tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4953449807934643389..comments2024-03-15T20:52:26.967-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Are Brazilian immigrants Latinos?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56683138896858574952015-09-15T10:05:33.688-07:002015-09-15T10:05:33.688-07:00If Brazilians are latinos cause the Romance langua...If Brazilians are latinos cause the Romance language, so are the French, Italians,Spanish, Portuguese and Romanians.Jorge Pireshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04618194339054197548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63484713776672485032015-01-01T22:20:53.927-08:002015-01-01T22:20:53.927-08:00The second most spoken language in Brazil is Germa...The second most spoken language in Brazil is GermanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69364970342740501002015-01-01T21:51:21.273-08:002015-01-01T21:51:21.273-08:00South Americans like Brazilians or Argentinians wh...South Americans like Brazilians or Argentinians who are 100% European Caucasoid, who have 100% European ancestry/heritage/extraction are Whiter than those North Americans who are partially Jewish or those whose background is made of old European immigration from the 17th century and have some Native-American and African blood assimilation even though they look like someone who's 100% European background, regardless of looking 100% WhiteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51757637457382897502015-01-01T21:32:58.789-08:002015-01-01T21:32:58.789-08:00There are practically no Japs in Chile. Brazil is ...There are practically no Japs in Chile. Brazil is the one with the largest Japanese diaspora and also largest Italian population outside Italy. British descendants in Argentina and Brazil are Latin cuz Romance languages became their mother tongues just like Ashkenazi Jews and Arabs in Brazil and Argentina, Germans, Dutch, Lithuanians, Japanese, Czechs, Ukranians and Scandinavians in Brazil and Welsh, Norwegians, Slavic and Chinese in Argentina. It's not that complicatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13295798026297451172014-09-24T23:50:00.548-07:002014-09-24T23:50:00.548-07:00I am brazilian and I consider latinos the people f...I am brazilian and I consider latinos the people from mexico and central america. The south americans, well.. south americans but if you asked me my race, whit but my ethinicity is Brazilian just like my best friend is or black or african race but her ethnicity is Brazilian..<br />the indigenous population I believe is mainly called natives... so either brazilian indigenous population or native brazilians? Any way, my point is, I identify myself not as latina, nor american (south american) but as BrazilianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89182290906169231682012-11-15T21:11:24.426-08:002012-11-15T21:11:24.426-08:00Is John McCain Hispanic? (Born on a military base...Is John McCain Hispanic? (Born on a military base in Panama). If so, is his daughter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44828281937297887332012-02-19T02:48:57.841-08:002012-02-19T02:48:57.841-08:00An overriding hatred for the Anglo-Saxon."
T...An overriding hatred for the Anglo-Saxon."<br /><br />There is a very strong strain in Latin America, especially among the wealthier groups, of being pro-English in mannerisms and affectations. "<br /><br />Don't think there's any "overriding hatred for the Anglo-Saxon." They do prefer their "Latin" ways, but the educated people always had a tendency to British-ize their lifestyle. I knew a brazilian woman who worked at her Embassy in London during the 80s and LOVED London--she described it as "cozy" and with so many cultural amentities. She was bitter about an American backed coup in Brazil that put some guy she loathed into office and caused a lot of people to lose their jobs in the embassies. She really missed London. She was Brazilian of mostly what looked to be Portugese descent I guess. What else I don't know.coptic eyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84239404758209568202012-02-19T02:45:04.002-08:002012-02-19T02:45:04.002-08:00"His eyes were a little almond shaped and he ..."His eyes were a little almond shaped and he really looked like what I thought an ancient Egyptian would look like, though he said he thought whoever built the pyrmids had no relation to current Egyptians<br /><br />Aren't the Copts the remnants of the pyramid-build classical Ancient Egyptians, and the current "Egyptians" descendents of Arabs who ethnically cleansed them?"<br /><br />Makes sense to me. I have read anthropological studies on ancient Egypt which showed more sub-Saharan black genes in the very late Egyptians compared to the earlier ones, but I'm no expert. Looking at the scupltures and portraits--some of the very early Egyptians are Caucasoid if you have to assign a major race, but definitely have something all their own going on.