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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan [list=1][*]I heard on the radio yesterday afternoon that whites are no longer the majority in Texas. First time since 1800s that this has happened. The change in demographics was primarily Hispanic. I called my mother to tell her that her gringa reign has come to an end (though to be fair, she was imported to the state by my Hispanic dad and she’s been outnumbered 5-1 in the family since my youngest sister was born). I knew if we waited long enough, the pendulum would start to swing back. I’d give it another twenty years, and we’ll be back on top of everyone else in the state.
[*]This got me to thinking about people like me whose parents aren’t of the same ethnicity. When I do think about it, I self-identify as Hispanic, though I will point out that my mom is of non-Hispanic Polish-Italian ancestry whenever the subject comes up. A lot of it has to do with how I grew up. I didn’t speak English until I was three, we lived closer to our dad’s family than our mom’s family, and my dad was always instilling a sense of Hispanic pride in us when we were kids. Anyone else self-identify with one parent’s ethnicity over the other?
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Interesting. I am Hispanic (father only) and Jewish (both parents); however, I don't think I identified more with one than the other. When I was elementary-school age, we lived nearer my maternal grandparents, and I was very close with them. In middle school, we moved nearer my paternal grandparents, and my maternal grandparents died within five years of our moving, so after that, I became much closer with the hispanic part. But growing up, I was never made to feel that I was any different from the (very whitebread) kids I grew up with; I never felt different either. If others treated me differently, I didn't notice it.
[Deleting identifiable information about meself (I'm listening to SpongeBob right now).]
Maybe there is discrimination in places that I don't see, but I do think he's too quick to think someone is treating him differently because of his last name.
Then again, I have an hispanic last name too, and I don't feel discriminated against, but I don't have an accent.
Whatever. This post is too long (and probably too revealing) already. I'm going to delete most of it later once I think about it, I bet.
