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first of all, i don't identify as latino, sorry!!! but anyway when i talk about mexico being treated the same way as canada, i mean,, for example when it comes to prices,, canada and usa have both of their dollars on the back of stuff, like if you bought a book in canada in the back it would say "10 usd/10 cad", but no mexican currency? isn't mexico also the neighbor and both nations have good ties?? it should be treated with the same level of important stuff

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"identify" as latino? americans are so insanely funny. I thiught latinos came from.latin america or were raised in the latin american culture.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Mate, how is that funny?

In a multicultural environment, you don’t always identify with the culture you were born into.

[–] Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's funny because OP leads with stating they don't identify as Latino, and then proceeds to ask a question that has absolutely nothing to do with identity.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, nah, that was confusing as eh.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Because if they did consider themself Latino, it might sound more like a personal complaint instead of just a general question.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Absolutely.

Genetically I'm around 50% descended from people of a culture that I simply wasn't raised in, which is associated with a religion I never practiced (as opposed to the different religion I left)

Based on looks I could easily identify as that culture and strangers wouldn't question it. They also don't question my lack of doing so.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Well, that's an accurate origin of latino.

But that doesn't mean someone is obligated to internalize being latino. That's extra true when a person is the child of immigrants. They can be raised within their parent's culture, and then take on varying degrees of identification with either that culture, or the surrounding one.

And there's nothing saying that someone in the Latin American country they're born in can't separate themselves, at least internally, from the culture of their country, or their region.

That's true of any culture. You can be from the us and take on any degree of identity as an american, or reject that entirely and build your own identity on any number of factors.

You never met anyone that's of latino origins that assimilated fully into the culture of a different country? It's pretty common. My best friend's husband is Nicaraguan, and identifies as that, Latino, and American. He's got siblings that were raised in Nicaragua before the family moved here that outright ignore that culture and don't even speak Spanish with anyone poster than their parents. He's got nieces and nephews that embrace being latino, but not necessarily Nicaraguan, and vice versa.

A sense of cultural identity is largely voluntary.

[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

"Identify" can also be used objectively in that way.
OP means "My identity ≠ Latino"
More uncommon to use it that way nowadays but you could also say "I don't identify as an American citizen" or "I identify as 15 years old" etc.