You haven’t seen nothing yet.
Come to australia.

But, for some reason, people at various times, have felt offended when some part of their past heritage felt “forgotten” or trodden upon. Thus, groups of people have come together and assigned “heritage names” to themselves. Unfortunately, in attempting to end one form of racism, these groups have actually begun another form of racism.

The term African American, for example, tends to exclude Caucasians born in Africa, while assuming a national heritage on an American person who may not have any roots in Africa at all. Latino, tends to refer to Spanish speakers, although Latin derives directly from Rome, Italy.

And, as you say, Spanish refers to the peoples from Spain, though the Spanish language is spken in many different countries (and with different dialects).

It’s not just “white culture,” though. It is ALL the different cultures trying to retain their “differences.” The trouble with any epithet or group name is that there are always going to be members of that group who will get excluded.

Even the system of “bilingual education” is exclusive. Bilingual education almost always refers only to Spanish/ English education. The kids from Africa, China, Korea, Japan, Israel, Iran, Russia… these immigrant children come to our schools in a sink or swim situation. The system excludes them. Generally speaking, the sink or swim kids learn English faster than the bilingual ed. kids. I used to be a teacher and I had experience with these kids, so I know.

I suggest we do like Thomas Paine first suggested. Of course we’re all different. That’s what’s beautiful about our humanity. But let’s celebrate our commonalities, how we are the same. Starting with, we are all Americans.

It is a melting pot but maybe some do not regard it as such.

Even today, to be an American from the eyes of some people is quite different then it is to others. I even had someone tell me go back to where you came from, but what the hell, I am from New Jersey?

Some of these people that generally do this, always think they are right as well almost all the time, so at times it is even useless to even argue. I do not know what the fear is all about? Or possibly hatred? It’s just uncalled for.

I just seen it happen too much to others as well as myself and it is a tragic thing to even occur with laws around and the fact we are past the civil war. A lot of people will deny that this does not occur and it is just a tale people are telling, but the reality is it does occur to those that face it and actually have experienced it. Not just once, or twice, or three times, but many times growing up.

The best thing you can do is to teach your kids how to treat others as you would like to be treated, and hope your kids can pass the message amongst those that are neglected by this form of wisdom by their parents.

Like I come form a mixed ethnic family with many different cultures intermixed. When i see someone imitating indian people accent, chinese accent, saying “yo quireo taco bell” to a kid with hispanic ethnicity and god knows what else, it really irritates me, to think that people of those races, their kids can hear you make fun of their accent and yet they look at you and ask why? Why does it irritate others if someone has an accent or if they dress a certain way or if they look a different way, why does it irritate them, its like some people treat others like they are total aliens from another planet and what not, and the ones doing this act like they are the top and perfect and flawless and that they can never be wrong. It’s just ignorance my friend, ignorance.

A US Border Patrol Agent catched an illegal alien in the bushes right by the border fence. He pulls him out and says, “Sorry, man, you know the law, you’re going back across the border right away.”

The Mexican man begs him, “No, no! Senior, I must stay in el America! Porfavor!”

The agent thinks to himself, I’m going to make it hard for him, and says “OK, I’ll let you stay if you can use 3 English words in a sentence.”

The Mexican man of course agrees right away.

The agent tells him, “The three words are: green, pink and yellow. Now use them in one sentence.”

The Mexican man thinks really hard for about two minutes, then says, “Hmmm, OK. The phone, it went green, green, green… I pink it up, and said yellow?”

OIFUSMCVET: good answer bro, i was gonna say that but i tend to hide the pain of racism with humor