<br /><br /> I don't think the guy I knew was too interested somehow, though he had a video on the pyramids.coptic eyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53649429285693272802012-02-18T23:03:49.220-08:002012-02-18T23:03:49.220-08:00"Went to UTexas with a guy whose father was a..."Went to UTexas with a guy whose father was a psychiatrists (MD) who immigrated from Portugal."<br /><br />I did get curious some years ago about who, exactly, qualified as hispanic. I remember reading on some website (maybe a government website, but not sure) that people of Portugese descent were considered hispanic. Those of Spanish descent, however, were not. So maybe your classmate qualified, if that's the way to put it.<br /><br /><br />Race may not be a social construct, but "hispanic" clearly is, or maybe a bureaucratic construct. I once had a Brazilian student of Japanese ancestry. She was as Japanese looking as any Japanese student. If she stayed in the States, would she be Asian-American or hispanic? Or would she be either and both, as suited her? <br /><br />What about her kids, or her grandkids? If she married a Japanese American of long-standing, what box would their kids tick on their college applications? I think the answer is, whichever one provided the most advantage in admissions and access to financial aid.<br /><br />I think the answer to the question of "who is hispanic" really is, "whoever says they are." Something to think about if your kids are approaching college age.Black Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347464061061628147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13171553310333773292012-02-18T13:05:53.718-08:002012-02-18T13:05:53.718-08:00I lived in Spain for four years as a kid. I went t...I lived in Spain for four years as a kid. I went to high school in Panama. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile. I speak, read, and write fluent Spanish. <br /><br />I have more experience living in Latin culture than many hispanics. Am I hispanic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69945577827855214842012-02-18T13:05:44.274-08:002012-02-18T13:05:44.274-08:00The CIA World Fact Book puts nearly 50% of the pop...The CIA World Fact Book puts nearly 50% of the population of Brazil as either black or mulatto. Another 35% or more is probably Mestizo.<br /><br />So they could all qualify as MAMBs:<br /><br />http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MAMBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22403524992694907372012-02-18T12:47:26.692-08:002012-02-18T12:47:26.692-08:00Anthony
So the rising Brazilian Real is a symptom...Anthony<br /><i> So the rising Brazilian Real is a symptom of Brazil's success, while the falling Pound is a symptom of Britain's failure.</i><br /><br />Yeah, but...devaluing the pound is British policy. <br /><br />The Bank of England invented 'quantative easing' where the Bank of England creates billions of pounds out thin air. <br /><br />Whereas, I understand the Brazilian central bank is unable to devalue the Real sufficiently...for some reason.<br /><br />Jim Rickards book 'Currency Wars', although US focused, explains this to some extent.Eine Kleine Englandernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81161357553293827072012-02-18T07:32:26.690-08:002012-02-18T07:32:26.690-08:00A lot of the "exotic ancestry" bit among...A lot of the "exotic ancestry" bit among whites is just wanting an interesting story to tell. Frex, I and my family are about as white as you can get without requiring sunblock to go outside at night. And yet, there's supposedly an American Indian somewhere on my dad's side, and a notorious (white) criminal on my mom's side. These both make for moderately interesting stories, but have little other impact. It's not like finding the alleged Indian five or six hops back in my family tree is going to get my kids preferrential admissions to college, or make me an un-fireable employee due to the threat of a discrimination lawsuit, or even get me a cut of the casino revenue from some tribe somewhere.NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12056961167256901202012-02-17T20:19:17.022-08:002012-02-17T20:19:17.022-08:00His eyes were a little almond shaped and he really...<i>His eyes were a little almond shaped and he really looked like what I thought an ancient Egyptian would look like, though he said he thought whoever built the pyrmids had no relation to current Egyptians</i><br /><br />Aren't the Copts the remnants of the pyramid-build classical Ancient Egyptians, and the current "Egyptians" descendents of Arabs who ethnically cleansed them?Stanley Coopersmithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57164892970989400702012-02-17T19:31:09.693-08:002012-02-17T19:31:09.693-08:00I'd like to think the evolution of government ...