"Isn't it time for the language to move on?" How do you feel about this? Why?
I feel very connected to what she says when she talks about the Hispanic population, because I'm part of it. I've heard the words "cholo", "pocho", and many other labels that people give to Mexicans that live here in the states, since I came to live here. Even if they where born here, that brownish color on their skin, and the not very good accent that we have, because most of the Hispanic people speak two languages, puts us in that kind of situations.
And In fact, how Arana says "Even they label themselves by the apparent color of their skin". The truth is we call ourselves those names, so clearly the mind change about racism has to come from the bottom, from the "affected" people. We can't blame the peopl
e that label us, for calling other people "black", "Chicano", because we accept it and we live with it. What we can blame them for is for labeling the United States as a "post-racial society".When people talk about America they referee to it as a free country or a country with freedom of speech, But they don't know that there are schools in this country where if you speak Spanish, you go straight to detention.
The racism in America changed yes, before Martin Luther King and some other people that helped to "kill" racism, it was open to the eyes of the world. Now is quite because maybe is not "cool" to make a racist joke maybe. But it's still there, because if we don't change our mind on how we think about other cultures, NOTHING is going to change it. I think that is a personal
decision that everyone makes, and has to go through. Either you accept variety, not necessarily like it, or you hate it and live with it, because bi-racial population will keep growing.
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