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In reply to the discussion: I am Latina but pass as White [View all]monicaangela
(1,508 posts)the term comes from the fact that Cristobal Colombo was supposed to be the person who discovered America. I think it is easy for some then to label every human being that existed in the southern part of America Hispanic or Latino(a) to more or less remove their rich heritage and put them beneath the heritage of their conqueror. In the U.S. Native Americans are very close to what many of their brothers and sisters to the south are, but they are not called Latino or Latina. For me this is just generalizing, and adapting words to give entire nations over to what some consider the person who discovered those nations...the person who committed genocide, who treated the people who were there before he came as less than human, exploited and took advantage of them and then after raping, robbing, and pillaging their nations, somehow came out of it smelling like a rose and decidedly IMHO of course became the father of their nations, as if every human being in our southern hemisphere thereafter had their blood infused with the blood of their Spanish conqueror.