My relatives seem to think that Spanish is genetic. It isn't. Language is TAUGHT, not in your DNA. If you want your sons and daughters to learn Spanish, TEACH THEM.
Héctor Flores 2 yes, it is what defines being latin, is being speaking a latin language. If you speak english as your native and main language, that you evolve in the north American english-speaking culture, then you are Anglo, not latin.
Yea, I’m half Mexican because my dad and his whole family is full Mexican, but he never taught me Spanish because he was always drunk. People always are like “Um, you’re not a Mexican, you don’t speak Spanish.” Even my dads family judges me cause I can’t speak it. People say that to the point where I feel weird about saying I’m Hispanic or a Latina.😔
Short answer: this obviously just depends where you live. In America people wouldn’t care the majority would consider you Latino because Americans tend to claim the culture of their great-great-grandparents. But when you speak with people outside the US, the 99% of actual Latin Americans born and raised in Latin America would consider you as gringo as a white American. Not a “real Latino” at all. Love it or hate it, but that’s how it is. There’s your answer.
Agreed. I’m first gen American, & was always called ‘white’ when I was growing up by family members, tho it never bothered me. I’ve always spoken English bcuz my family was learning English before I was even born, in the US. I’ve never been a fluent Spanish speaker
I agree. Latino is a marker that references a LOCATION,regardless of race or ethnicity, therefore what "validates" a latino is BEING from Latin America. If you're born in the U.S. you're a gringo that is descended from latinos,no matter how close you are with the foreign part of your family. Also there's no sense in using nationalities to describe your racial/ethnical identity, Latin America is constitued off modern multiracial and multiethnical nations, you can only be of *said nationality* if you're ACTUALLY from here,otherwise you're just as gringo as any european.
Forget the question/ debate I always just can't stand how hispanics at my job come up to me in the us speaking Spanish to me or when I come up to them speaking English n they act like they don't ANY of it. I try not to be judgmental (what ppl call "Karen") but...how???Spanish isn't my first toungne (hatian creole is) but I had to give directions in Spanish the whole ride to my job to this lady b.c the app broke down in her ride sharing app n she said "no Englis". But when as soon as I get out she is like close app n close door. I said to her face now u speak English n she laughed in my face.🤦♀️ I said I was right. Most of them do it on purpose...n I even had a Dominican n Mexican hint tht to me. But cap 4 what (porque???)
la respuesta es no... si no hablas la lengua, no tienes lazos con la cultura y no vives ni has vivido lo que eso trae consigo, los latinos de segunda o tercera generación tienen otra cultura, pero ya no tienen lazos con Latinoamérica, lo cual no esta mal todos migramos y nos volvemos parte de la cultura a donde llegamos y creo que eso es hermoso
Los hispanicos que no hablan Español son gringos. En general los chicanos son gringos, solo quienes vivimos en América Latina podemos ser latinos o hispanos, porque solo así se puede vivir la experiencia del tercer mundo
@@yurdebest Capo, Latinoamérica se llama así por los países que hablan una lengua derivada del latín, osea el Español y el Portugués estan incluidos ahí (también el Francés pero eso no importa ahora)
Latino is someone who was born in Latin America and speaks spanish/portuguese as mother language (or second language in the case of Native indigenous). This is not about genetics, Japanese descendants born in Brazil who live in the Japanese neighbor in São Paulo are latinos. The only US citizens who would be considered latinos are most people from Florida, where english is the second language. JL is a gringa who speaks a little spanish.
@@vernicejillmagsino9603 this is true, and the school system is in English, as is communication between different groups. English is the common, national language of the United States, every state as of 2024
I have been scolded by people. I do understand more than I can speak. I have had co workers make fun of me in Spanish and I understood them. It hurts to be put down and left sitting there at functions because everyone is speaking to each other in Spanish. I have tried to learn but it doesn't stick. Plus my immediate family spoke only English in the house. My parents were young when they had me so they didn't push for me to speak Spanish. No matter what I love my Hispanic heritage.
Omg me too!! I can't speak Spanish but if others speak to me in Spanish I do understand bout 80%. So its hilarious when ppl say things towards me and I come out with bruh I know what u just said about me lol
Next time tell them to speak their native American language (obviously most are going extinct). Neither Spanish nor English are our original languages. Most are probably going to give you excuses, and that's ok bc just like you don't speak Spanish, they most likely don't know the dialogue or the tribe they even descended from.
I always felt bad for latinos who didn't speak Spanish because it's like they're losing part of their culture. However, I don't shame them whatsoever. EDIT: crazy to see many years later how many people responded to my comment. Honestly I no longer think this way. Tbh I don't care if you see Spanish or not, doesn't make you any less latinx.
Vanessa, if you're going to get technical then our "real" culture is not the indigenous culture either. Our "real" culture would come even before that.
Na nican tlaca are starting to find our way back to our true history and culture... Yes I have some Spanish blood and am not ashamed of it but I am mexica not Spanish and will not start learning Spanish til I am fluent in nahuatl
Doesnt Matter nice, good luck... Are you finding it as hard as I am to find a consistent dictionary because of variations? I recently started learning classical nahuatl only to find that it is not really the same as what's spoken today
Talking shit about how the process of learning Spanish in the "new world" was bad doesn't mean a thing to all of us. Tons of Latinos have European ancestry because a lot of Europeans came to Latin America after the wars of the last century. Talking about the "real culture" of language is very complicated considering the fact that in Latin America people has tons of cultures mixed: indigenous, European (who was very influenced by Arabic countries), African, and even North American because of the media and the amount of Americans who came in last century for work around here.
mari-chan I don't like to be compared with hispanic People, cuz i have My own heritage and we are not similar. I prefer be only called of brazilian over latina!
No... the worst is when people teach you, but you decide that you don't like it and that you don't want to learn it, so you don't.... Like my brother! lol Of course when I want to cheese him off I start talking to him in spanish... 40 years now, and he still gets annoyed.
Uhm, you shouldn't wait for someone to offer you teaching ypu something if you want to learn it. It boils down to assholes that don't want to be bothered learning something new or having any type of personal growth
Being an Afro Latina who can’t speak Spanish very well is difficult. When I tell people that I’m mixed they don’t believe me because of my skin color. When Latinos come in all different colors.
Black Queen Light skinned latinos get the same..no one ever thinks my mom is from PR cause shes light..apparently you only look latino if you are tan...
Yes!! My parents raised me and my sister to speak only English because it was believed that if we learned Spanish too it would mess us up in school... I really wish I had learned to speak it as a kid first than try to learn it as an adult.
Danna Gonzaga Exactly!!!!, I remember that my parents never taught me English, because obviously they don't know, they spoke to me ikn Spanish my whole childhood. I remember that when I went to pre-school, I didn't knew any English, I couldn't even say "may I go to the bathroom?", but at school I learned English, and now I'm perfectly fluent on both languages. También gracias a las clases de español que tengo en la escuela, puedo escribirlo y leerlo.
It's because of the influence from Latin American Spanish. I have some friends who are Brazilian and we can communicate quite well. I've also met some people from Portugal who say that Brazilian Portugese is sing-songy and that Portugal Portuguese is aggressive in comparison.
That's correct. Our Portuguese is more similar to 18th century portuguese, and we have a lot of influence from African languages (mostly Yoruba) and native languages (tupi-guarani being the most present). But being a continental size country, we have too many different accents, some more melodical than others.
Di lo que quieras disque latina gringa, pero si no hablas español o portugués, NO eres latino, y no lo eres porque el conocer el idioma es el que te permite conocer la cultura. Por donde le busques, jamas podrás adentrarte en el mundo latino sin el idioma porque sin el idioma, no puedes conocer la cultura.
Lo que pasa es que los hijos de latinos nacidos en estados unidos vivimos en un país obsesionado con la “raza” y el color de piel. Siendo estadounidenses nos acostumbramos a ver las cosas desde el punto de vista de la sociedad anglosajona (que es sumamente dividida por color de piel) y nos identificamos con ser “brown” (marrón, café, morenos). Hasta los latinos bien blanquitos y negros se identifican como morenos nada más 🤣🤣 Los que crecimos en las ciudades con mucha población latina (por ejemplo Nueva York, Miami, Los Ángeles, Houston, Phoenix, San Francisco, etc) solemos hablar el español con más fluidez porque hay prácticamente todo tipo de servicio en ambos idiomas. Sin embargo hay algunos que viven toda la vida acá sin saber ni papa de la lengua de sus padres y se sienten forzados a identificar con ser latinos por la sociedad racista en la que vivimos. Luego cuando van de visita a Guadalajara, la Habana, San Salvador o San juan se dan cuenta de que son percibidos como un gringo más el momento en el que abren la boca
@@hiphipjorge5755 si, es totalmente cierto. Lo que pasa es que acá en Latinoamérica aunque uno tenga sangre/herencia también latina, si esa persona no habla español o lo habla muy mal y poco, y aparte sentimos "agringada" a esa persona, jamás lo consideraríamos como uno de los nuestros. Como que acá hay mucho el síndrome del "malinchista" por lo que alguien de ese perfil no sería considerado como uno más
El español y el portugués no son las únicas lenguas con las que una persona se puede considerar latino, porque el término latino, en si, se refiere a todos los idiomas tengan raíces del latin, y acá no solo está el español y portugués, también está el francés e italiano, es más los italianos son los primeros "latinos" por decir haci, ya después existe otro término el cual es Latinoamerica (la primera vez que este término fue utilizado fue en 1856), y es utilizado para referirse a los países donde su lengua sea un derivado del latin.
I’m half Mexican, and my mother decided not to push too hard on teaching us Spanish when we were young because she feared we’d develop accents and peers would make fun of us in school. At this point I’d much rather have the accent.
@@user-hd8ej8yx9pit's because they'll get made fun of because they don't speak English right away and they'll put you in ESOL and that could slow make you repeat a grade
I got made fun of ALL the time cuz "I'm brown but don't know spanish" As I got older I learned more Spanish as I worked in a Mexican restaurant for 4 years. And even now I continue to practice my Spanish every day.
THISSS!!! YESSS!!! I always got A LOT of people telling me that I wasn't Mexican enough because I didn't speak Spanish fluently. But what most people fail to realize is that since I am Deaf, I already spent YEARS learning how to speak English through speech therapy. So when it came to learning Spanish, I would need to do everything all over again because learning how to speak a language you can't even hear... Hell no. However, recently I have been learning American Sign Language and I found out that there is LSM, Mexican sign language. So I am going to take that up next. Super pumped that I finally I found some languages that I don't need to learn how to pronounce. Thanks for the videos guys! Keep calling them out!
Jessica Flores good for you i speak Spanish fluently but i have trouble speaking it sometimes. I also struggle with writing properly in Spanish for letters and any occasion when i have to write Spanish, but i guess that not everyone is lucky enough to learn their native language properly.
TheeKatsMeoww Thank you it means a lot! It's always nice to find Latinx UA-camrs to relate to ❤️ Keep up the amazing work! Can't wait to see more videos :)
Thank you, I am mixed race, half Spanish/Venezuelan and half Amazigh (Berber) Moroccan, I get this from both my mom's Spanish side and my dad's Moroccan side for not speaking Tamazight and Arabic. I am also slowly going deaf in both ears, like my right now has mild hearing loss and left ear has now 85% hearing loss, and it is already starting to get difficult understanding English with lip reading and what is left of my hearing, forget even trying to freaking understand Spanish, Arabic and Tamazight. But like you I have a plan regarding learning sign language, I am currently learning BSL (British Sign Language), then next I plan to learn ASL (American Sign Language) and then LSE (Lengua de Signos Española) and finally MSL (Moroccan Sign Language) which is similar kind of a mix of French, American and Tribal signs. It is nice to see another deaf Latinx who I relate to and who is like me.
I️ only speak some Spanish but still barely. I️ always feel ashamed being around others who speak Spanish way better than me. My family always reminds me how my sister is fluent in Spanish and not me but it’s not my fault her first language was spanish and mine was English:/
julianna graysweataaa I honestly feel this. I was born in the United States and my mom somehow expects me to be fluent in Spanish when nobody ever taught me how to read or write in the language. My sister, on the other hand, was actually born and raised in Colombia obviously she speaks Spanish the best out of all 3 of us. My mum constantly reinforces how I can't speak Spanish like she's even helping. Today, she told me to go to the doctor with her to translate but I know she only made me come with her so she can make me feel further bad about myself because she knows 100% I can't speak it. I'm so tired of her bullshit.
I'm Mexican and I hate how Mexicans shame other Mexicans for not speaking Spanish, they will ur brow u should speak Spanish even tho it's a white European lang .. and Mexicans are native Americans not white!
I'm Cuban, born in NJ but my mom and Grand Parents moved to the U.S. before Fidel came to power. Mom speaks fluent Spanish and English, my Grandmother only speaks Spanish, and I only speak English. I was never taught Spanish but am now teaching myself at 31 yrs old.
@@cloroxbleach848 de que hablas? Los mexicanos no somos nativos americanos, esos son los indígenas y no todos los mexicanos somos indígenas, la mayoría somos mestizos.
@@cloroxbleach848 Being mexican is a nationality not a race, I don’t know any mexican that can’t speak spanish. You are probably american with mexican desendance, unless you have the mexican citizenship then yes you are mexican, if you don’t then you are not.
kitteekittee trump will never learn Spanish and he won’t be robbed of opportunities. Hmmm why is that? Oh yeah because English is the universal language and Spanish is spoken in the barrio slum of USA not the suburbs.