<i>I'd like to think the evolution of government in Western World was the slow and painful process of learning that people with this mentality should never be put in charge of anything important.</i><br />I know you'd like to think that, irrespective of the truth. Unfortunately, some people in the world are brutish and evil. Some are also more clever than almost all of the police (which is not surprising considering that all of the top 5% of bright kids in school go where the money is, i.e. medicine, business, engineering, law) which means that they can evade punishment most of the time. The more people are criminal in nature on average, the less a 20th century style justice system works. How does mollycoddling Frankfurt School justice work in Detroit?<br /><br />There is a minimum amount of brutality that is required for civilization to function. In the haste of supposedly well meaning do-gooders (and intelligent criminals who know what platitudes to mouth) to eliminate all brutality from society by also removing it from the justice system, the total amount of brutality rises.<br /><br />The difference is that rather than the state wield the brutality it is criminals and criminal gangs who exercise brutality, with its victims receiving zero due process, zero right to a fair trial, zero rights to appeal, with the punishment often being summary execution, and with those who exercise this judgement basing their opinions on balance of probability or worse, "better safe than sorry".<br /><br />When the numbers of victims start to seriously outweigh the numbers of people given wrist slaps by the so-called "justice" system, there is a real problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78109368852807979952012-02-17T19:25:51.437-08:002012-02-17T19:25:51.437-08:00"That rule works okay because most Middle Eas..."That rule works okay because most Middle Eastern Christians are from Lebanon and Syria, which have the lightest people in the region. If we suddenly had a big influx of brown Coptic Christians from Egypt, which come to think of it is not an entirely impossible eventuality, things would be much more complicated."<br /><br />Not all Copts are "brown" though I don't know a whole lot about them, except the one I dated, and his family. One of the palest people I ever met from the "middle east." When I first saw him, I did think he was middle eastern but couldn't quite place him. He did have curly--what he called "hard" hair, v. black. Dark eyes. Fair skin. Very regular, caucasoid features with absolutely nothing "sub-Saharan black" about them. <br />His favorite musician was Yanni and he hated Egyptian culture--considered them loud. He didn't even want to visit Italy because he figured all people living in that part of the would be "loud." When he first came to America he'd try to ingratiate himself with blacks by saying he came from Africa; but after a few years he didn't want any association with them and wanted nothing to do with them (as a whole of course, not individual blacks whom he liked or worked with.)<br />His eyes were a little almond shaped and he really looked like what I thought an ancient Egyptian would look like, though he said he thought whoever built the pyrmids had no relation to current Egyptians. Copts were outliers in Egypt, so he was not nationalistic at all.<br />Pictures of his family showed mostly very light skinned people and the kids they had with European descended spouses (including his son by a previous marriage) were entirely white looking. Didn't even have the "hard" hair.coptic eyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24229931140931485042012-02-17T17:47:36.841-08:002012-02-17T17:47:36.841-08:00However, there is a limit to everything and we wil...<i>However, there is a limit to everything and we will see it soon if we aren't seeing it already - a reaction back to historical norms, just like a rubber band snapping back to where it naturally sits. Giving police a free hand, suspension of some due process, and punishments that fit the crimes (cut the hand off the thief, torture the torturer, execute the killer). Perhaps even reprisal killings for mass murder and serial killings, in order to punish the families who would harbor such evil and send a strong message to those who would consider perpetrating such acts.</i><br /><br /><br />I'd like to think the evolution of government in Western World was the slow and painful process of learning that people with this mentality should never be put in charge of anything important.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54070108351398320772012-02-17T17:28:38.553-08:002012-02-17T17:28:38.553-08:00"Is Alberto Fujimori Hispanic?"
