July 21 2011
Charisma Carpenter: "You need to get it out that I'm a proud Latina!".
She also says that she will be a bridesmaid at Julie Benz's wedding.
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cronopiogal | July 21, 15:20 CET
Charisma Carpenter is 40!?!?
Ashley | July 21, 15:51 CET
fortunateizzi | July 21, 15:51 CET
cronopiogal | July 21, 15:54 CET
madmolly | July 21, 16:24 CET
[ edited by tjbw on 2011-10-13 18:23 ]
tjbw | July 21, 16:49 CET
Matt7325 | July 22, 05:37 CET
I'm a bewildered Brit when it comes to US ethnicities. Is it supposed to be a bad thing to be a Latina?
Gill | July 22, 09:46 CET
Invisible Green | July 22, 10:13 CET
And more:
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/hispanic-latino-or-what/
And from Wiki: Hispanic and Latino Americans are Americans with origins in the Hispanic countries of Latin America or in Spain, and in general all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
Does it really matter, though? I'm proud that my ancestors came from Ireland, but that was several generations ago, so I can't technically claim to be Irish. I am an American of Irish descent. (Although while I will still say "I'm Irish" when the discussion comes up, it's only my father's side. On my mother's is...French, German, Prussian, I think possibly a smidge of Italian...)
If you were born in this country, you are an American. Even if your parents literally just got off the boat from another country. You may be of Latin, Spanish or Japanese descent, but first and foremost you are American.
I'm not saying don't have pride in your ethnic background. But, as I said years ago when someone came to my college to talk about political correctness: "If we all took the time to introduce ourselves by every little detail, we'd never get anywhere." Because I'm a vertically challenged, sight-limited, mammary under-endowed, low-poundage....ya see what I'm getting at here??
ShadowQuest | July 22, 11:28 CET
Here everybody is just Brazilian.
You can have different skins tones but the only other designation someone can have is being called "japonęs" (Japanese) if has any asian feature or gringo, if is naturalized (Process wich requires a person to live here for a week, speaks a dozen of dirty words and choose a Football team :) .
Brasilian Chaos Man | July 22, 12:43 CET
As for the confusion between Latina and Hispanic, I admittedly was fuzzy on the nuances but assume it could have been a branding thing to tie into the site's calling, regardless if she herself was actually ignorant or not. To some extent it's like synonyms for the less aware but not exactly as offensive as lumping a handful of Asian countries as "oriental"? (Is that remotely an accurate analogy?)
It does seem like she wants to at least make it clear to this demographic she's a part of it.
orangewaxlion | July 22, 17:54 CET
menomegirl | July 22, 19:07 CET
I may be partly ethnically "Spanish"* too for instance because around 15,000 years ago the (current) Basque region of Spain was an ice-age refuge from which some of the people now living on the western edges of north western Europe (who we know today as Celts - the Bretons, Cornish, Welsh, Scots, Irish etc.) spread out. And obviously we're all ethnically African eventually.
(I always thought "Hispanic" meant, basically, "Spanish speaking" whereas "Latina/o" meant "from Latin America" - which can mean a lot of things ethnically speaking - so, hey, early on a Saturday morning and i've already learned something, now I can just kick back for the rest of the weekend ;)
* quotes cos of the historical remoteness from what we call Spain today and the Spanish/Basque distinction, which i'm so not getting into.
Saje | July 23, 00:22 CET
DaddyCatALSO | July 23, 08:30 CET
Invisible Green | July 23, 10:37 CET
Menomegirl: Strictly speaking (which means I don't know how relevant this is to how "Loozianans" really use the terms) Cajuns came by way of the old Acadian colony in Canada, Creoles came right off the boat from Europe.)
DaddyCatALSO | July 23, 11:48 CET
[ edited by menomegirl on 2011-07-24 05:31 ]
menomegirl | July 23, 20:30 CET