Are Latinos self-centered or in denial/uninformed about civil rights?
457526
yep your question sure shows that you probably are thirteen! I am not understanding the real question.. are you trying to find out how many people share your narrow minded point of view??? that would be my guess!
179897
It didn't help at all. Think about it, Mexicans are marching in American streets chanting in Spanish, draping themselves in the Mexican flag, and dragging and stomping the American flag(yes, they stomped on the American flag, I saw footage of it from one of the protests). This is supposed to gather support from Americans. It solidified my postion against illegals. \n\nP.S. A Latino is one of Latin American decent or related to Spain.
793822
I am very sorry for that. It really is terrible how people discriminate against ANY culture just because they are like another. ANYWAY they shouldn't discriminate against the first one in the first place! I live in a city with a high Latino population, and everytime anyone says "Mexican" I feel that I need to correct them. It has gotten me into some sticky situations, but I've also made some friends through it. I am a Spanish student and it disgusts me to see how people can just pretend that because they speak Spanish they must be bad. It makes me SICK. I lived in Spain for a while to practice my Spanish and even though I was American *most* (not all, just most) of the people there could still respect me. And when I speak to the Latinos in my city they can still respect me even though I am not the same race as them. And it's amazing, it's not even just latinos either. It is anyone who speaks Spanish. My host family sent their daughter here and everyone was rude to her simply because she spoke with a Spanish accent.\n\nOne last rant and then I am done.\n\nSo my friend and I did an experiment. Even if we are AMERICAN and we speak in Spanish, will they do the same thing? The answer is yes. We went downtown and spoke in Spanish to each other for the day. If someone spoke to us we answered in English, with our American accents, and we were still treated the same way. So my conclusion is that it isn't just the people themselves that are Latino or Hispanic that are discriminated against, but the whole Spanish language.\n\nThis didn't really answer your question....sorry....
636353
That rings true in all Latin America.You should see when I go back home to Panama.My own family are lined up,demanding a handout.If I say something like I couldn't afford this or that,they look at me as if I had 2 heads or something.The only thing they keep repeating,which I find very annoying is,"En los EEUU se gana mas." Which is true but everything is way more expensive here also.The next time you go to buy a rebozo,act Mexican so they won't rip you off. I've never experienced racism in Mexico or any other Latin American country,maybe I've been lucky. Racism does exist but not half as bad as in the USA.
729880
I find it funny and sad how many Latin Americans are obsessed with being white and denying any indigenous or black blood.  It is a self hatred that they are in denial about.  So sad.
687179
I'm guessing it may be a combination of ignorance, arrogance and a sense of entitlement.  When pressed, many of the illegals and their supporters openly admit that they consider the Southwestern US to be "occupied" territory, taken from Mexico.  This is simply a symptom of that view.
870002
""About 10% of the Asian and Pacific-Islander population in the USA is undocumented, compared with 19% of the Latino population, he says."".\n\nWOW THE ABOVE QUOTE IS INTERESTING.  10% IS STILL A LARGE AMOUNT AND NOT MUCH SMALLER THAN THE ILLEGAL LATINO POPULATION.  BUT HEARING IT FROM THE BIGOTS LIKE PAT BUCHANAN AND YAHOO USERS, ALL ILLEGALS ARE LATINOS.
311185
A simple statistical analysis of the answers to a random sampling of your questions regarding 'Mexicans/immigration' yielded the following results:\n\nThose who agree with PANCHA:\n19%\n\nThose with neutral viewpoints:\n11%\n\nThose who disagree with PANCHA:\n70%\n\nI think it's safe to conclude that most people, at least those who post on YA, disagree with where you stand on this topic.  Even IF you were able to persuade the 11% neutral vote to agree with you, you would still be outnumbered by over 2-to-1.  What does this mean:  It means:\n\n...No one is buying into your repetitive rhetoric!...\n\nI admire your 'pluck', and I mean that sincerely, but at this point any question you pose with regard to this issue is just an exercise in futility; in other words,... it's a waste of your time.  \n\nSo, please, take your own advice, and GET A LIFE.
1059847
This kind of hits home for me because during this immigration debate I learned that the Mayor of my City (Los Angeles)  was in MEChA during college.  Apparently he refused to distance himself from it during questions in his initial campaign.  At a recent alumni event for UCLA he finally was pinned down and said he 'of course' did not support 'all' of its principles.  However, I do now think about that.\n\nGranted we all do stupid things when we are young, but I was never drawn to the KKK, and his having been in MEChA bothers me. Their slogan is 'For the Mexican race, everything, for those not of the Mexican race, nothing.'\n\nIf they think they will get an independent state, they are just stupid, though, because they will never control the military, and the US made it very clear in the 1860's that succession is not permissible.  \n\nHowever, demographic representation is a totally different thing.
337808
I'm a black Latina,I am also 1/4 Mexican so I look at these people as fellow human beings and fellow Latinos. I will not turn my back on them whether legal,illegal,etc. I also deal with(all nationalities) people from all walks of life on a daily basis and I know the poverty and conditions they experienced in the old country.Just think 50 years ago people used to feel the same way about us blacks,people may say the situations are not similar,but they are.
1108291
it is because most of them had never been through the same discrimination which Latinos and blacks are victims of TODAY , so it is hard to understand sometimes what they think never could happen to them . it is today when blacks and Latinos are more likely to be stop in a traffic violation , it is today when  the abuses occur . \n\ni think that we as human beings should be more compassionate to one another and should remember that even if blacks or other races are not as victimized today as yesterday they are still victims of the same today . \n\nit is also because they know that if they give the rights to Latinos which they deserve for being humans they would have a voice and the abuses to the minorities would have to be stop which is what they are really afraid of , they seem to like having people whit out rights .
210097
Life is what you make it to be.  There are quite a few well to do Hispanics in my neighborhood who worked for what they wanted.  It may be a struggle but you will eventually get just strive hard for it.  And to the dumb A S S above me with the IGNORANT response.  Check your facts sweetheart....this land was STOLEN from mostly Hispanics and Native Americans and as a Black American I found your answer to be offensive.  Why don't you take your A S S back to where you came from before you stole this land and claimed it as your own!!!!!!!!!!!
639781
I wish I knew. It amazes me how these people want the same rights as Americans, but refuse to learn the most basic skill required in America. I mean, there are teachers being fired in Florida for not speaking Spanish. How screwed up is that?
87282
I'm not Mexican, but a friend of mine's family goes back in this country to 17th-Century New Mexico.  One of her uncles, an academic and activist, was involved in the social consciousness movement of Mexican-Americans in the 1960s - and actually helped coin the term Chicano.\n\nSo, no problemo.
565726
No, not really.\nI feel like they think we are all ignorant and can be kept confused by alot of seperate issues.
375508
Estan pendejos todos estos racistas. They think they can over power minorities. By the way, good answer to the previous question... donde les rallaste la mama. Unity is the only way and too bad for them when hispanics turn the majority into a minority.
396321
No, they just play the race card because the socialist wing of the latino movement is trying to manipulate the common American hispanic into allowing citizenship for illegal aliens.  If you'd asked most American hispanics about their view of illegal aliens prior to this fracas, I bet most would've been in favor of sending the illegals back home.  But now that the marxist/socialists haven gotten a hold of the issue they've confused the topic with their rhetoric.  \n\nThe goal of these socialists is the delude the average all-American hispanic into letting the 10 million illegals get citizenship, and then the socialists bank at the election box on the imported socialism from Mexico.  The typical Mexican-American is not pro-socialist, and I don't think they realize they're being manipulated.\n\nAnd if you don't think they are socialist, just do some checking into the leaders' backgrounds.