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Old 03-02-2011, 05:00 PM #26
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Mexican is not a race. The majority of Mexicans are white.
Most Mexicans are mestizos (mixed Spanish and native ancestry). Racial slurs for Latin Americans such as 'spic' and 'wetback' commonly refer to stereotypes for Mexican immigrants and hispanic Americans in general. You're an American living in a state that borders Mexico, populated heavily with Mexican diaspora and you don't know this?
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Most Mexicans are mestizos (mixed Spanish and native ancestry). Racial slurs for Latin Americans such as 'spic' and 'wetback' commonly refer to stereotypes for Mexican immigrants and hispanic Americans in general. You're an American living in a state that borders Mexico, populated heavily with Mexican diaspora and you don't know this?

Oh please3, the majority of mexicans are white, and they CLAIM to be part native, just like any American you meet will claim to be PART native. Gimme a break.


We're all 1/18th native. lol My great great grandfather married a navajo princess! you may address me as "your royal highness"

this is a genuine photograph of my great great uncle twice removed:

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this is a genuine photograph of my great great uncle twice removed:
Which ones that then, the man on the horse, the negro, the Native American, one of the cattle or the horse's ass?

Incidentally thats not a photograph, me old fruit.
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Incidentally thats not a photograph, me old fruit.
...and incidentally you didn't get the joke.

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It's not like we even have many Mexicans in this country God knows who complained
The Mexican Ambassador did.

However the show is broadcast on BBC Entertainment which can be viewed in Central and South America. Though it will be a while before it airs, if that show does ever air, over there.
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Well I must say, they cook up the tastiest vomit.

Yeah, it was a bit ignorant of them to say that, but *shrug* they thrive off the complaints.
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