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mmarollo t1_iresdm3 wrote

Reply to comment by Individual_Ad2579 in [OC] The GDP of US Latinos is greater than Brazil’s and Mexico’s combined. by latinometrics

Most Latino people in America are not immigrants. They were born here.

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TriFolk t1_ireubn7 wrote

I’d like to see a statistic for this. Mexicans and South Americans have been migrating consistently for 50+ years

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WolfShort7481 t1_irev7eb wrote

…and having lots of babies because Catholicism says birth control is bad. Those babies are US citizens. Two parents, 3 babies. Back that up to 50 years ago and you’re talking grand babies and great grand babies.

Edit to clarify intent: am 4th gen US born hispanic, great-great grandparents arrived in 1898, great-grandpa born in US in 1902. So on and so forth.

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camaradafrank t1_irk4vr0 wrote

How can they be Latinos if they were born in the US? Are you literally being racist?

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Smooth-Disk-3656 t1_irk8nku wrote

There’s a government categorization by ethnicity used by the us government agencies which usually consists of white (mostly European), African American, Native American and Hispanics. You can be a latino even if your grandparents came from Mexico half century ago

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camaradafrank t1_irkac2x wrote

Latim and Hispanics are not the same things, still racist.

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Smooth-Disk-3656 t1_irmk51s wrote

You can cry and be offended by that’s the official categorization done by the us federal agencies, which is replicated at state/city levels

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camaradafrank t1_irmrude wrote

So you are officially racist, not a shock to anyone with a bit of self determination . USA laws do not rule the entire American continent, this term was conjured in the US, this was never a convention between countries of South America and Central America. You might think that the USA’s influence is omnipotent, but it is not.

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