To be Latino you have to be have been born in Latin America and most likely raised there too. Like it or not, real latinos won't consider you one of them even if you claim to be.
Learning more than one language stimulates your brain, no more excuses folks. Teach them your (or your parents) home country’s language. And any other language you want, it’ll actually help your kids in the long run.
Yo mismo juraba que yo enseñará los idiomas que sé a mis hijos cuando los tengo Eso es una promesa que yo estara despuesto a cuidar I swore that i will teach the languages that i know to my children when i have them That's a promise that I'm willing to keep
Preach! I hardly speak Spanish, but I understand most of it. It's annoying that my family members would make me feel like this, when I didn't speak a lot of Spanish around them. I've just learned that people are gonna judge no matter what!
@rudy melgar i bring up the White European language point because you said you "ain't gonna be whitewashed". Spanish is a White language like English. I too speak both languages fluently and people like us are blessed to speak more than one language but you or anyone should not be judgemental or harsh to those who don't because at the end of the day, everyone's circumstances, family history and life experiences are different. Is it more enriching to know your ancestors language when it comes to communication with extended family? Yes it is, but people shouldn't be put down or shamed if they don't speak that language. All it matters is that the person had a good upbringing, has morals, good manners, is respectful, humble and is an overall good human being. People can possess these qualities and still only speak English while being Hispanic.
The thing is... They maybe grew up speaking Spanish. For some reason, they had to move to a different country and learnt a new language, now, when they get together, they speak Spanish to each other so they can feel a bit more at home, and won't stop it just because some relatives weren't taught how to/didn't want to speak the language. Pretending your family speaks full English just because you don't speak Spanish is selfish as hell! If you really want to be part of the conversation, you should use your time to learn the language instead of bitching around.
The answer is NO. Having ancestry from a certain country does not make you part of it. I am of Italian descent and never set foot in Italy in my life. I am not part of there, I do not speak the language and the truth is that it is very "patúa" and very disrespectful to do that. Do not pretend to be LATINOS, because they are not, they only have Latin descent and THAT'S ALL, period and it's over. It is even offensive how they try to take a place that does not belong to them and even worse, trying to SPEAK FOR LATINOS in the United States when they don't even know their own people and what really happens here in Latin America, is super disgusting, and believe me that MANY Latinos think like me. Someone has to tell them, enough is enough. and stop fetishizing us.
Estoy de acuerdo contigo, me parece increíble como gringos se creen latinos por que su tatarabuela nació en Colombia pero nunca han puesto un pie en el país, no saben nada sobre ninguna tradición y mucho menos saben el idioma, piensan en nosotros desde su visión americana privilegiada, estereotipos, tratan el "ser latino" como si fuéramos un color de piel, raza o tribu, piensan que las mujeres somos todas perras extrovertidas, calientes, fiesteras, que traemos a nuestros vatos pa arriba y pa abajo golpeándolos (ojo con la violencia internalizada) dicen que los argentinos no son latinos porque son blancos, si dices ser una mujer latina pero no eres morena, de baja estatura y de figura curvilinea te tratan de "fake latina" ahora resulta que tu wey sabes que se necesita para ser latino más que nosotros, no me jodas, y la lista sigue y sigue-
Aparte de que ellos piensan que los "latinos" son una cultura, cuando no, muchos países de está región tienen una visión de la cultura y del mundo distinta.
Pues si quieres ser latina aprende Español, ya te imagino en las calles de la Cudad de Mexico sin que nadie te entienda y diciendo que eres latina, de risa loca...
En realidad ellos no son latinos ni se consideran latinos. Simplemente son de origen latinos pero no son latinos y no les interesa tampoco. Y no esta mal ni bien. Simplemente viven las vida que les toco.
@@anthonyyarmulenko7359 Al chile que no lo son, pero como sus padres son inmigrantes pues se creen latinos. Mi mamá es venezolana, pero como yo nací _y crecí_ en Costa Rica, pues soy tico y punto.
@@anthonyyarmulenko7359 Latino no es una raza en primer lugar... por ejemplo si tus padres son rusos y tu te crías en un país latino lo eres. porqué no existe ni raza o grupo sanguíneo "latino", más bien es una cultura y estilo de vida.
Si no hablas español no eres un latino y nunca lo seras los latinos no somos un grupo étnico ni cultural solo somos un grupo lingüístico los mexicanos, colombianos, peruanos,españoles etc somos hispanos ya que somos del mismo grupo étnico y cultural solo que el termino hispano siempre se confunde con el termino latino mas bien tu pregunta debería ser puedo seguir siendo hispana aunque no hable español la cual depende mas de a quien le preguntes ya que si nos basamos en las personas que le han dado grandes aportes a la cultura hispana como Carlos I de España y V de Alemania o Cervantes la lengua española es muy importante para la identidad hispana.
Nadie es menos latino por no hablar su lengua pero, en mí opinión, si realmente "amas" tu cultura haces un esfuerzo por hablar tu idioma (sea español, sea portugués, sea guaraní). Por otro lado, conozco muchos brasileños que no se consideran latinos pero ese es un debate a parte.
Totalmente de acuerdo contigo. Mucha gente por vergüenza, pereza e ignorancia no enseña a sus hijos el español y/o los hijos no lo quieren aprender por las mismas razones.
De acuerdo. Es que perderías contacto con gran parte de tu cultura si no supieras el idioma. Es como uno actuar gringo, pero nunca aprender inglés. Podrás saber lo que las personas te digan de la cultura, pero nunca te sentiras completamente identificado si no sabes de primer plano lo que es vivirla a través de la expresión cotidiana y escrita.
The word latino originally refers to someone who belongs to the cultures of the Romance Languages, that is, those peoples whose language, and culture derive from the language and civilization of Rome, which was latin. Among these Romance languages are Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Rumanian. Therefore, all Italians, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Rumanians, and Portuguese, as well as all those Latin Americans whose language is Spanish or Portuguese (an English-speaking person from Jamaica would not qualify) are latinos. So people that do not speak spanish or portuguese are not considered latinos.
@Dragoslav Vega The Brazilian Nationalists The word latino originally refers to someone who belongs to the cultures of the Romance Languages, that is, those peoples whose language, and culture derive from the language and civilization of Rome, which was latin. Among these Romance languages are Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Rumanian. Therefore, all Italians, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Rumanians, and Portuguese, as well as all those Latin Americans whose language is Spanish or Portuguese (an English-speaking person from Jamaica would not qualify) are latinos. So people that do not speak spanish or portuguese are not considered latinos.
@Dragoslav Vega, Brazilian-American Nationalists But Brazil is a shithole, violent country, nobody cares about portuguese language, and english is important because is the language of pirates, you can sell opium to china, invade every country in the world, bombing them and kill the native population.
@Dragoslav Vega, Brazilian-American Nationalists As a Mexican, I don't care about your country actually. And actually if is not because of population, your country could not be as "great as you imagine". Your country is only "importabt because" have around 210 million people, if they get the same population as Mexico, we actually becames more powerful and dominant. Also, no one really wants to learn Portuguese outside Latin America, but Spanish is the secoond most popular language for learning in Europe and the most popular forgein language in the US.
Pues si siempre se quejan de que no hablan porque papi o mami no les enseño, pues para eso estan las clases de español, lo que pasa es que son guevones y aun asi quieren ser latinos.
being latino it's so much more than having a great grandfather that once went to Tijuana to have dinner. It's fascinating how gringos always like to identify with a lot of cultures they don't belong to. Being latino means being born and raised (or at the very least raised) in Latin America. Even if your parents are latinos but you're a first gen US citizen then you're not latino, because you've never experienced what it means to live in Latin America. It's not that hard to understand. Don't be ashamed of being born in the USA and don't try to be someone you are not.
@@rmoises8 son idiomas originarios del continente, no son considerados provenientea del latín pero forman parte de la cultura, ésto por la conquista , es una mezcla de culturas, los idiomas provenientes del latín son Español, Portugués, Italiano, Francés,etc Jamas escuché ni considere que los idiomas originarios o prehispánicos fueran provenientes del latín porque no lo son por eso son considerados originarios, que tú digas que son provenientes del latín, con todo respeto, pero deja ver que no sabes nada de literalmente cualquier país de Latinoamérica.
@@acerolaarata3112 Nadie esta diciendo lo contrario, amiga. Solo estamos diciendo que las personas que no hablan idiomas latinos o viven bajo contextos latinoamericanos no se les debería llamar hispanos/latinos.
To be considered a latinoamerican the languages included are just spanish, portugues (I don't know how to write it in english) and french, they are not too many languages as you say, because the indigeneous languages are not latinoamericans (because they don't come from the latin)
@Drago, The Brazilian nationalist Why some of you Brazilians are unnecessarily rude and hostile here on UA-cam when it comes to Spanish? I very often come across nasty comments like yours. I don't understand this hostility some of you guys have with our language.
@Drago, The Brazilian nationalist See what I mean? Nasty. How would you like it if I trashed your precious Portuguese and call it a retarded drunk version of Spanish and a stupid-ass gay language? Hurts, doesn't it? For the record I think Portuguese is a beautiful language and I even learned a decent amount of it myself. I know not all Brazilians are like you. They are usually very nice, polite and respectful people but like everywhere else, there's always exceptions. Congrats on your new president.
Why these american people call themselves « latin/latino » when in reality are from a anglo country and not a latin one, and they do not speak a latin language.
I would like to see a Kat Call on colorism in Latin American community. I look Caucasian and I get treated like I’m not Mexican enough even though Spanish is my first language and I’m a first gen American. Also I have friends who are Afro Latino and get the same treatment. Not to mention my friends who look Asian and are from Peru. We all get asked “why don’t you look Latino.”
I relate so much to this. I'm half Costa Rican and half Sicilian, and I'm pale. People have literally told me that I'm a "knock off Latina" because I don't speak fluent Spanish and my skin isnt tan. I understand most Spanish, I just cant speak it. To be honest, its created a little bit of an identity issue for me. I'm technically "mixed" but I dont look it. I wish people would just respect other peoples culture regardless of their appearances.
I believe she did make a video on colorism. But girl yaasss! Colorism plaques the Latino community. I look like what I am. A Puerto Rican. But I'm tanned and people say I don't loom Puerto Rican. I'm like.. what is a Puerto Rican suppose to look like? My mom looks white, my dad looks mixed, and I look indigenous. Our family reunion, no one literally loom alike lolol you got blacks, whites, mixed looking people, Taino looking people lol Puerto Rico do NOT have a "look" that is similar. It's not like Asians where you can kinda tell that someone is Asian... what part of Asia maybe not but Asian for sure. I feel like people who throws this hate out have their own insecurities... Be loud and proud of your heritage! Even if you don't live there:-)
Maybe, there is a difference between a person of Latino (or whatever you want to call it) descent and actual Latinos. It's not the same if you are a 1st generation immigrant than being 2nd or 3rd generation.
You don't have to be able to speak Spanish to be a Latino, BUT they are a Spanish speaking family so it is understandable that the family is ashamed of the guy. It is sad that many immigrants in the U.S. are losing their mother tongues.
my mom chose to not teach her last three kids spanish. my dad had just gone to prison when i was 5 (he was the dominant spanish speaker). so english is my main language. i can understand spanish, but it's very difficult to communicate back. my twin sister is actively learning how to speak spanish and i am very proud of her. it sucked growing up when other girls talked shit about me in spanish. but it taught me how to ignore negative haters. and guess what? regardless if i speak spanish or not, people will still see me as latina. and they ended up including me in their group anyways. i will always love my people and my family.
I am the first generation of my family that lost Spanish due to misguided notions that my mother's generation was led to believe. I and everyone in my generation were stripped of their Spanish speaking heritage encouraged by a bunch of assholes telling my family that being bilingual would lead to worse academic results. Of course, it was a bunch of white people that said that. Anyways, I am the only one in my generation that actually did anything about it and I learned Spanish and now speak it fluently. But I was so pissed off about growing up monolingual that I also speak Italian now, some French, and I'm taking German. Making up for lost time!
Daniel G Me too! I pretty much spent my entire high school learning Spanish trying to makeup for lost culture. The only problem now is I don't use it as often, no one in my house speaks Spanish a lot so I'm afraid of losing it. But yeah, I'm still learning and even picking up some other languages like Portuguese and ASL.
Hi Mireya and Taryn! The first thing I did was to find a complete course of Spanish. I went through the duolingo course then started speaking outside of duo. I started using websites to meet native Spanish speakers and chat using the internet through Whatsapp and Skype. I found that there was a meetup group in Phoenix and I started attending Spanish groups several times a week. Let me tell you, NOTHING makes you learn how to speak a language better than being face to face with someone! So I still attend group though it only took a few months of boldly speaking, errors be damned, to get fluent. I also like to hop onto HelloTalk several times a week to speak to natives, even though most just want to text. It still forces you to use your new skills and you get helpful feedback from the natives. But speak. Children learn languages better because they speak fearlessly. Adults learn vocabulary better because they are able to focus for longer periods of study. Use both strengths and you'll learn quicker than you thought possible! Ok, gonna hop onto HelloTalk now! Hasta luego!
