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BumRushDaShow

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17. The issue here is that those who are called "Hispanics"

Reply to atreides1 (Reply #15)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 09:02 AM

Oct 2018

are a myriad of different nationalities and ethnicities - some of which have been at-odds with each other for centuries. I.e., they are not a monolith. They merely share the same language.

And ironically, no one lumps the francophones like the Haitians, Senagalese, Algerians, Congolese, Guadeloupeans, and French Canadians of Quebec, all together as a monolith.

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