Quote Originally Posted by fasterspider
The South Americans and Mexicans that I know would probably beat your ass for calling them Latino or Hispanic because they are neither.
My best friend in the world besides my wife is Edgar from Guatamala and speaks Spanish fluently but is not Hispanic at all, he is Guatamalan.
A Hispanic person is a person from Spain and Latin is a dead language that was used by the Catholic church to oppress people.
The words Hispanic and Latino are insults to the Spanish speaking people I know that are proud of their true heritage.
When the Spaniards got here 500 years ago, they raped and pillaged, murdered and infested the native peoples with new deadly diseases along with wiping out whole new to them races of peoples lifestyle and making them Christains.
Columbians are not Hispanics either, they are Columbians that just so happen to speak Spanish because of an invasion 500 years ago by a bunch of greedy oppressive Christian fanatics.
lol thanks for the ColOmbian history lesson. at least you tried but too bad you are terribly wrong.
Colombians, like Puerto Ricans and Domincans, have an uneven mix of black, native and white(spanish) features.
Unlike mexicans and central americans or peru, bolivia, ecuador where you see dominant "native" features. If I had to guess it's because of the vast mayan and Incan(and MANY other)civilizations. But it's all relative because everyone is so different.

Your friends wouldn't "beat my ass" either(that's for sure lol), because I wouldn't call them "hispanics". I used the word "hispanic" because I was typing in English and it's how the U.S. classifies anyone that speaks spanish. Some central american countries get offended at calling them "mexican" too, most likely your "Guatalamalan" friend. But that's just misplaced pride.

I rather not make this an issue because it's stupid to argue my culture against someone that's talking about shit they heard.

The reply was reffered towards me and let me tell you....
I don't know what your intention was but all you accomplished was negative.
you come off kind of edgy and I don't appreciate it. besides, half the shit you said is "off".
so before you coment on someones culture, be sure of what comes out of your mouth, you might offend someone.