Its always good to speak Spanish or any other language. I speak Spanish fluently, along with french and Japanese and learned a bit of german and Russian and maybe soon lean Portuguese :)
Kat says that Spanish was forced on Latin America. This is circular logic. Latin America became "Latin" only AFTER Latin-derived languages were brought to the Western Hemisphere by Europeans who eventually settled there. These languages include French and Portuguese in addition to Spanish. A more accurate way to put it is that European languages were forced on the native peoples of the western hemisphere which, to them, where the languages of foreign invaders. To answer Kat's original question: Hispanics who don't speak Spanish are most certainly less connected to Hispanic culture because language is a major component of culture. So a more appropriate question to ask is: Is it bad for people to be less connected to culture of one's ancestors? THAT is a matter of opinion.
Those that may be true, it's just a language. We're not losing part of our culture because we don't speak Spanish. Every language can be translated. You're right, Latin is a Language, but it's also a place. Many Latin Americans didn't and don't speak Latin. It's extremely uncommon, and I'm Puerto Rican. I'm straight from the heart of South America. I'm not losing touch with my culture. If it was English instead of Spanish, you wouldn't have said that. Many people like you are ignorant. We're not losing our culture. Culture is traditions, how you dress, what you celebrate and even foods you eat. A tradition and holiday in Mexico is the day of the dead. If Mexicans don't celebrate that, would they lose culture? Who knows, it's a belief. Just like this is a easy, and well translated language. Don't even try with that. Smfh.
I’m Filipino and Mexican, I talked too “white to be considered either for not knowing the native languages. My mom was discriminated against as a child growing up because she didn’t speak Spanish. My abuela didn’t want her to know Spanish. She wanted to fit in because growing up it was obviously hard being minorities in Cali. And being maids in those rich parts of Cali was a struggle. I never learned and after finally visiting my family in Texas I was shamed for not knowing Spanish and being mixed. I grew up identifying more with my Hispanic side because that was the community I was raised in. I love my culture and I will continue to challenge myself to learn the language. I can understand it more than I can speak it. I learned smaller saying and one worded responses from my mother and abuela. I still feel just as connected but still discriminated against by mi gente.
Noup. Latino is the one who was born and raised in LATIN AMERICA punto. Is not difficult. Being a descendant of Latinos does not make you Latino, much less if your identification document says: US citizen. Also knowing the language allows you to appreciate and live the traditions and cultures. Growing up without living or understanding THIS is what doesn't make you Latino.
True. Im half colombian half polish and so until the age of 3 I only spoke spanish with my mother and then after that she said she just stopped speaking to me in spanish one day and then soon over time I forgot and now years later she makes fun of me for not knowing how to speak it :((
You have a good point. However, I was born and raised in Mexico and all of my family is Mexican and they all live over there. We moved to the US a few years ago and when I have children they BETTER learn Spanish. I'm sorry, maybe I'm old school and this is just my opinion, but when I have children I would like them to be fluent in Spanish so they could communicate with all of my family (who don't speak English) when we visit them in Mexico. I feel like you are giving your children a privilege by raising them to be bilingual and bicultural. I understand how it would be different if you have family that speaks both languages, or if you're 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation and were simply never taught the language for whatever reason, it most certainly doesn't make you any less latino. As you said, there's many languages and dialects spoken throughout Latin America, but I believe the same principle applies.
JealousyIsMadness at least put effort into teaching them. My mom gets mad at me when she barely tried, as if a confused 4 year old would pick up two languages at once. On top of that, I grew up in the U.S surrounded by English speakers, so with 2 out of the 100s of people I know speaking Spanish would not help me speak it
@@peachy2513 it’s the truth, being Latino is not on our blood or DNA, is on your mind and heart, you learn it living in Latinoamérica, so you are not Latina and you will never be.
@@ximenatorres7509 Lo qué dices tiene sentido Ximena Aunque aveces nos podemos encontrar de vez en cuando en conflicto con uno al otro Como otras culturas
No sos latinoamericano si nunca estuviste en contacto con la cultura, el idioma (portugués, francés o español) y la realidad de los países que lo integran. NO LO SOS si naciste y te criaste dentro de una cultura estadounidense, por más que tus padres, abuelos o bisabuelos sean de origen latinoamericano. Punto.
Growing up I didn't know I was Latino. Because I didn't know who my father was and all my family is white I just assumed. So the only Spanish I know is what I learned from school. But now that I know you better believe my kids are learning both.
Reg Eric This is the truth. What makes you latino is that you speak a latin language as your first language. If you don’t, you are not a latin. It’s very simple. The USA has a hard time with this. They think it means being of Latin American roots lol
I’ve struggled with this internally my whole life, my Latino dad didn’t want to teach me spanish because my mom was white and now people doubt or judge my ethnicity. It’s very hard for me to communicate with my dads family. I feel terrible because every time I visit them they pressure me to try and speak spanish but I don’t know how.
I feel you, my mom is from Brazil and never taught me Portuguese and now I can only communicate with my dad’s side of the family since they’re caucasian and speak English 😩
Hi guys!! Im chinese, i dont speak chinese, never been in China, i dont profess chinese traditional religion, know very little of chinese history, but im chinese.
The problem with the terminology Latino is that if you want to use it then technically speaking, Italian speakers, French speakers and Portuguese speakers would be Latino as well. The terminology you are looking for is Hispanophone.
@@Luisofbrazil claro que no. Si solo la comunidad latina habla Español, entonces se de de vería llamar comunidad Hispana, los verdaderos Latinos son de Europa, además de que excluyen a Brazil por ser el único país de Latinoamérica que no habla Español si no Portugués.
My great grandmother wanted to “Americanize” the family by only speaking English. 11 kids later and with countless grand/great grand kids none of us speak Spanish. Which is bullshit because my job would give me a $350 increase every month! I’ve taken several classes but can’t get past the basics. 😭😫😩🇺🇸🇲🇽 #chicanoproblems
I'm taking up Spanish, Egyptian Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese simultaneously. Not that hard, it's only people not being diligent to keeping in contact with their own people.
No I disagree with this girl. latino also comes with languages. if you come from latin america and you can speak spanish or portuguese then you are a latino. english is not a latin language.
My parents taught me and my siblings to speak only English because they were afraid that we'd get bullied in school if we spoke Spanish and so now I don't speak Spanish and I have all these people questioning if I'm "actually Latina" and it's all because I wasn't taught to speak Spanish. I'm trying to learn now but it's a lot harder considering I didn't grow up around the language.
I’ll never forget when my poor co-worker was screamed at by another Hispanic person simply because she couldn’t speak Spanish. This girl was 16 getting yelled at by a 65+ year old woman in a language she didn’t understand, but you could tell she knew what she was saying. It was sad.
I’m born and raised in Colombia I came to the Us when I was 21 years old and for me, people born and raised in the Us are not a real Latin American, not as a person that for a long part of there life didn’t knew anything but what reality was living in Latin American Country. And I really don’t say this as an insult or wanting to be offensive, I honestly like them better then a lot of real Latin American, but when I talk to them either in English and Spanish I don’t feel like I’m talking with a Latin American and it haves nothing to do with been educated or uneducated, in my opinion it’s the fact that they have higher expectations because in a lot of cases there life quality was a lot better and full of opportunities (and than makes me happy, literally one of the reasons why I can was cause I wanted to kids(if I decide to have them to have a lot of opportunities )) So I wouldn’t be mean to half Latinos that doesn’t know how to speak Spanish (after it’s a pretty complicated language and judging by the families that I’ve seen here I don’t think that a lot of people really have the time to teach them and practice with them) Thank you very much / Latin Americans for seeing and supporting the new first generations talking for me I literally usually see you guys like what my kids could be some day and I feel happy and calm to see well informed people, honey people and kind of cold people but people that at least tries to be kind of warm
This is my life!!!! Being half white and half Mexican I grew up speaking only English but hearing a lot of Spanish. My mom's family came to the U.S. at the time when speaking Spanish was a bad thing, so she never taught me or my siblings. I wasn't formally taught until high school, and that was four years of being shamed by classmates and teachers for my lack of Spanish skills. Not to mention some of the worst Spanish teachers ever! I learned more Spanish watching Sabado Gigante, novellas, and Christina with my mom every week than I did the entire four years of high school. Now I'm past the age when it's easy to learn a new language, but I'm still trying. I've been using Duolingo and actually know more Spanish than I realized.
Helena Ramirez-Watson Mexican is not a race. Most Mexicans are mestizos, which is a mixed race that is a mixture of white and Native American. So let’s say your parent is half white half Native, then that would make you 75% white and 25% Native, so you are closer to being white. If your family came from northern Mexico, your parent could be less native and more white such as 25%-35% Native and 65%-75%. If this is the case, you could then be about 82.5%-87.5% white and 12.5%-17.5% Native, give or take about 1%-3% African. So you are mostly white.
I’m always told I’m not Latino as a non-Spanish speaking Puerto Rican. I’ve been learning Spanish more now just for myself and to speak with more people.
I'm Haitian. So I grew up speaking french and creole.I've always thought that us, as african descendants and non spanish speakers were not part of the Latino community. So I've made some research, everywhere on Wikipedia, and I saw that Haiti is a part of it. Latino doesn't mean spanish, it means countries and nations who's languages originate from Latin. they are: Spanish, french and Portuguese. and we share history together because one of Haiti's founding fathers Alexandre Petion helped Miranda and Bolivar by giving them arms, munitions and soldiers to fight for the independence of countries like Venezuela, Columbia, Bolivia and more. We are diverse and we should appreciate that
imo you don't have to speak spanish to be a real latino, i'm brazilian and i don't speak spanish, but i'm still latina (btw, i'm really tired of people ignoring Brazil like if we're not latinos too)
Alfonso Vargas I know that this is unfortunately true but I feel like this idea that Latinos are Hispanic is so strong that we feel kinda disconnected to other Latinos and just don't feel like we're Latinos too and many of us don't really understand what is it like to be Latino (even though we are Latino and I'm very proud of it)
I didnt even know i was Hispanic until i was 9. And only got told anything because i became obsessed with Pocahontas. I never spanish. And i started to get weird looks when i tried to join the latino club in high school. I left the club because i felt like i didnt fit in with everyone else speaking spanish. I got looks when i started working. Looks of disappointment.
You're only a real Latino if you live or were born in latin America. If you were born in the USA you are an American with your culture or ancestors coming from latin America...but you're still American....if you go to latin America they will see you as an American once they hear you speak English and also your clothes, your accent, your way of viewing things, etc. The only time youre Latino is when you're around ignorant Americans who don't know anything about your culture and they call you Latino or latina. What they really should be calling you is American. Because you are equally an American citizen as they are. If you really want to be Latino, learn about your country and roots. But not from the USA....actually go there and learn....and learn the language of your roots to the point where you can go there and learn in depth of your culture..... Culture is not what you look like. Culture is in the heart.
What the fuck! She makes it seem like her parents don’t speak English and she forgot Spanish. If your parents don’t speak English well, you have no excuse for not know your parents language.
My grandparents were born in Puerto Rico, making Spanish my parents' first language. My parents grew up in Brooklyn, and while they were bilingual, English quickly became their dominant language. By the time my brothers and I were born, the only Spanish we ever heard was when my parents spoke to my grandparents. Inexplicably, Spanish wasn't taught in my suburban NY school, so I never had a chance to learn it. I've since tried to pick up Spanish in college, in third-party language courses, and via podcasts, but without many opportunities to practice in suburban Boston, I never gained traction. Now that I'm older, I realize that my parents focused on English to assimilate in the melting pot of NYC, but I can't help but feel that I was short-changed one generation later. And yes, I often feel embarrassed to be one of those Latinos with very limited skills in Spanish.
Es gracioso que en el minuto 3:53 aparece una foto de Fidel Castro con la bandera Cubana el mismo tipo que hizo una revolución en su país para instaurar un régimen socialista que lo llevo hoy en día a tener un país extremadamente pobre xd no podía elegir mejor foto
Pero algunos gringos se denominan latinos porque sus padres,abuelos o algún otro familiar lo es. Si tienes familiares latinos ,tienes ascendencia latina mas no eres latino. Ser latino es hablan una lengua derivada del Latín o haberte criado dentro de un país latinoamericano(Colombia,Argentina,Perú,México.etc). Ustedes han deformado el significado para incluirse en ese grupo para ser "diferentes" o "exóticos". Solo las personas que convivieron con la cultura latina y vivieron en países latinoamericanos son latinos, los demás tienen ascendencia latina
I totally agree that if your did not learn it's your parents fault, but once you grow up is totally up to you it opens up so many professional opportunities!!!! right now I am even learning Portuguese and I know speaking 3 languages helps even more. now again is totally up to you!!!!
My mom was born in Peru and was brought here when she was 1. My grandma had spanish as my moms first language. That broke down when she started school. Then she met my dad who has ties to Honduras and they speak a different kind of spanish. I was never able to pick up the language even though they spoke to me in it when i was little. I use to feel ashamed that most of my family speaks it but i dont. Not anymore. I practice our cultures and I learn about our ancestors history. I feel more connected today then I did when I was younger.
I am Latino, born and raised in Latin America, I am fluent in both Spanish and English, you don't need to speak Spanish to be Latino, but learning a new language is always a plus, being bilingual is a great advantage in life, I recommend all monolingual English speaking Latinos to try and learn Spanish, but of course, not being able to speak Spanish is not shameful and it doesn't make you any less Latino.
