Question for Spanish and Portuguese GLPers:
Why do many of your people who colonized and immigrated to the Americas not consider themselves white? Why do they consider themselves to be 'Oppressed' minorities?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26915656 dunno
I'm part portuguese, always considered myself white and never took advantage of any programs for "hispanics" because I never thought I was one
but my parents were university grads and professionals, we never thought of ourselves as needy. I went to good schools here, have no accent, dress professionally, want the same things everyone else wants and am willing to work for them
I guess it's a question of how and where you're raised.
In my house it would have been really embarassing to think of yourself as a sub group who needed government help...but in other communities that kind of thinking was encouraged...
one problem I did run into was that even though I never thought of myself as anything but 100% mainstream american, I would run into americans who made a point of identifying me as different, as a minority and latin...and they wouldn't let it go even when I told them that isn't who I was
in that case, the problem is with some Americans who have a nationality issue, not with me
