Quote (datdude377 @ Jul 24 2010 07:03pm)
idk who the fuck you are,
but tl:dr
bolded the part i did read, and from that small portion i only have a few things to say. also, hispanic is a box you check on applications... they use that word so they dont have to use 400 boxes for all the spanish speaking ethnicities
IM HALF PUERTO RICAN. im bi-racial, my parents are two different ethnicities. to claim solely one, and not the other would be disrespectful to my parents.
how are you going to tell me what i am, or am not. seriously?! thats a decision i make, and i make alone. i could choose to claim my pr side, or my other, but i claim both.ty for the giggles
i see you found my trend?The fact you're thinking that way just tells me you're an idiot. Puerto Rico is to Russia as Hispanic is to European. Russica is a country and Puerto Rico is pretty much something alike. Born citizens would be Russian as to Puerto Ricans. If you weren't born there you would be European as to Hispanic. Now if you lived in Russia you would be a Russian Citizen as to living in America you would be an American Citizen or a Puerto Rican Citizen but you would still be American assuming you were born American. YOU are a descent from an Ancestry, you were not born there. Therefor making use of the word Hispanic. You were right the word Hispanic is used on things like that. Its used to basically sum all the small islands up in one word. That way is someone came to fill it out and the form asked you what are you? If you were born American you would check Hispanic or Hispanic/American whatever is on the form. If you were born in Puerto Rico but your mother was Dominican you would check down Puerto Rican or Hispanic since it sums it all up in one word anyways that would make just as good of an answer in this case but if your mother was Chinese you would check Puerto Rican if you were born in Puerto Rico. So basically like I said you can't be half of something, you either are or you aren't and in this case you are not *Half Puerto Rican* you are Hispanic. If one of your parents is oriental of some sort you would be Oriental-Hispanic American. Or in that case just Hispanic would be the best thing to say if you ever heard Chinese or Japanese people talk some of the words are the same. So if you already know one of the spanish languages cause there is many types out there it would be easy for you to learn something Oriental over someone whos plain American with no real lineage. And one last thing it would not be disrespectful to claim/cling to one of your lineages since in this example you would be American it would not mean disrespect to any of your parents sides of your family. Or if you were born where one of your birth parents were born and the other is from another country it wouldn't be disrespectful to clain/cling to your birth place over your other parents making you have to say you're *half* of one thing and *half* of another. You and everyone else that goes around saying they're half Japanese half Puerto Rican or what ever else just makes you sound extremely retarded. *Oh my mother was born in Russia but my father is American and I was born in America so I guess I'm half Russian -insert retarded laugh here-* You weren't born in that country so you cannot call your self something a born citizen would call themselves unless you are living there now but born in America. You would get your citizenship changed from America to Russia making you Russian Citizen but born American but correct term would be *I'm American* if someone asked simply because you weren't born in the country.
Take the time and read this to educate your. self. I know my grammar is far from perfect but I try to make sense and learn like you should learn this. This isn't something you can always learn in school I guess since alot of idiots are going around claiming to be half this half that. So take advantage of this and I hope you took the time to appreciate my explanation to better educate you.