I didn't catch much heat over not speaking Spanish, but in high school I had friends who were Puerto Rican, Dominican and Ecuadorian and for the longest time they thought that because I didn't speak Spanish, that meant I couldn't understand it either. Boy, were they surprised when they figured it out. LOL
CSharp I do speak Spanish, however, as I’m Brazilian some of the Mexican, Puerto Rican, etc people that I know thought that I couldn’t understand them and would say shit behind my back..... Welp, big mistake, I had to have a decent good level of Spanish before I learned English in America as my school taught everything based off the Spanish language. 😂
Si eres Latino, y no puedes hablar o escribir en tu lengua nativa... Lo mínimo que puedes hacer es aprender por una semana o más. He estado aprendiendo desde La Cuarentena y yo sé que necesito practicar más, pero todavía estoy felíz que puedo hablar algo.
Growing up and being adopted from Venezuela I always thought I should just stick to English because the rest of my family was white. The older I got the more I felt judge if someone asked me if I spoke Spanish and I said no, explained why, and got judged more lmao .....I got so much anxiety that I would avoid people who I assumed spoke Spanish in general because I was embarrassed. If I couldn’t avoid them (like during school) I would just act like I knew it or be like yeah yeah haha. I tried to learn Spanish but I felt like it wasn’t the same as learning from someone who naturally spoke it. But one day I met this nice old man while I was working and he was like good morning!! Wonderful morning isn’t it?? And I was like yes it sure is! And he asked me if I spoke Spanish and I ofc did my regular routine on why I don’t and he actually listened, didn’t judge me at all, and the one thing I will remember to this day is that he said “ oh I see! Then today I shall teach you a few words okay?? So don’t feel embarrassed or anything because you shouldn’t be!” And he started talking in English and Spanish. I was so happy and felt so welcomed that I could of cried. All these years I have felt rejected but this one man gave me hope. I have no started to relearn it and be confident of where I came from and be confident in saying that I don’t because everyone has different reasons on why they don’t speak Spanish! No one should be judge but be more open and be willing to teach them a few words or just something quick and simple. It could change their outlook on everything.
There was a Latino girl I met once. When we got to know each other in class because we sat next to one another. Slowly, I began to fall in love with her. The end of the school year was approaching, and then after our final exam, I confessed to her how I felt. But she rejected me because I am not of Latin descent. And she didn't even know Spanish, I told her that that didn't matter to me at all. I really liked her the way she was. What difference did any of that make? But I guess it wasn't good enough or peer pressure or maybe an identity crisis issue. We never spoke again after that. I figured that's what she really wanted, so I just let it be. Fast forward to now as it has been many years, I am not sure what she is doing these days, but I certainly hope that she's happy. Wherever she may be. -Onizuka
It kind of did happen to me. I was shamed in HS about speaking Spanish and even listening to music in Spanish. And I lost my Spanish for a while and for that I was unable to communicate with my parents for a while. But we’re decolonizing now and I’m speaking more street Spanish and learning my native Zapotec. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ you’re freaking awesome kat
I was born and raised in California by a Costa Rican mom and a Mexican-American dad. My grandma is also half Korean. And at my 25 years of age I can proudly say I speak, English, Spanish and Korean fluently. This has helped in a number of ways, like finding a better paid job and being more easily picked by my company for work related trips because of my easiness communicating. I do understand why non Spanish speaking Latinos exist and is every persons choice to learn the language or not. But I personally am extremely great full to be able to speak my parents and grandparents language ❤️❤️
I get shamed all the time for not speaking Spanish, typically by one of two types of people. 1) Mexicans who immigrated to the USA or 2) Caucasians who know Spanish. Very frustrating.
My grandpa was beaten in school for speaking Spanish and then was teased by his family over his nervousness when speaking it, and eventual loss of it. He didn't teach his children or grandchildren because he wanted to protect us from what he experienced.
I’m Norwegian, living in Norway, so Spanish would be my fourth language. Even if I’m adult, I still find a lot of joy in learning another language. I have been studying Spanish for a year now, and I have been improving a lot the last year. I still find interesting how American struggle so much learning a second language.
Good for you. You can never compare the US with Norway. The US has 330 million people and each state is like its own country, most with a bigger population than Norway and English is everywhere (Except Miami lol) while Norway has 5 or 6 million people and your population is heavily exposed to American media so English sort of comes naturally to you guys from what I’ve heard. Plus your education system is far superior as well. As for the US, many second and third generation Latinos never learn Spanish as they fully embrace American culture and many times, their own parents want them to assimilate out of fear of discrimination from other Americans.
My parents never taught me spanish and when I grew up, as young as 8 years old, they would blame me for not speaking spanish. My extended family and friends would always make fun of me or chastise me for not knowing. Even the lady at the taco truck wouldn’t serve me tacos. At this point I didn’t even wanna learn spanish bc of all the negative feelings and shame i felt. Plus since I live in a heavily mexican community I had to get a job far from my area bc no one here would hire me because I didnt know spanish. I personally dont relate to many latino traits so I dont plan on staying in my home town. Sometimes i feel bad for not relating or speaking spanish but i honestly get so much hatred for this that i really dont mind bc i dont wanna be in a community where you can pushed away for something so simple. Im not “white washed” or anything, i just dont identify with any culture.
I speak and understand Spanish fairly well. But when I mess up i get nervous and make more mistakes. Currently where I work there mostly Hispanic who only speak Spanish and i for the most part communicate ok , but sometimes for whatever reason I can’t understand them fully and I stand there confused . Many times i get look at like I’m stupid which really hurts. I really want to quite my job not only bc I genuinely don’t like it but also bc I feel like an outcast.
Yo argumentaría que no. Son asimilados. Pero no es su culpa, es la culpa de los padres que creen que asimilarse es la mejor opción, pero no hay evidencia cualquiera para decir que asimilarse es mejor opción que saber español y ser parte de otra cultura
True Latinos are from Southern Europe, all these people are conquered people with a language imposed on them. If you are brown and don’t speak Spanish, it’s ok because your ancestors didn’t even speak Spanish. Latin comes from the romans or the latins, natives are not Latinos. The only way you can be a Latino is if you are a person of Southern European decent. Remember blacks in the U. S have Anglo last names but that doesn’t mean they are Anglos.
Clorox bleach no, there are some who are of Spanish,German, Italian and French ancestry. There are more whites in Mexico than in some small European countries.
@@elpidiovillarreal6246 I'm not sure if u even been to Mexico but I've been all over North and south and I know most Mexicans are of native Americans decent people on my dad side oof my fam who Mexican they are more native
bmcu 27 Says who? Ask anyone in Italy....is a person that doesn’t speak Italian is Italian? They will all tell you no. Italians are from Italy. Italian-Americans are not Italians, they are Americans.
My father refused to speak to me in Spanish growing up. My grandmother tried, but we lived far away. Because I was blond and my mother is white, my father answered all my questions about learning Spanish with "tu eres una gringa" and "go away". I know this had roots in discrimination when he immigrated to the US and was made fun of for speaking Spanish. Still, it's uncomfortable feeling not Latina enough. Thank you for this video!
Buenas tardes, creo que ya es tiempo de descontar a estas personas que viven en gringolandia y que se llamen a cono quieran llamarse ese termino que les gusta "latino" solo ellos lo usan aqui en nuestros paises nos llamamos LATINOAMERICANOS porque vivimos en LATINOAMERICA o hispanoamericanos (si descontamos a Brasil) supongamos que cambiaramos el Español por el sueco y todavia dijeramos que somos latinoamericanos ¡puta que estupidez!, si el Español esta en la medula de nuestra cultura. Estas gentes pochas son tan pero tan guevones para aprender Español en su adultez siempre salen con: "Es que no me enseñaron de chiquitooo bua buaaa..." Puta si yo que vivo en CDMX quiero aprender ingles me inscribo en la UNAM, POLI; UAM etc y aprendo porque aprendo!!
En verdad son tan tontos que ni se dan cuenta que si son latinos (de lo que se enorgullecen) es porque una vez España, Portugal o Francia conquistaron los territorios de los países de los que vienen ellos, sus padres o sus abuelos (hecho que desprecian). Se sienten latinos y no dejan que españoles, portugueses, rumanos , italianos, guineanos, o ecuatoguineanos, en cuyos países también se utilizan lenguas romances, se sientan tan latinos como ellos porque no vienen de Latinoamérica. Estas personas estallan de la ira si les decimos que latinos no significa latinoamericanos, cosa que es cierta porque así lo dice el diccionario, pero estos ofendiditos, que no tienen otro nombre, viven en un mundo en el que creen que tienen el control de todo y la verdad absoluta sobre todo, y cuando les llevas la verdad, pues pasa lo que pasa.
+Gabriel Gomez Then speak Arabic. Even if it is arabic in origin, which I didn't know, it still isn't a native american language. And you guys are Spanish and Native, so the part of you that has Spanish culture is your white side. The language you speak, Spanish, is a white language. English is a germanic language but it's still English, not German. Your whole life is white washed, if you speak Spanish and have Spanish customs. If you don't like white people then stop living their culture and start embracing your native American ancestry, but please don't try to tell us that not speaking Spanish is white washing, could you be any more ignorant? Spaniards are white. Maybe the yanks (Americans) see Spanish speakers are Mexicans, but over herethey are Spaniards, and they are very much white.
The absolute worst experience I've had as a latina who speaks broken Spanish was at work last year. My manager told me, "you're not latina! You don't even speak Spanish!"... then proceeded to call me a puta, as if I didn't know what it meant! I burst into tears on the spot. I thought about how much my parents sacrificed as immigrants and how hard they worked to be successful, legal citizens of the US. Most of all, the discrimination they faced - discrimination they didn't want me to experience. Yet there I was experiencing it for the opposite reason! Unfortunately my manager was not reprimanded, no one even approached him about it despite there being camera footage with audio of the incident. I dreaded going to work every day because there was a big poster right when you walk in that addressed discrimination and how there is zero tolerance for it in the work place. It was a constant reminder that the verbal abuse and discrimination I was facing on a day to day basis was being ignored.
I’m a non speaking Latina! I work at a bank in California and i am judged daily for not speaking the language, although understand about 90 percent of it. People have always looked down on me and it messed me up for a while, I felt like I didn’t belong with people from my own nationality . I’m a proud Mexican American woman!
@@erensrightnut yes she is, a Latino and Latina is defined as anybody who has close origins in a Latin American country. You do not have to speak Spanish to be a Latino. So fuck off.
Don’t listen to the mean spirited replies. What you do with your culture and how to express it is your business, not some judgmental strangers on the internet.
I'm first generation latin American and I learned Spanish first and sure enough taught my son Spanish first. Yes we speak English at home too. Our spanglish is strong and I'm proud of it. Also am I wrong if I get offended when someone only speaks to me in spanish like I don't know English? I'm from Miami where Spanish is the main language and people speak to you in spanish whether you speak Spanish or not. Some people from other parts of Miami that don't speak Spanish get a little offending when they just assume someone only speaks Spanish and are hella surprised when they speak English
The United States, and to a lesser extent the world, is increasingly English oriented. Nonetheless, Hispanics proven to be the exception to the rule. The people in South Florida just are not English oriented enough to function in the United States unless their business is about their culture.
I’m Puerto Rican And Black And I wasn’t raised speaking Spanish. And like some Latinas I understand more than I can speak. My mom and aunts and uncles are Bilingual but I’m not and it sucks. My Abuela doesn’t speak Spanish but I wish I can communicate with her more. I love her so much, like so much, but I’ve never had a conversation with her without my mom there translating for me, I wish I could have that.
Yeah, I got this a lot when my family moved to NC. We are Brazilian and Dominican but I speak mostly English after 36 years of growing up here. It's hard to practice either Spanish or Portuguese now. Even the other Latinos around mostly speak English. The only time we speak either is around Blancitos. My parents didn't try to teach me to be fluent because they wanted me to be treated like an American by teachers and other students. So my friends and I mostly speak broken Spanglish or broken Portuguese. It makes me feel nervous that I sound stupid to other Brazilians.
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My relatives seem to think that Spanish is genetic.
It isn't. Language is TAUGHT, not in your DNA.
If you want your sons and daughters to learn Spanish, TEACH THEM.
Latinos are not a genetic group, it is a culture and one of the most important elements is language
@@eltecnico9541 That was my point.
Héctor Flores 2 yes, it is what defines being latin, is being speaking a latin language. If you speak english as your native and main language, that you evolve in the north American english-speaking culture, then you are Anglo, not latin.
Yea, I’m half Mexican because my dad and his whole family is full Mexican, but he never taught me Spanish because he was always drunk. People always are like “Um, you’re not a Mexican, you don’t speak Spanish.” Even my dads family judges me cause I can’t speak it. People say that to the point where I feel weird about saying I’m Hispanic or a Latina.😔
I sport this idea
Short answer: this obviously just depends where you live. In America people wouldn’t care the majority would consider you Latino because Americans tend to claim the culture of their great-great-grandparents. But when you speak with people outside the US, the 99% of actual Latin Americans born and raised in Latin America would consider you as gringo as a white American. Not a “real Latino” at all.
Love it or hate it, but that’s how it is. There’s your answer.
Agreed. I’m first gen American, & was always called ‘white’ when I was growing up by family members, tho it never bothered me.
I’ve always spoken English bcuz my family was learning English before I was even born, in the US. I’ve never been a fluent Spanish speaker
It's the realist answer
I agree.
Latino is a marker that references a LOCATION,regardless of race or ethnicity, therefore what "validates" a latino is BEING from Latin America.
If you're born in the U.S. you're a gringo that is descended from latinos,no matter how close you are with the foreign part of your family.
