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ive heard dominicans say "im not black..i just look black" while having braids in their hair and eumlating the style of black americans and looking like just like 1.....theyll swear up and down they dont have any african hertiage..eventhough its obvious they do..have u had this experience with afro-dominicans cubans ricans etc?
I've had this experience with nealry one representative from most central and South American Countries except Cuba. Even met Brazilians and Blacks from Portugal say the same things.
Spaniards launched a pretty successful brainwashing program in their respective sphere of influence. While the British and French to a certain extent let it be known that you were Black and they are White, the Spanish basically fooled people into accepting a National Identity over a Racial/ethnic ID.
I went to a school that was 48% Black and 47% Hispanic and they use to confuse many of us. My good friend who was Dominican was darker than I am and he was one that accepted his Black role but others would sit almost in tears trying to justify their Hispanic-ness to no avail.
It is crazy when you think about it.....how a people can face racial discrimination in their own nations yet pretend that the problem does not exist. If this was a spanish speaking message board I wonder what the level of active participation would be?
Say it LOUD! "I\'M BLACK and I\'M PROUD!"
It illustrates again the confusion between ethnicity and race. I know so many black hispanics (including family members) who look straight out of West Africa who don't call themselves black because of their Hispanic ethnicity.. You are correct in calling it brainwashing. You also have the contentious (see several threads here) issue of caribbean hispanics being thoroughly mixed.
I find it particularly bad with Dominicans, but it is true of all the Spanish Caribbean/Central American countries. It depends on where you go in Puerto Rico,but some places like Loizaare fiercely Afrocentric.
I do go to spanish speaking boards and I reiterate that it is not popular to call oneself an Afro-latina although my african heritage is phenotypically clear.
However, I can say there is more defensiveness because culturally, they feel alienated from African Americans as well. The alienation goes both ways and have been frozen out by people when I speak spanish.
As far as "the most ignorant in the world?" let's try the most ignorant statement for a topic.
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