Discuss “Hispanic Heritage Month comes to close”
Today is the culmination of salsa lessons, siestas, Latin film festivals, and Spanish posters on campus, otherwise known as Hispanic Heritage Month at Carnegie Mellon. The annual 30-day celebration, which ran this year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, featured lectures, late-night activities, movie screenings, and a service fair with the Hispanic community of Pittsburgh.
The events highlighted the Hispanic organizations on campus, especially the Spanish and Latin American Student Association (SALSA), Latin American Business Association, and National Society of Hispanic Engineers (NSHE).
Several other organizations helped with the month, including the Multicultural Presidents’ Council (MPC). The group is a collaboration of cultural organizations...
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Oct 15, 2007 at 01:34 PM
I AM NOT HISPANIC.
I am a MEXICAN.I am a Mexican-descent person.
I am not a Spaniard. I am not from Spain. I don't even speak Spanish very well.
I use a Japanese car, but that doesn't make me Japanese. Shaqueille O'Neil has an Irish name and speaks English, but that doesn't make him an Irishman.
I am brown-skinned, not white-skinned like a European. Most of my family tree comes from Mexican Indians. That's why I'm BROWN.
I AM NOT A SPANIARD. I AM NOT HISPANIC. I AM NOT AN IMMIGRANT FROM SPAIN. I AM NOT A FOREIGNER.
"Hispanic" is a racist label meant to kill our identity as Indigenous-descent people. It's a false label. It's a deception. Whites don't want us to think of ourselves as "The Indians" (mixed-bloods and full-bloods), because then we will question their presence on our continent.
Notice how nobody ever says "Hispanic Indians"?
Notice how it's totally EUROCENTRIC?
It's a new label meant to brand us as foreigners with a lame culture that can only brag of salsa dancing and speaking Spanish, instead of bragging about pyramids, Mayan astronomy, Aztec cities, and a heritage that precedes Europeans on this continent by thousands of years.
Don't call me Hispanic or Latino!