Also there's no sense in using nationalities to describe your racial/ethnical identity, Latin America is constitued off modern multiracial and multiethnical nations, you can only be of *said nationality* if you're ACTUALLY from here,otherwise you're just as gringo as any european.
Forget the question/ debate I always just can't stand how hispanics at my job come up to me in the us speaking Spanish to me or when I come up to them speaking English n they act like they don't ANY of it. I try not to be judgmental (what ppl call "Karen") but...how???Spanish isn't my first toungne (hatian creole is) but I had to give directions in Spanish the whole ride to my job to this lady b.c the app broke down in her ride sharing app n she said "no Englis". But when as soon as I get out she is like close app n close door. I said to her face now u speak English n she laughed in my face.🤦♀️
I said I was right. Most of them do it on purpose...n I even had a Dominican n Mexican hint tht to me. But cap 4 what (porque???)
@@thefreshprincessofeverywai4302 i screameddd!!!
la respuesta es no... si no hablas la lengua, no tienes lazos con la cultura y no vives ni has vivido lo que eso trae consigo, los latinos de segunda o tercera generación tienen otra cultura, pero ya no tienen lazos con Latinoamérica, lo cual no esta mal todos migramos y nos volvemos parte de la cultura a donde llegamos y creo que eso es hermoso
😢
@Juan Hernández bueno, los brasileños son latinos y no hablan español-
@@yurdebest Nunca hablo que el español fuera el unico idioma para ser latino. El portugués y el creole son idiomas en Latinoamérica.
Los hispanicos que no hablan Español son gringos. En general los chicanos son gringos, solo quienes vivimos en América Latina podemos ser latinos o hispanos, porque solo así se puede vivir la experiencia del tercer mundo
@@yurdebest Capo, Latinoamérica se llama así por los países que hablan una lengua derivada del latín, osea el Español y el Portugués estan incluidos ahí (también el Francés pero eso no importa ahora)
Latino is someone who was born in Latin America and speaks spanish/portuguese as mother language (or second language in the case of Native indigenous). This is not about genetics, Japanese descendants born in Brazil who live in the Japanese neighbor in São Paulo are latinos. The only US citizens who would be considered latinos are most people from Florida, where english is the second language. JL is a gringa who speaks a little spanish.
Anglo Americans in Miami speaks English as their 1st language
@@vernicejillmagsino9603 this is true, and the school system is in English, as is communication between different groups. English is the common, national language of the United States, every state as of 2024
I have been scolded by people. I do understand more than I can speak. I have had co workers make fun of me in Spanish and I understood them. It hurts to be put down and left sitting there at functions because everyone is speaking to each other in Spanish. I have tried to learn but it doesn't stick. Plus my immediate family spoke only English in the house. My parents were young when they had me so they didn't push for me to speak Spanish. No matter what I love my Hispanic heritage.
magalips16 i relate to this so hard
Omg me too!! I can't speak Spanish but if others speak to me in Spanish I do understand bout 80%. So its hilarious when ppl say things towards me and I come out with bruh I know what u just said about me lol
Same
Next time tell them to speak their native American language (obviously most are going extinct). Neither Spanish nor English are our original languages. Most are probably going to give you excuses, and that's ok bc just like you don't speak Spanish, they most likely don't know the dialogue or the tribe they even descended from.
@rudy melgar Spanish is a white language the lang dosent have ties to black or brown
I always felt bad for latinos who didn't speak Spanish because it's like they're losing part of their culture. However, I don't shame them whatsoever.
EDIT: crazy to see many years later how many people responded to my comment. Honestly I no longer think this way. Tbh I don't care if you see Spanish or not, doesn't make you any less latinx.
Vanessa, if you're going to get technical then our "real" culture is not the indigenous culture either. Our "real" culture would come even before that.
Na nican tlaca are starting to find our way back to our true history and culture... Yes I have some Spanish blood and am not ashamed of it but I am mexica not Spanish and will not start learning Spanish til I am fluent in nahuatl
Doesnt Matter nice, good luck... Are you finding it as hard as I am to find a consistent dictionary because of variations? I recently started learning classical nahuatl only to find that it is not really the same as what's spoken today
Talking shit about how the process of learning Spanish in the "new world" was bad doesn't mean a thing to all of us. Tons of Latinos have European ancestry because a lot of Europeans came to Latin America after the wars of the last century.
Talking about the "real culture" of language is very complicated considering the fact that in Latin America people has tons of cultures mixed: indigenous, European (who was very influenced by Arabic countries), African, and even North American because of the media and the amount of Americans who came in last century for work around here.
mari-chan I don't like to be compared with hispanic People, cuz i have My own heritage and we are not similar. I prefer be only called of brazilian over latina!
"Te amo... alotto" 😂😂😂
Not speaking Spanish is the worst, but when no one teaches you it's not your fault.
No... the worst is when people teach you, but you decide that you don't like it and that you don't want to learn it, so you don't.... Like my brother! lol
Of course when I want to cheese him off I start talking to him in spanish... 40 years now, and he still gets annoyed.
@@peterbanderas8184, that is why it is powerful to learn it. And getting books on
Spanish literature adds further power. The issue cannot be dodged.
Steve 900SPG , whitewashed?
Steve 900SPG , one's accent will always be noticed. It is not easy to sound like or close to a "native" speaker.
Uhm, you shouldn't wait for someone to offer you teaching ypu something if you want to learn it. It boils down to assholes that don't want to be bothered learning something new or having any type of personal growth
I'm Latino and I think people who doesn't speak Spanish is not latina even if their family is
Para ser Latino, lo primero es dominar perfectamente un idioma derivado del Latin y tener evidente cultura latina.
Being an Afro Latina who can’t speak Spanish very well is difficult. When I tell people that I’m mixed they don’t believe me because of my skin color. When Latinos come in all different colors.
Black Queen Light skinned latinos get the same..no one ever thinks my mom is from PR cause shes light..apparently you only look latino if you are tan...
😂I’m PR too
Thats very very real
Yup... no body ever believes I'm puerto rican because I'm so pale, and have light hair and light eyes.. oh and I don't speak Spanish :(
Bella Panelli I always say Puerto Ricans as being lighter like a pale tan, a yellowish pale/white s skin and light hair and eyes
Yes!! My parents raised me and my sister to speak only English because it was believed that if we learned Spanish too it would mess us up in school... I really wish I had learned to speak it as a kid first than try to learn it as an adult.
purplecat345 me too, I think my relationship with my grandparents and great aunts and uncles suffered because of that.
Siempre puedes aprender el idioma. Yo pienso que ser bilingüe es una ventaja enorme.
I was raised to only speak Spanish and then in school I would learn English. So now I speak both
Same. I was raised in both languages. I've always translated everything for my parents since I was 4 too.
Danna Gonzaga Exactly!!!!, I remember that my parents never taught me English, because obviously they don't know, they spoke to me ikn Spanish my whole childhood. I remember that when I went to pre-school, I didn't knew any English, I couldn't even say "may I go to the bathroom?", but at school I learned English, and now I'm perfectly fluent on both languages. También gracias a las clases de español que tengo en la escuela, puedo escribirlo y leerlo.
I am Latino and I speak Portuguese.
Brazilians are Latino too! Hahaha
But to be fair we understand Spanish without too much problem. It is quite similar to Portuguese.
It's because of the influence from Latin American Spanish. I have some friends who are Brazilian and we can communicate quite well. I've also met some people from Portugal who say that Brazilian Portugese is sing-songy and that Portugal Portuguese is aggressive in comparison.
That's correct.
Our Portuguese is more similar to 18th century portuguese, and we have a lot of influence from African languages (mostly Yoruba) and native languages (tupi-guarani being the most present).
But being a continental size country, we have too many different accents, some more melodical than others.
Estou aprendendo Portuguese Brasileiro em youtube :P Eu Tenho muitos amigos do Bahia, Brasil ! I hope i said that right lol I choose Voce!!!!!!
I'm not fluent in Portuguese even though I've had it spoken to me since birth, but I'm fluent in spanish.
Di lo que quieras disque latina gringa, pero si no hablas español o portugués, NO eres latino, y no lo eres porque el conocer el idioma es el que te permite conocer la cultura. Por donde le busques, jamas podrás adentrarte en el mundo latino sin el idioma porque sin el idioma, no puedes conocer la cultura.
Lo que pasa es que los hijos de latinos nacidos en estados unidos vivimos en un país obsesionado con la “raza” y el color de piel. Siendo estadounidenses nos acostumbramos a ver las cosas desde el punto de vista de la sociedad anglosajona (que es sumamente dividida por color de piel) y nos identificamos con ser “brown” (marrón, café, morenos). Hasta los latinos bien blanquitos y negros se identifican como morenos nada más 🤣🤣
Los que crecimos en las ciudades con mucha población latina (por ejemplo Nueva York, Miami, Los Ángeles, Houston, Phoenix, San Francisco, etc) solemos hablar el español con más fluidez porque hay prácticamente todo tipo de servicio en ambos idiomas. Sin embargo hay algunos que viven toda la vida acá sin saber ni papa de la lengua de sus padres y se sienten forzados a identificar con ser latinos por la sociedad racista en la que vivimos. Luego cuando van de visita a Guadalajara, la Habana, San Salvador o San juan se dan cuenta de que son percibidos como un gringo más el momento en el que abren la boca
@@hiphipjorge5755 si, es totalmente cierto. Lo que pasa es que acá en Latinoamérica aunque uno tenga sangre/herencia también latina, si esa persona no habla español o lo habla muy mal y poco, y aparte sentimos "agringada" a esa persona, jamás lo consideraríamos como uno de los nuestros. Como que acá hay mucho el síndrome del "malinchista" por lo que alguien de ese perfil no sería considerado como uno más
Eso raza de verda ni nos entienden pero ni pueden hablar o escuchar nuestra musica or cultura pero dicen que son nosotros.
exactamente
El español y el portugués no son las únicas lenguas con las que una persona se puede considerar latino, porque el término latino, en si, se refiere a todos los idiomas tengan raíces del latin, y acá no solo está el español y portugués, también está el francés e italiano, es más los italianos son los primeros "latinos" por decir haci, ya después existe otro término el cual es Latinoamerica (la primera vez que este término fue utilizado fue en 1856), y es utilizado para referirse a los países donde su lengua sea un derivado del latin.
I’m half Mexican, and my mother decided not to push too hard on teaching us Spanish when we were young because she feared we’d develop accents and peers would make fun of us in school. At this point I’d much rather have the accent.
I don’t get this reasoning since most of their kids aren’t blonde blue eyes, they still brown AF
@@user-hd8ej8yx9pit's because they'll get made fun of because they don't speak English right away and they'll put you in ESOL and that could slow make you repeat a grade
You look 100% mexican
I got made fun of ALL the time cuz "I'm brown but don't know spanish"
As I got older I learned more Spanish as I worked in a Mexican restaurant for 4 years. And even now I continue to practice my Spanish every day.
Shoutout to you love for practicing
Although I'm not Latino I've been learning Español for about 3 years and Português for 5 years.
Marina Flores well those people who made fun of you are dumb because Spanish is a European white language
I’m proud of you, fellow sister!
@@selenagomezacapella fr Mexicans don't remember they ate native Americans!
THISSS!!! YESSS!!! I always got A LOT of people telling me that I wasn't Mexican enough because I didn't speak Spanish fluently. But what most people fail to realize is that since I am Deaf, I already spent YEARS learning how to speak English through speech therapy. So when it came to learning Spanish, I would need to do everything all over again because learning how to speak a language you can't even hear... Hell no.
However, recently I have been learning American Sign Language and I found out that there is LSM, Mexican sign language. So I am going to take that up next. Super pumped that I finally I found some languages that I don't need to learn how to pronounce. Thanks for the videos guys! Keep calling them out!
Jessica Flores good for you i speak Spanish fluently but i have trouble speaking it sometimes. I also struggle with writing properly in Spanish for letters and any occasion when i have to write Spanish, but i guess that not everyone is lucky enough to learn their native language properly.
Wow what a journey. Shoutout to you for learning LSM. Just subscribed to your channel btw. Glad I met a fellow Latinx youtuber.
TheeKatsMeoww Thank you it means a lot! It's always nice to find Latinx UA-camrs to relate to ❤️ Keep up the amazing work! Can't wait to see more videos :)
Wow .... didnt know there is such thing as ASL. Thats awesome
Thank you, I am mixed race, half Spanish/Venezuelan and half Amazigh (Berber) Moroccan, I get this from both my mom's Spanish side and my dad's Moroccan side for not speaking Tamazight and Arabic. I am also slowly going deaf in both ears, like my right now has mild hearing loss and left ear has now 85% hearing loss, and it is already starting to get difficult understanding English with lip reading and what is left of my hearing, forget even trying to freaking understand Spanish, Arabic and Tamazight. But like you I have a plan regarding learning sign language, I am currently learning BSL (British Sign Language), then next I plan to learn ASL (American Sign Language) and then LSE (Lengua de Signos Española) and finally MSL (Moroccan Sign Language) which is similar kind of a mix of French, American and Tribal signs. It is nice to see another deaf Latinx who I relate to and who is like me.
