I was basically in another world. Their world. I was in south carolina for basic training, where it seems everyone was black. I can clearly remember riding on a bus, being bored, and seeing some black guy with a walkman and a large cassette tape box with all his tapes in it. I struck up a conversation. "hey man, what are you listening to? Got any funkadelic, cameo, prince, slave, barkays?"
The guy looks at me like I was an idiot and opens his cassette box and shows me his collection. Foreigner, cheap trick, foghat, Tom Petty........wow, what an asshat I felt like!

So to see a name like "nazarian" (which is probably a caucasian/armernian name anyway, and assume this person is a middle easterner or otherwise not a loyal american just based on his name is kinda sad, you know? I thought we had grown out of this mentality by now?

Post #580624 by tiki mick on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 7:27 AM