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Originally posted by seer View PostYes, I never knew this until I had Mexican neighbors. They consider themselves Europeans, not to be confused with the "natives" of South America who they consider Latino.
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Originally posted by seer View PostI think it revolves around the immigration issue and public assistance.
Republicans allowed it to become an immense wedge issue and have probably lost the generation of Mexican-Americans that W. Bush was competitive for (40%)."Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
Hear my cry, hear my shout,
Save me, save me"
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Originally posted by Littlejoe View PostAs a quick aside...I have a fairly close Hispanic friend who once told me that all the Mexicans that he knew did NOT like being called Latino's. Anyone else ever heard that?Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI always understood "Hispanic" to include all Spanish speaking peoples, Spain, Central, Middle, South Americans, Cubans, etc. and "Latino/Latina" to be people from Latin America. When I lived in Texas, the Mexicans would call themselves "Chicano/Chicana"
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostYeah, one of our missionary candidates was from Mexico, but she preferred to be called an Indian, because she was Mosquito (Miskito / Mosquitia) Indian.
Interestingly, we found out that her tuition for the ENTIRE YEAR at Rio Grande Bible School was only like $450 a year, so our little Church agreed to pay her way through college. On Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the school would shut down for the holidays, it was WAY TOO FAR for her to go all they way back home, so we would drive down to the valley and bring her home with us.
Side story -- one night, she and two of her college friends were sitting in my living room (they stayed with us all through Christmas / New Year) and we were talking - I speak a little TexMex, and at the time, Araceli spoke very little English.
She had a theological question she wanted to discuss, and for the next TWO HOURS, we sat and had a conversation where she understood everything I said, and I understood everything she said. My wife was there, and told me after the fact, that she really couldn't understand what Celi was saying, but she could tell that I was totally getting it.
It was absolutely amazing!
Anyway, another case of me disliking Mexican immigrants, I guess."What has the Church gained if it is popular, but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?" - A.W. Tozer
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI always understood "Hispanic" to include all Spanish speaking peoples, Spain, Central, Middle, South Americans, Cubans, etc. and "Latino/Latina" to be people from Latin America. When I lived in Texas, the Mexicans would call themselves "Chicano/Chicana"The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Littlejoe View PostAnd possibly an valid use of "Tongues/hearing"?
It's my own personal opinion that at Pentecost, this is what was happening - everybody heard in their own language.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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I don't think the vast majority of people actually "hate" others of anyone skin color, I DO think that those that legitimately do hate others are probably the loudest and most obnoxious voices. I think that's what makes the headlinesA happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostIIRC "Chicano" specifically means someone from Mexico although it appears to have different meanings in different areas.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostYeah they wanted to be known as Mexican or Chicano. This was in El Paso back in the mid-70s in my middle school.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostYeah, I remember as a kid, some preferred to be called "Chicano", (remember Chico and the Man?), but one time I used that term, and a Mexican got highly offended and asked if I wanted to fight.
Chicanx and Xicanx are things, btw."Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
Hear my cry, hear my shout,
Save me, save me"
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