I️ only speak some Spanish but still barely. I️ always feel ashamed being around others who speak Spanish way better than me. My family always reminds me how my sister is fluent in Spanish and not me but it’s not my fault her first language was spanish and mine was English:/
julianna graysweataaa I honestly feel this. I was born in the United States and my mom somehow expects me to be fluent in Spanish when nobody ever taught me how to read or write in the language. My sister, on the other hand, was actually born and raised in Colombia obviously she speaks Spanish the best out of all 3 of us. My mum constantly reinforces how I can't speak Spanish like she's even helping. Today, she told me to go to the doctor with her to translate but I know she only made me come with her so she can make me feel further bad about myself because she knows 100% I can't speak it. I'm so tired of her bullshit.
I'm Mexican and I hate how Mexicans shame other Mexicans for not speaking Spanish, they will ur brow u should speak Spanish even tho it's a white European lang .. and Mexicans are native Americans not white!
I'm Cuban, born in NJ but my mom and Grand Parents moved to the U.S. before Fidel came to power. Mom speaks fluent Spanish and English, my Grandmother only speaks Spanish, and I only speak English. I was never taught Spanish but am now teaching myself at 31 yrs old.
@@cloroxbleach848 de que hablas? Los mexicanos no somos nativos americanos, esos son los indígenas y no todos los mexicanos somos indígenas, la mayoría somos mestizos.
@@cloroxbleach848 Being mexican is a nationality not a race, I don’t know any mexican that can’t speak spanish. You are probably american with mexican desendance, unless you have the mexican citizenship then yes you are mexican, if you don’t then you are not.
I am latino, my parents raised me to speak spanish and now i speak english, french and portugues too. La que puede , puede!!
Albert Mora
why tho
@Albert Mora robbing them of opportunities and knowledge smh
@@kitteekittee4010 that's literally the opposite. Speaking Spanish gives more opportunities. Your mind is twisted.
@Albert M then you'll be raising gringos.
kitteekittee trump will never learn Spanish and he won’t be robbed of opportunities. Hmmm why is that? Oh yeah because English is the universal language and Spanish is spoken in the barrio slum of USA not the suburbs.
To be Latino you have to be have been born in Latin America and most likely raised there too. Like it or not, real latinos won't consider you one of them even if you claim to be.
Learning more than one language stimulates your brain, no more excuses folks. Teach them your (or your parents) home country’s language. And any other language you want, it’ll actually help your kids in the long run.
It maybe your parents but it isn't my home.
How many languages they speak in Mexico?
Yo mismo juraba que yo enseñará los idiomas que sé a mis hijos cuando los tengo
Eso es una promesa que yo estara despuesto a cuidar
I swore that i will teach the languages that i know to my children when i have them
That's a promise that I'm willing to keep
@@dennis771 Spanish and 67 indigenous dialects.
@@ximenatorres7509 Spanish is not native to Mexico
Preach! I hardly speak Spanish, but I understand most of it. It's annoying that my family members would make me feel like this, when I didn't speak a lot of Spanish around them. I've just learned that people are gonna judge no matter what!
Hope Pacheco I agree that was similar to me for not being able speak these different language to my family
@rudy melgar You do know Spanish is a White European language right?
@rudy melgar i bring up the White European language point because you said you "ain't gonna be whitewashed". Spanish is a White language like English. I too speak both languages fluently and people like us are blessed to speak more than one language but you or anyone should not be judgemental or harsh to those who don't because at the end of the day, everyone's circumstances, family history and life experiences are different. Is it more enriching to know your ancestors language when it comes to communication with extended family? Yes it is, but people shouldn't be put down or shamed if they don't speak that language. All it matters is that the person had a good upbringing, has morals, good manners, is respectful, humble and is an overall good human being. People can possess these qualities and still only speak English while being Hispanic.
The thing is... They maybe grew up speaking Spanish. For some reason, they had to move to a different country and learnt a new language, now, when they get together, they speak Spanish to each other so they can feel a bit more at home, and won't stop it just because some relatives weren't taught how to/didn't want to speak the language. Pretending your family speaks full English just because you don't speak Spanish is selfish as hell! If you really want to be part of the conversation, you should use your time to learn the language instead of bitching around.
#caradenopal
The answer is NO. Having ancestry from a certain country does not make you part of it. I am of Italian descent and never set foot in Italy in my life. I am not part of there, I do not speak the language and the truth is that it is very "patúa" and very disrespectful to do that. Do not pretend to be LATINOS, because they are not, they only have Latin descent and THAT'S ALL, period and it's over. It is even offensive how they try to take a place that does not belong to them and even worse, trying to SPEAK FOR LATINOS in the United States when they don't even know their own people and what really happens here in Latin America, is super disgusting, and believe me that MANY Latinos think like me. Someone has to tell them, enough is enough. and stop fetishizing us.
Estoy de acuerdo contigo, me parece increíble como gringos se creen latinos por que su tatarabuela nació en Colombia pero nunca han puesto un pie en el país, no saben nada sobre ninguna tradición y mucho menos saben el idioma, piensan en nosotros desde su visión americana privilegiada, estereotipos, tratan el "ser latino" como si fuéramos un color de piel, raza o tribu, piensan que las mujeres somos todas perras extrovertidas, calientes, fiesteras, que traemos a nuestros vatos pa arriba y pa abajo golpeándolos (ojo con la violencia internalizada) dicen que los argentinos no son latinos porque son blancos, si dices ser una mujer latina pero no eres morena, de baja estatura y de figura curvilinea te tratan de "fake latina" ahora resulta que tu wey sabes que se necesita para ser latino más que nosotros, no me jodas, y la lista sigue y sigue-
@@sofiaLopez-ck2oo Lo de “fake latina” no lo sabía. Están muy mal…
Es qué los estadounidenses tienen un problema de identidad, para ellos tener un antepasado de un pais te hace automaticamente de ese pais
Aparte de que ellos piensan que los "latinos" son una cultura, cuando no, muchos países de está región tienen una visión de la cultura y del mundo distinta.
Pues si quieres ser latina aprende Español, ya te imagino en las calles de la Cudad de Mexico sin que nadie te entienda y diciendo que eres latina, de risa loca...
En realidad ellos no son latinos ni se consideran latinos. Simplemente son de origen latinos pero no son latinos y no les interesa tampoco. Y no esta mal ni bien. Simplemente viven las vida que les toco.
@@anthonyyarmulenko7359 Al chile que no lo son, pero como sus padres son inmigrantes pues se creen latinos. Mi mamá es venezolana, pero como yo nací _y crecí_ en Costa Rica, pues soy tico y punto.
@@fabiangutierrez148 exactamente. Mis padres también son de allá y yo nací aquí en us y si me da la gana me considero latino y si no, no
@@fabiangutierrez148 De acuerdo.
@@anthonyyarmulenko7359 Latino no es una raza en primer lugar... por ejemplo si tus padres son rusos y tu te crías en un país latino lo eres. porqué no existe ni raza o grupo sanguíneo "latino", más bien es una cultura y estilo de vida.
Si no hablas español no eres un latino y nunca lo seras los latinos no somos un grupo étnico ni cultural solo somos un grupo lingüístico los mexicanos, colombianos, peruanos,españoles etc somos hispanos ya que somos del mismo grupo étnico y cultural solo que el termino hispano siempre se confunde con el termino latino mas bien tu pregunta debería ser puedo seguir siendo hispana aunque no hable español la cual depende mas de a quien le preguntes ya que si nos basamos en las personas que le han dado grandes aportes a la cultura hispana como Carlos I de España y V de Alemania o Cervantes la lengua española es muy importante para la identidad hispana.
Pero brasileños tambien son latinos y no hablan español
@@Jediguil claro, porque la lengua proviene del latín. No sos latino si hablan un idioma latino.
Nadie es menos latino por no hablar su lengua pero, en mí opinión, si realmente "amas" tu cultura haces un esfuerzo por hablar tu idioma (sea español, sea portugués, sea guaraní). Por otro lado, conozco muchos brasileños que no se consideran latinos pero ese es un debate a parte.
Totalmente de acuerdo contigo. Mucha gente por vergüenza, pereza e ignorancia no enseña a sus hijos el español y/o los hijos no lo quieren aprender por las mismas razones.
De acuerdo. Es que perderías contacto con gran parte de tu cultura si no supieras el idioma. Es como uno actuar gringo, pero nunca aprender inglés. Podrás saber lo que las personas te digan de la cultura, pero nunca te sentiras completamente identificado si no sabes de primer plano lo que es vivirla a través de la expresión cotidiana y escrita.
Puros Californianos aqui que no saben leer Eapañol.
Elpidio Villarreal En que momento hablé de la raza?
memosrt Que pena :(
You don't need to speak Spanish to be considered Latin. However speaking Spanish is part of our culture add something we shouldn't let die.
The word latino originally refers to someone who belongs to the cultures of the Romance Languages, that is, those peoples whose language, and culture derive from the language and civilization of Rome, which was latin. Among these Romance languages are Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Rumanian. Therefore, all Italians, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Rumanians, and Portuguese, as well as all those Latin Americans whose language is Spanish or Portuguese (an English-speaking person from Jamaica would not qualify) are latinos.
So people that do not speak spanish or portuguese are not considered latinos.
@Dragoslav Vega The Brazilian Nationalists
The word latino originally refers to someone who belongs to the cultures of the Romance Languages, that is, those peoples whose language, and culture derive from the language and civilization of Rome, which was latin. Among these Romance languages are Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Rumanian. Therefore, all Italians, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Rumanians, and Portuguese, as well as all those Latin Americans whose language is Spanish or Portuguese (an English-speaking person from Jamaica would not qualify) are latinos.
So people that do not speak spanish or portuguese are not considered latinos.
Matthew Hartley chill man...assimilation is a natural give
@Dragoslav Vega, Brazilian-American Nationalists But Brazil is a shithole, violent country, nobody cares about portuguese language, and english is important because is the language of pirates, you can sell opium to china, invade every country in the world, bombing them and kill the native population.
@Dragoslav Vega, Brazilian-American Nationalists As a Mexican, I don't care about your country actually. And actually if is not because of population, your country could not be as "great as you imagine".
Your country is only "importabt because" have around 210 million people, if they get the same population as Mexico, we actually becames more powerful and dominant. Also, no one really wants to learn Portuguese outside Latin America, but Spanish is the secoond most popular language for learning in Europe and the most popular forgein language in the US.
My family still shames me for not speaking Spanish but they never bothered teaching me. Go figure.
si no hablas espanol, ... aprende wey!
corduroy99 😂😂
Ahuevoo
ay yo no entendí una chingada de lo que dijo, ¿qué dijo?
Pues si siempre se quejan de que no hablan porque papi o mami no les enseño, pues para eso estan las clases de español, lo que pasa es que son guevones y aun asi quieren ser latinos.
@@ernestosalgado469 we already did, asshole
being latino it's so much more than having a great grandfather that once went to Tijuana to have dinner. It's fascinating how gringos always like to identify with a lot of cultures they don't belong to. Being latino means being born and raised (or at the very least raised) in Latin America. Even if your parents are latinos but you're a first gen US citizen then you're not latino, because you've never experienced what it means to live in Latin America. It's not that hard to understand. Don't be ashamed of being born in the USA and don't try to be someone you are not.
Exactamente! Me recuerdan a los que se identifican como alemanes solo por ser descendientes de estos jajjaajaja
@@Megatron-1 Wey, yo soy árabe porque mis bisabuelos que llegaron a México en 1900 provenían de Marruecos. Me voy a quejar de que no me llamen árabe.
@Juan Hernández Si los idiomas prehispanicos no derivan del latin, entonces como pueden ser considerados latinos?
@@rmoises8 son idiomas originarios del continente, no son considerados provenientea del latín pero forman parte de la cultura, ésto por la conquista , es una mezcla de culturas, los idiomas provenientes del latín son Español, Portugués, Italiano, Francés,etc
Jamas escuché ni considere que los idiomas originarios o prehispánicos fueran provenientes del latín porque no lo son por eso son considerados originarios, que tú digas que son provenientes del latín, con todo respeto, pero deja ver que no sabes nada de literalmente cualquier país de Latinoamérica.
@@acerolaarata3112 Nadie esta diciendo lo contrario, amiga. Solo estamos diciendo que las personas que no hablan idiomas latinos o viven bajo contextos latinoamericanos no se les debería llamar hispanos/latinos.
People forget that latin America is huge and we speak different languages. Being brazilian, the only spanish I know came from School!
To be considered a latinoamerican the languages included are just spanish, portugues (I don't know how to write it in english) and french, they are not too many languages as you say, because the indigeneous languages are not latinoamericans (because they don't come from the latin)
@@rfiscal1538 most Latinos are native Americans!
@Drago, The Brazilian nationalist Why some of you Brazilians are unnecessarily rude and hostile here on UA-cam when it comes to Spanish? I very often come across nasty comments like yours. I don't understand this hostility some of you guys have with our language.
@Drago, The Brazilian nationalist See what I mean? Nasty. How would you like it if I trashed your precious Portuguese and call it a retarded drunk version of Spanish and a stupid-ass gay language? Hurts, doesn't it? For the record I think Portuguese is a beautiful language and I even learned a decent amount of it myself. I know not all Brazilians are like you. They are usually very nice, polite and respectful people but like everywhere else, there's always exceptions. Congrats on your new president.
Why these american people call themselves « latin/latino » when in reality are from a anglo country and not a latin one, and they do not speak a latin language.
I would like to see a Kat Call on colorism in Latin American community. I look Caucasian and I get treated like I’m not Mexican enough even though Spanish is my first language and I’m a first gen American. Also I have friends who are Afro Latino and get the same treatment. Not to mention my friends who look Asian and are from Peru. We all get asked “why don’t you look Latino.”
