What ethnic background is James Caviezel(Catch)?
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Dr_Dmitri-Yuriev — 20 years ago(October 11, 2005 08:45 AM)
Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile all have mainly white populations.
CIA WORLD FACT BOOK SITE:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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thedingoes8mybaby — 20 years ago(October 11, 2005 07:42 PM)
:::rolls eyes because I'm supposed to click the link of the CIA World Fact Book:::
Yes, because if there's anyone who understands and appreciates global culture, it's the damn CIA!
yes, there are communities of white people in those places, because Europeans have been flocking to these areas in recent years.
There are alot of black people in Britain. Britain has a rather large black population. Is that to say that the average British person or the traditional British person is black? Of course not.
Hispanics are people of color, for the most part. They have indigenous/African/Spanish blood. So, most of them are NOT WHITE. Sorry. I'm not going to count the Europeans that moved there recently as traditional Hispanicsthese people are still, for the most part, considered European. -
Dr_Dmitri-Yuriev — 20 years ago(October 12, 2005 06:39 PM)
have you been to every one of those countries? Why would indigenous be the main population when many of them died when the Spaniards came (they brought diseases). Most Latin American countries are dominated by mestizos (half Spanish and indigenous). Also, not all mestizos are dark skinned.
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thedingoes8mybaby — 20 years ago(October 12, 2005 07:14 PM)
I didn't say indigenous were the main population, I said the main population are descendents of indigenous, African, and Spanish blood. Some to a more or less degree; but since two out of three of those groups are non-white, and even Spaniards are questionable, then I think it's safe to say that most Hispanics are non-white. And, no, I'm not counting the white Europeans that have recently settled in Latin America.
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evmmnval — 20 years ago(December 08, 2005 02:13 PM)
If by "recently" you mean "in the last 500 years," then you're right.
Also, in that scene where J Lo and Caviezel are bathing in a river you can see such a contrast between J Lo's rather light complexion and Caviezel's. I couldn't help it and thought: if someone didn't know their names, they'd swear HE is the "ethnic." -
thedingoes8mybaby — 20 years ago(March 18, 2006 04:46 PM)
Stereotyping?
For me to say the fact that the three main ethnicities and cultures that MAKE HISPANIC cultures are indiginous, African, and Spanish is incorrect? To say that two of those groups are not of European ancestry and therefore NON-WHITE is wrong? No, neither of those things are incorrect. So please tell me where I have gone outside of facts and made up a stereotype?
And "Asian" is not a race. Asia is a place. If I'm black and was born in Asia, I would be Asian. In America, we tend to call people of traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. heritage "Asian". In Europe, they call Indians, Russian, etc. "Asian". It's all in Asia, isn't it?
How we identify and label people depend on where we are from and how our society and culture label those people. You can say that in Miami, the Cubans there are considered 'white' because they hold some political and economic power. But are they European-looking for the most part? No. Fifty years ago, someone would laugh at u in ur face if u tried to call a Semetic-Jew 'white'.
Keeping that in mind, u see how I have little patience for someone trying to tell me to look at J.Lo's skin complexion versus someone elses. So what? Look at Michael Jackson. He's as white as paper, and, if he didn't have all his facial features re-done, he'd still look like a really white BLACK PERSON. -
GattiPL — 19 years ago(May 16, 2006 09:37 PM)
thedingoes8mybaby do some research before you speak, you have no idea what you're talking about.
how are spaniards questionably white? They are european caucasians there is no question, its a fact. It sounds like you think anybody with tanned skin is a non-white
Nobody calls Russians Asian lmao at that nonsense, they're european and the majority of the population is in Europe. The parts that are in Asia are mostly Siberia and other very sparsely populated areas aka nobody lives there
Those countries in South America that were listed as having a majority white population are right. LOL @ you thinking this is recent immigrants, the average Argentinian has bin white for 500 years and are of mostly Italian descent, they settled the area 500 years ago not 50, theres a big difference. I wouldnt call that recent. Most of the indiginous people were killed off during that time, and people who have alot of indiginous blood are still the subject of racism there. Go tell one of those Argentianians they're non-whites and see where that gets you lol
Theres a HUGE difference between Argentinians and say Puerto Ricans, you cant class all Hispanics together as "non-whites" because there ARE white hispanics. And that IS stereotyping. -
Fisant911 — 19 years ago(June 07, 2006 08:06 AM)
you are wrong hispanic is a race. Is a race of mix pertaining to white europeans , black african americans and indigenous tainos incans, aztecs, mayas decendents.what hispanic is is a race of a mixture a mix can vary in many ways so you can get blonde blue eyed puerto ricans or black as tar puerto ricans.What they mean by hispanic race is that you cant just consider their color while black people are made from the formula of black + black and white people are made from white + white hispanics being a black hispanic or a white hispanic can be made by
blacK+white+indian or any combination of the three like you have in mexico the indigenous mexicans that are only mixed with the white spaniards but lower in costa rica you have indigenous mixed with only black or white mixed with indigenous etc.. is all considred hispanic you cant go by a persons skin color only.If you ask any hispanic and look at their family you will see that they all I MEAN ALL HISPANICS have ancestors which are mixes there is not true white+white hispanic they live in spain and are white in consideration but lately spain and the lower americas have been conneced for such a long time that span is almost as hispanic as cuba etc..is the same in south africa there are many places where the race is not longer just blacks or whites is a mix most likely mulato since they arent full black or full white.
It all comes down to genetics im half black half white dominican my mothers ancestors are from spain my fathers come from africa etc.. If you trace it back
but i dont consider myself black because my skin is dark i know i have a very white side and a very black sides.My brother and his wife are both mixed black and white and they have to dark skinned kids and 2 light skinned people ask "them is that your son or the milkmans son." but in reality they both know that that is part of their white side because they both have white in them.
I tried to explain what hispanic as a race is race isnt about skin color is about ancestry and the mixture of people where you take an oriental and mix them with black you get people that populate saudi arabia india etc. You mix spanish whites with asians and blacks and get phillipinos which look like a chineese version of hispanics.same olive skin tones 1/3 black, 1/3 white 1/3 oriental.
Mix indian and oriental you get people who live in thailand and indonesia,cambodia , malaysa etc..
we arent just white and black or oriental people we are mixes of many different combinations.To just label one person whit eor black depending ont heir skin color is both ignorant and in a way shames the fact that the race was created by many different cultures and people.
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