<p>Hispanic means Mixed.</p>
<p>lol what do you want ppl to say mr. payne? Oh no! when whites aren't the majority anymore america is screwed!!! time to start a new country!!!! </p>
<p>nah, i think it'll lead to a society with less discrimination. It'll also mean a more diverse political scene because politicians won't be able to count on winning with only the white vote.</p>
<p>Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish for the win?</p>
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But they're mostly all hispanic looking or hispanic in nature. The mixes that you will see are betwen black/white, white/hispanic/ white/asian, and black/asian,hispanic, etc. All that are easily identifiable as different mixes. I know South American countries don't have ALOT of those mixes.
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<p>You're looking at race in purely an America-centric point of view. To Americans, all South Americans are "Hispanic", but in a country like Brazil, race means something completely different. For instance, it's possible for a family in Brazil to have both "White" and "Black" children, depending on the tone of one's skin colour. In America, White and Black are seen as inflexible "scientific" classifications; in Brazil, they are more akin to class standing, with possible upward mobility (a Black person can aspire to be White by being rich). </p>
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nah, i think it'll lead to a society with less discrimination. It'll also mean a more diverse political scene because politicians won't be able to count on winning with only the white vote.
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<p>I think that's being overly optimistic. People have always found means to discriminate against others. It can be argued that religion was essentially racism, as each tribe of people around the world saw themselves as righteous and chosen and everybody else as damned heathens. When science usurped religion, the concept of race was invented to continue the segregation and distrust.</p>
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White values are seen in the Usa and Britan
Black values are seen in Somalia, and the Sudan
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<p>Quite frankly, you're a moron using extremely selective "logic".</p>
<p>I think everyone on this thread is way over-optimistic on integration. As America currently is there is segregation by wealth. For instance rich white people can keep a majority-white world by buying a house in a rich white area, shopping at an upscale overpriced mall, etc. to basically remove minority presence from their lives.</p>
<p>For the forseeable future I imagine whites and asians will "price-out" hispanics and blacks from society. This is sad, but I bet it will be true.</p>
<p>There are white hispanics.</p>
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You're looking at race in purely an America-centric point of view. To Americans, all South Americans are "Hispanic", but in a country like Brazil, race means something completely different. For instance, it's possible for a family in Brazil to have both "White" and "Black" children, depending on the tone of one's skin colour. In America, White and Black are seen as inflexible "scientific" classifications; in Brazil, they are more akin to class standing, with possible upward mobility (a Black person can aspire to be White by being rich).
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That's true for the vast majority of the population. However, the elite in Brazil is very much European. Those families don't have "black" kids.</p>
<p>I would think that as the non-Asian minority population in America grows we will look more and more like Brazil in virtually all forms of demographics, highly oligarchical, etc.</p>
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<p>My point was that Brazilians look at race from a completely different perspective. If a few of those elite Brazilians intermarried with Afro-Brazilians, then they could have Black kids.</p>
<p>I think a lot of you guys are being to pessimistic. First off asians are very unlikely to be a part of whatever elite class forms because the more generations an asian family has in the US, the more poorly they seem to do (i base this more on speculation). And americans have a tendency to be self-righteous as long as they have one bottom group. First it was jews, then african american, now hispanics. I think that the bottom group will just keep changing. </p>
<p>And as long as programs that work to bring more diversity into the wealthiest class exist, that will prevent that white elitist class from emerging.</p>