This is me
I relate so much to this. I'm half Costa Rican and half Sicilian, and I'm pale. People have literally told me that I'm a "knock off Latina" because I don't speak fluent Spanish and my skin isnt tan. I understand most Spanish, I just cant speak it. To be honest, its created a little bit of an identity issue for me. I'm technically "mixed" but I dont look it. I wish people would just respect other peoples culture regardless of their appearances.
I believe she did make a video on colorism. But girl yaasss! Colorism plaques the Latino community. I look like what I am. A Puerto Rican. But I'm tanned and people say I don't loom Puerto Rican. I'm like.. what is a Puerto Rican suppose to look like? My mom looks white, my dad looks mixed, and I look indigenous. Our family reunion, no one literally loom alike lolol you got blacks, whites, mixed looking people, Taino looking people lol Puerto Rico do NOT have a "look" that is similar. It's not like Asians where you can kinda tell that someone is Asian... what part of Asia maybe not but Asian for sure. I feel like people who throws this hate out have their own insecurities...
Be loud and proud of your heritage! Even if you don't live there:-)
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👍you guy's every day story 😅
Why don't we so called "cat call" about how indigenous people get treated poorly in Latin America.
Maybe, there is a difference between a person of Latino (or whatever you want to call it)
descent and actual Latinos. It's not the same if you are a 1st generation immigrant than being 2nd or 3rd generation.
You don't have to be able to speak Spanish to be a Latino, BUT they are a Spanish speaking family so it is understandable that the family is ashamed of the guy. It is sad that many immigrants in the U.S. are losing their mother tongues.
my mom chose to not teach her last three kids spanish. my dad had just gone to prison when i was 5 (he was the dominant spanish speaker). so english is my main language. i can understand spanish, but it's very difficult to communicate back. my twin sister is actively learning how to speak spanish and i am very proud of her. it sucked growing up when other girls talked shit about me in spanish. but it taught me how to ignore negative haters. and guess what? regardless if i speak spanish or not, people will still see me as latina. and they ended up including me in their group anyways. i will always love my people and my family.
Your not latina because you didnt born in latin america you arent hispanic either because your first language isnt spanish
I am the first generation of my family that lost Spanish due to misguided notions that my mother's generation was led to believe. I and everyone in my generation were stripped of their Spanish speaking heritage encouraged by a bunch of assholes telling my family that being bilingual would lead to worse academic results. Of course, it was a bunch of white people that said that. Anyways, I am the only one in my generation that actually did anything about it and I learned Spanish and now speak it fluently. But I was so pissed off about growing up monolingual that I also speak Italian now, some French, and I'm taking German. Making up for lost time!
Daniel G Me too! I pretty much spent my entire high school learning Spanish trying to makeup for lost culture. The only problem now is I don't use it as often, no one in my house speaks Spanish a lot so I'm afraid of losing it. But yeah, I'm still learning and even picking up some other languages like Portuguese and ASL.
What did you do to learn it fluently?
Hi Mireya and Taryn! The first thing I did was to find a complete course of Spanish. I went through the duolingo course then started speaking outside of duo. I started using websites to meet native Spanish speakers and chat using the internet through Whatsapp and Skype. I found that there was a meetup group in Phoenix and I started attending Spanish groups several times a week. Let me tell you, NOTHING makes you learn how to speak a language better than being face to face with someone! So I still attend group though it only took a few months of boldly speaking, errors be damned, to get fluent. I also like to hop onto HelloTalk several times a week to speak to natives, even though most just want to text. It still forces you to use your new skills and you get helpful feedback from the natives. But speak. Children learn languages better because they speak fearlessly. Adults learn vocabulary better because they are able to focus for longer periods of study. Use both strengths and you'll learn quicker than you thought possible! Ok, gonna hop onto HelloTalk now! Hasta luego!
Daniel G Thank you so much. I'm using Duolingo now and I'm up to 40%.
Its always good to speak Spanish or any other language. I speak Spanish fluently, along with french and Japanese and learned a bit of german and Russian and maybe soon lean Portuguese :)
Kat says that Spanish was forced on Latin America. This is circular logic. Latin America became "Latin" only AFTER Latin-derived languages were brought to the Western Hemisphere by Europeans who eventually settled there. These languages include French and Portuguese in addition to Spanish. A more accurate way to put it is that European languages were forced on the native peoples of the western hemisphere which, to them, where the languages of foreign invaders. To answer Kat's original question: Hispanics who don't speak Spanish are most certainly less connected to Hispanic culture because language is a major component of culture. So a more appropriate question to ask is: Is it bad for people to be less connected to culture of one's ancestors? THAT is a matter of opinion.
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You got a good point their thank you
You got a good point their thank you
This is pretty cool.
Those that may be true, it's just a language. We're not losing part of our culture because we don't speak Spanish. Every language can be translated. You're right, Latin is a Language, but it's also a place. Many Latin Americans didn't and don't speak Latin. It's extremely uncommon, and I'm Puerto Rican. I'm straight from the heart of South America. I'm not losing touch with my culture. If it was English instead of Spanish, you wouldn't have said that. Many people like you are ignorant. We're not losing our culture. Culture is traditions, how you dress, what you celebrate and even foods you eat. A tradition and holiday in Mexico is the day of the dead. If Mexicans don't celebrate that, would they lose culture? Who knows, it's a belief. Just like this is a easy, and well translated language. Don't even try with that. Smfh.
I’m Filipino and Mexican, I talked too “white to be considered either for not knowing the native languages. My mom was discriminated against as a child growing up because she didn’t speak Spanish. My abuela didn’t want her to know Spanish. She wanted to fit in because growing up it was obviously hard being minorities in Cali. And being maids in those rich parts of Cali was a struggle. I never learned and after finally visiting my family in Texas I was shamed for not knowing Spanish and being mixed. I grew up identifying more with my Hispanic side because that was the community I was raised in. I love my culture and I will continue to challenge myself to learn the language. I can understand it more than I can speak it. I learned smaller saying and one worded responses from my mother and abuela. I still feel just as connected but still discriminated against by mi gente.
I feel u I'm Mexican and Italian
Noup. Latino is the one who was born and raised in LATIN AMERICA punto. Is not difficult. Being a descendant of Latinos does not make you Latino, much less if your identification document says: US citizen. Also
knowing the language allows you to appreciate and live the traditions and cultures. Growing up without living or understanding THIS is what doesn't make you Latino.
Exactly, it's not something that's in your veins.
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Joder gritalo más fuerte amix 🥴🖐️
then what would u call them then 🙄
@@ian-wv6mk you must read the coment again, there it is
Can she be my soulmate?
It's the parents fault everyone knows that
True. Im half colombian half polish and so until the age of 3 I only spoke spanish with my mother and then after that she said she just stopped speaking to me in spanish one day and then soon over time I forgot and now years later she makes fun of me for not knowing how to speak it :((
I don't really think they're to blame, in a fairness they were trying to protect us.
@Drago, The Brazilian nationalist the spanish language is awesome. You are telling people to forget a part of their culture
@Drago, The Brazilian nationalist we want to know spanish to talk to our family in latin america
@Drago, The Brazilian nationalist if you speak russian in front of someone nobody would care. You are telling hispanics to be afraid of their roots
You have a good point. However, I was born and raised in Mexico and all of my family is Mexican and they all live over there. We moved to the US a few years ago and when I have children they BETTER learn Spanish. I'm sorry, maybe I'm old school and this is just my opinion, but when I have children I would like them to be fluent in Spanish so they could communicate with all of my family (who don't speak English) when we visit them in Mexico. I feel like you are giving your children a privilege by raising them to be bilingual and bicultural. I understand how it would be different if you have family that speaks both languages, or if you're 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation and were simply never taught the language for whatever reason, it most certainly doesn't make you any less latino. As you said, there's many languages and dialects spoken throughout Latin America, but I believe the same principle applies.
JealousyIsMadness at least put effort into teaching them. My mom gets mad at me when she barely tried, as if a confused 4 year old would pick up two languages at once. On top of that, I grew up in the U.S surrounded by English speakers, so with 2 out of the 100s of people I know speaking Spanish would not help me speak it
Anonymous User wdym? If you grow up speaking both, you’ll be able to speak both
Short answer: No
Long Answer: No no
Lo siento, pero si viviste toda tu vida en E.U.A y solo sabes hablar ingles no eres latino.
people like you are the reason why the latino community can be so toxic.
Quien eres tu para juzgar quien es o quien no es latino !?
@@peachy2513 it’s the truth, being Latino is not on our blood or DNA, is on your mind and heart, you learn it living in Latinoamérica, so you are not Latina and you will never be.
@@mikhailabunidal9146 es la verdad, ser latino es algo cultural, si no vives bajo esa cultura entonces no perteneces.
@@ximenatorres7509
Lo qué dices tiene sentido Ximena
Aunque aveces nos podemos encontrar de vez en cuando en conflicto con uno al otro
Como otras culturas
No sos latinoamericano si nunca estuviste en contacto con la cultura, el idioma (portugués, francés o español) y la realidad de los países que lo integran. NO LO SOS si naciste y te criaste dentro de una cultura estadounidense, por más que tus padres, abuelos o bisabuelos sean de origen latinoamericano. Punto.
Growing up I didn't know I was Latino. Because I didn't know who my father was and all my family is white I just assumed. So the only Spanish I know is what I learned from school. But now that I know you better believe my kids are learning both.
Thats so real. Thank you for sharing that
Rachael Manowski sameee only difference is I just thought I was plain black
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Reg Eric This is the truth. What makes you latino is that you speak a latin language as your first language. If you don’t, you are not a latin. It’s very simple. The USA has a hard time with this. They think it means being of Latin American roots lol
Being Latina is not on our blood or DNA, is on your mind and heart, you learn it living in Latinoamérica, so you are not Latina and you will never be.
I’ve struggled with this internally my whole life, my Latino dad didn’t want to teach me spanish because my mom was white and now people doubt or judge my ethnicity. It’s very hard for me to communicate with my dads family. I feel terrible because every time I visit them they pressure me to try and speak spanish but I don’t know how.
I feel you, my mom is from Brazil and never taught me Portuguese and now I can only communicate with my dad’s side of the family since they’re caucasian and speak English 😩
That’s because you don’t have a Latin ethnicity, you are not half Latina, you are just American with Latin ancestry.
Hahah u ain’t Latino u don’t speak our language
You are an american be proud of it
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Hi guys!! Im chinese, i dont speak chinese, never been in China, i dont profess chinese traditional religion, know very little of chinese history, but im chinese.
The problem with the terminology Latino is that if you want to use it then technically speaking, Italian speakers, French speakers and Portuguese speakers would be Latino as well. The terminology you are looking for is Hispanophone.
Monsieur Africain This is the most correct comment in the comment section. Great job 👍
No, this applies only to people who come from latin american countries, not Europe.
@@Luisofbrazil claro que no. Si solo la comunidad latina habla Español, entonces se de de vería llamar comunidad Hispana, los verdaderos Latinos son de Europa, además de que excluyen a Brazil por ser el único país de Latinoamérica que no habla Español si no Portugués.
My great grandmother wanted to “Americanize” the family by only speaking English. 11 kids later and with countless grand/great grand kids none of us speak Spanish. Which is bullshit because my job would give me a $350 increase every month! I’ve taken several classes but can’t get past the basics. 😭😫😩🇺🇸🇲🇽 #chicanoproblems
I'm taking up Spanish, Egyptian Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese simultaneously. Not that hard, it's only people not being diligent to keeping in contact with their own people.
Unreal 4 Good you’re so cool
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No I disagree with this girl. latino also comes with languages. if you come from latin america and you can speak spanish or portuguese then you are a latino. english is not a latin language.
My parents taught me and my siblings to speak only English because they were afraid that we'd get bullied in school if we spoke Spanish and so now I don't speak Spanish and I have all these people questioning if I'm "actually Latina" and it's all because I wasn't taught to speak Spanish. I'm trying to learn now but it's a lot harder considering I didn't grow up around the language.
Now the tables have turned. Turns out it never made a difference.
I’ll never forget when my poor co-worker was screamed at by another Hispanic person simply because she couldn’t speak Spanish.
This girl was 16 getting yelled at by a 65+ year old woman in a language she didn’t understand, but you could tell she knew what she was saying. It was sad.
I’m born and raised in Colombia I came to the Us when I was 21 years old and for me, people born and raised in the Us are not a real Latin American, not as a person that for a long part of there life didn’t knew anything but what reality was living in Latin American Country.
And I really don’t say this as an insult or wanting to be offensive, I honestly like them better then a lot of real Latin American, but when I talk to them either in English and Spanish I don’t feel like I’m talking with a Latin American and it haves nothing to do with been educated or uneducated, in my opinion it’s the fact that they have higher expectations because in a lot of cases there life quality was a lot better and full of opportunities (and than makes me happy, literally one of the reasons why I can was cause I wanted to kids(if I decide to have them to have a lot of opportunities ))
So I wouldn’t be mean to half Latinos that doesn’t know how to speak Spanish (after it’s a pretty complicated language and judging by the families that I’ve seen here I don’t think that a lot of people really have the time to teach them and practice with them)
Thank you very much / Latin Americans for seeing and supporting the new first generations talking for me I literally usually see you guys like what my kids could be some day and I feel happy and calm to see well informed people, honey people and kind of cold people but people that at least tries to be kind of warm
This is my life!!!! Being half white and half Mexican I grew up speaking only English but hearing a lot of Spanish. My mom's family came to the U.S. at the time when speaking Spanish was a bad thing, so she never taught me or my siblings. I wasn't formally taught until high school, and that was four years of being shamed by classmates and teachers for my lack of Spanish skills. Not to mention some of the worst Spanish teachers ever! I learned more Spanish watching Sabado Gigante, novellas, and Christina with my mom every week than I did the entire four years of high school. Now I'm past the age when it's easy to learn a new language, but I'm still trying. I've been using Duolingo and actually know more Spanish than I realized.