LOL No-..."Is Alberto Fujimori Hispanic?"<br /><br />LOL No- He's Chino!!<br /><br />@Rohan<br /><br />Yes we have our legends too- I didn't get too much schooling in Latin America- but I do remember that the theme was the evil greedy Spaniards came on their quest for gold- totally exploited the Indians (who were tall and blue-eyed, don't you know- god knows how we got these 4'11 people built like SpongeBob)....Anyway, Atahualpa, the King of the Incas agreed to give Pizarro (Spanish conquistador) a room full of silver and a room full of gold (as tall as him with his hand outstretched to the sky)...Pizarro got the booty and killed Atahualpa anyway by drawing and quartering him. <br /><br />The theme is that the Spaniards were evil bastards and the Incas were noble- their only flaw being that the Trusted Too Much. The irony is that this BS is passed on to us by a mostly white elite- who are more tied to their nationality than they are to their race. <br /><br />I really liked Apocalypto BTW :DFlaviahttp://revoltagainst.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47254093683914934612012-02-17T16:40:31.852-08:002012-02-17T16:40:31.852-08:00Anonydroid at 11:55 a.m. quoted the PSAT: "F...Anonydroid at 11:55 a.m. quoted the PSAT: "For purposes of the NHRP, you must be from a family whose ancestors came from at least one of these countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay or Venezuela."<br /><br />Hunsdon replied: Spain, but not Portugal? Brazil, but not Portugal?Hunsdonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84789053159897000212012-02-17T16:07:16.048-08:002012-02-17T16:07:16.048-08:00"If we suddenly had a big influx of brown Cop..."If we suddenly had a big influx of brown Coptic Christians from Egypt, which come to think of it is not an entirely impossible eventuality, things would be much more complicated.<br /><br />They would be labled as "African-American" which neither they nor the larger African -American community would appreciate at all."<br /><br />Presumably, they would be considered "Caucasian" under the census definition, just as other people from the middle east are technically "Caucasian".Georgia Residentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19977085364186514622012-02-17T14:11:21.348-08:002012-02-17T14:11:21.348-08:00@Rohan Swee In the Romantic period of Brazilian li...@Rohan Swee In the Romantic period of Brazilian literature, just after our independence, the Native was the epitome of Brazilian-ness. The most famous examples of this are "O Guarani" and "Iracema". But as a Brazilian, I can't think of a single relevant Indigenous personality in our history. Nowadays, we tend to regard everything African in origin as authentically Brazilian, as opposed to our European influences, which are often deemed "foreign". Natives are also cool, but nobody out of the Amazonian region cares that much about them. Keep in mind that what I'm saying (except for the literary part and Indians as our first national symbols) is a bit anedoctal, so other Brazilians might disagree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43010352239495852352012-02-17T14:11:10.849-08:002012-02-17T14:11:10.849-08:00For purposes of the NHRP, you must be from a famil...<i> For purposes of the NHRP, you must be from a family whose ancestors came from at least one of these countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay or Venezuela."</i><br />I´m confused: if Brazil and Spain are in the list, it stands to reason that Portugal should be in there too.bruce bannernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47256092771780154222012-02-17T14:06:03.396-08:002012-02-17T14:06:03.396-08:00Is Alberto Fujimori Hispanic?Is Alberto Fujimori Hispanic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46416548290915798292012-02-17T13:59:46.460-08:002012-02-17T13:59:46.460-08:00So for purposes of the PSAT, my kids are hispanic,...So for purposes of the PSAT, my kids are hispanic, but their kids likely won't be.<br /><br />The Census definition leaves out "Caribbean", so someone from Jamaica or the Virgin Islands is not hispanic, but someone from Belize or Guyana is.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389602137217799305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85699339632760257792012-02-17T13:53:39.751-08:002012-02-17T13:53:39.751-08:00Eine Kleine Englander - a currency which is increa...Eine Kleine Englander - a currency which is increasing in value is the world's way of noticing that yes, you are doing something right. And we're going to make it harder for you to sell abroad. So the rising Brazilian Real is a symptom of Brazil's success, while the falling Pound is a symptom of Britain's failure.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389602137217799305noreply@blogger.com