Helena Ramirez-Watson Mexican is not a race. Most Mexicans are mestizos, which is a mixed race that is a mixture of white and Native American. So let’s say your parent is half white half Native, then that would make you 75% white and 25% Native, so you are closer to being white. If your family came from northern Mexico, your parent could be less native and more white such as 25%-35% Native and 65%-75%. If this is the case, you could then be about 82.5%-87.5% white and 12.5%-17.5% Native, give or take about 1%-3% African. So you are mostly white.
There is nothing more american that saying I am "half mexican". Mexican isn't race jajajajjajaja
@@fenistereinc.5797 “half Mexican” means you have one parent that’s Mexican, and one parent that isn’t. Whats the confusion?
@@Antonio-rh6np He is using mexican and white like a two different things.
@@Antonio-rh6np because he is saying half white as if mexican was a race when lotz of mexicans are white themselves,
I’m always told I’m not Latino as a non-Spanish speaking Puerto Rican. I’ve been learning Spanish more now just for myself and to speak with more people.
I'm Haitian. So I grew up speaking french and creole.I've always thought that us, as african descendants and non spanish speakers were not part of the Latino community. So I've made some research, everywhere on Wikipedia, and I saw that Haiti is a part of it. Latino doesn't mean spanish, it means countries and nations who's languages originate from Latin. they are: Spanish, french and Portuguese. and we share history together because one of Haiti's founding fathers Alexandre Petion helped Miranda and Bolivar by giving them arms, munitions and soldiers to fight for the independence of countries like Venezuela, Columbia, Bolivia and more. We are diverse and we should appreciate that
Dude! I’m so glad you said this. So many Haitian Americans don’t even know.
I was born in Chile and then moved to America and I don’t speak Spanish..Which is really sad because it’s like losing something of my culture
Latino es una cultura si no habla el español no eres un latino también.
imo you don't have to speak spanish to be a real latino, i'm brazilian and i don't speak spanish, but i'm still latina
(btw, i'm really tired of people ignoring Brazil like if we're not latinos too)
the same brazilian people say they're not latino
Samanta Vieira da Costa many brazilians don't consider themselves latinos.
Alfonso Vargas I know that this is unfortunately true but I feel like this idea that Latinos are Hispanic is so strong that we feel kinda disconnected to other Latinos and just don't feel like we're Latinos too and many of us don't really understand what is it like to be Latino (even though we are Latino and I'm very proud of it)
+Samanta Vieira da Costa First brazilians need to figure out what the hell they are, Before they start commenting bull crap in the Internet
But you still speak portugués
I didnt even know i was Hispanic until i was 9. And only got told anything because i became obsessed with Pocahontas. I never spanish. And i started to get weird looks when i tried to join the latino club in high school. I left the club because i felt like i didnt fit in with everyone else speaking spanish. I got looks when i started working. Looks of disappointment.
Sandra-Betty you're not latina.
iskandar clearly you didnt watch this. Video and are trolling. Just stop.
Sandra-Betty you're white. Accept it
iskandar ugh... Just stop dude.
white people can be latina!! Hate when people say that they can’t.
You're only a real Latino if you live or were born in latin America.
If you were born in the USA you are an American with your culture or ancestors coming from latin America...but you're still American....if you go to latin America they will see you as an American once they hear you speak English and also your clothes, your accent, your way of viewing things, etc.
The only time youre Latino is when you're around ignorant Americans who don't know anything about your culture and they call you Latino or latina. What they really should be calling you is American. Because you are equally an American citizen as they are.
If you really want to be Latino, learn about your country and roots. But not from the USA....actually go there and learn....and learn the language of your roots to the point where you can go there and learn in depth of your culture.....
Culture is not what you look like. Culture is in the heart.
What the fuck! She makes it seem like her parents don’t speak English and she forgot Spanish. If your parents don’t speak English well, you have no excuse for not know your parents language.
My grandparents were born in Puerto Rico, making Spanish my parents' first language. My parents grew up in Brooklyn, and while they were bilingual, English quickly became their dominant language. By the time my brothers and I were born, the only Spanish we ever heard was when my parents spoke to my grandparents. Inexplicably, Spanish wasn't taught in my suburban NY school, so I never had a chance to learn it. I've since tried to pick up Spanish in college, in third-party language courses, and via podcasts, but without many opportunities to practice in suburban Boston, I never gained traction. Now that I'm older, I realize that my parents focused on English to assimilate in the melting pot of NYC, but I can't help but feel that I was short-changed one generation later. And yes, I often feel embarrassed to be one of those Latinos with very limited skills in Spanish.
Es gracioso que en el minuto 3:53 aparece una foto de Fidel Castro con la bandera Cubana el mismo tipo que hizo una revolución en su país para instaurar un régimen socialista que lo llevo hoy en día a tener un país extremadamente pobre xd no podía elegir mejor foto
Pero algunos gringos se denominan latinos porque sus padres,abuelos o algún otro familiar lo es. Si tienes familiares latinos ,tienes ascendencia latina mas no eres latino. Ser latino es hablan una lengua derivada del Latín o haberte criado dentro de un país latinoamericano(Colombia,Argentina,Perú,México.etc). Ustedes han deformado el significado para incluirse en ese grupo para ser "diferentes" o "exóticos". Solo las personas que convivieron con la cultura latina y vivieron en países latinoamericanos son latinos, los demás tienen ascendencia latina
I totally agree that if your did not learn it's your parents fault, but once you grow up is totally up to you it opens up so many professional opportunities!!!!
right now I am even learning Portuguese and I know speaking 3 languages helps even more.
now again is totally up to you!!!!
My mom was born in Peru and was brought here when she was 1. My grandma had spanish as my moms first language. That broke down when she started school. Then she met my dad who has ties to Honduras and they speak a different kind of spanish. I was never able to pick up the language even though they spoke to me in it when i was little. I use to feel ashamed that most of my family speaks it but i dont. Not anymore. I practice our cultures and I learn about our ancestors history. I feel more connected today then I did when I was younger.
I am Latino, born and raised in Latin America, I am fluent in both Spanish and English, you don't need to speak Spanish to be Latino, but learning a new language is always a plus, being bilingual is a great advantage in life, I recommend all monolingual English speaking Latinos to try and learn Spanish, but of course, not being able to speak Spanish is not shameful and it doesn't make you any less Latino.
So, you are not "latino" if you don't have a language derived from latin as your mother tongue, in this case Spanish or Portuguese.
That intro was clever 👌🏽
I didn't catch much heat over not speaking Spanish, but in high school I had friends who were Puerto Rican, Dominican and Ecuadorian and for the longest time they thought that because I didn't speak Spanish, that meant I couldn't understand it either. Boy, were they surprised when they figured it out. LOL
CSharp I do speak Spanish, however, as I’m Brazilian some of the Mexican, Puerto Rican, etc people that I know thought that I couldn’t understand them and would say shit behind my back..... Welp, big mistake, I had to have a decent good level of Spanish before I learned English in America as my school taught everything based off the Spanish language. 😂
How can you understand but not speak? Idk that’s strange to me
Gravity™ it’s pretty simple wdym it’s like you haven’t learned to talk yet
CSharp You’re an American, you don’t need spanish it’s not your country’s language.
Tito Torres the US doesn’t have an official language
Si eres Latino, y no puedes hablar o escribir en tu lengua nativa... Lo mínimo que puedes hacer es aprender por una semana o más. He estado aprendiendo desde La Cuarentena y yo sé que necesito practicar más, pero todavía estoy felíz que puedo hablar algo.
Growing up and being adopted from Venezuela I always thought I should just stick to English because the rest of my family was white. The older I got the more I felt judge if someone asked me if I spoke Spanish and I said no, explained why, and got judged more lmao .....I got so much anxiety that I would avoid people who I assumed spoke Spanish in general because I was embarrassed. If I couldn’t avoid them (like during school) I would just act like I knew it or be like yeah yeah haha. I tried to learn Spanish but I felt like it wasn’t the same as learning from someone who naturally spoke it. But one day I met this nice old man while I was working and he was like good morning!! Wonderful morning isn’t it?? And I was like yes it sure is! And he asked me if I spoke Spanish and I ofc did my regular routine on why I don’t and he actually listened, didn’t judge me at all, and the one thing I will remember to this day is that he said “ oh I see! Then today I shall teach you a few words okay?? So don’t feel embarrassed or anything because you shouldn’t be!” And he started talking in English and Spanish. I was so happy and felt so welcomed that I could of cried. All these years I have felt rejected but this one man gave me hope. I have no started to relearn it and be confident of where I came from and be confident in saying that I don’t because everyone has different reasons on why they don’t speak Spanish! No one should be judge but be more open and be willing to teach them a few words or just something quick and simple. It could change their outlook on everything.
There was a Latino girl I met once.
When we got to know each other in class because we sat next to one another. Slowly, I began to fall in love with her.
The end of the school year was approaching, and then after our final exam, I confessed to her how I felt.
But she rejected me because I am not of Latin descent. And she didn't even know Spanish, I told her that that didn't matter to me at all. I really liked her the way she was. What difference did any of that make?
But I guess it wasn't good enough or peer pressure or maybe an identity crisis issue.
We never spoke again after that. I figured that's what she really wanted, so I just let it be.
Fast forward to now as it has been many years, I am not sure what she is doing these days, but I certainly hope that she's happy. Wherever she may be.
-Onizuka
Wow, sorry to hear that.
@@unreal4good367 Thanks.
It kind of did happen to me. I was shamed in HS about speaking Spanish and even listening to music in Spanish. And I lost my Spanish for a while and for that I was unable to communicate with my parents for a while. But we’re decolonizing now and I’m speaking more street Spanish and learning my native Zapotec. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ you’re freaking awesome kat
I was born and raised in California by a Costa Rican mom and a Mexican-American dad. My grandma is also half Korean. And at my 25 years of age I can proudly say I speak, English, Spanish and Korean fluently. This has helped in a number of ways, like finding a better paid job and being more easily picked by my company for work related trips because of my easiness communicating. I do understand why non Spanish speaking Latinos exist and is every persons choice to learn the language or not. But I personally am extremely great full to be able to speak my parents and grandparents language ❤️❤️
사랑소녀시대 where did the Korean come from....
사랑소녀시대 we didn’t need to know he grandma was half korean.. lmao..
I get shamed all the time for not speaking Spanish, typically by one of two types of people. 1) Mexicans who immigrated to the USA or 2) Caucasians who know Spanish.
Very frustrating.
My grandpa was beaten in school for speaking Spanish and then was teased by his family over his nervousness when speaking it, and eventual loss of it. He didn't teach his children or grandchildren because he wanted to protect us from what he experienced.
I’m Norwegian, living in Norway, so Spanish would be my fourth language. Even if I’m adult, I still find a lot of joy in learning another language. I have been studying Spanish for a year now, and I have been improving a lot the last year. I still find interesting how American struggle so much learning a second language.
Good for you. You can never compare the US with Norway. The US has 330 million people and each state is like its own country, most with a bigger population than Norway and English is everywhere (Except Miami lol) while Norway has 5 or 6 million people and your population is heavily exposed to American media so English sort of comes naturally to you guys from what I’ve heard. Plus your education system is far superior as well. As for the US, many second and third generation Latinos never learn Spanish as they fully embrace American culture and many times, their own parents want them to assimilate out of fear of discrimination from other Americans.
There are not that many opportunities to even speak a second language in the US because everyone speaks English.
@@nope6908 that's why the internet and travel exist. Duh
@@za.monolit Not everyone travels and everyone has their own way of learning.
@@nope6908 cool doesn't change my point
*v* moron below who dismisses his successful adversaries as "trolls" because he can't fend for himself
My parents never taught me spanish and when I grew up, as young as 8 years old, they would blame me for not speaking spanish. My extended family and friends would always make fun of me or chastise me for not knowing. Even the lady at the taco truck wouldn’t serve me tacos. At this point I didn’t even wanna learn spanish bc of all the negative feelings and shame i felt. Plus since I live in a heavily mexican community I had to get a job far from my area bc no one here would hire me because I didnt know spanish. I personally dont relate to many latino traits so I dont plan on staying in my home town. Sometimes i feel bad for not relating or speaking spanish but i honestly get so much hatred for this that i really dont mind bc i dont wanna be in a community where you can pushed away for something so simple. Im not “white washed” or anything, i just dont identify with any culture.
I feel sorry for you! U are white wash! And ur parents are at fault!!
@@Thelomes1 Spanish is a white men language dummy
Me parece chistoso que muchos comentarios sean de latinos hablando inglés ajajaja
Si es como el mundo al reves horrible contradiccion.
I speak and understand Spanish fairly well. But when I mess up i get nervous and make more mistakes. Currently where I work there mostly Hispanic who only speak Spanish and i for the most part communicate ok , but sometimes for whatever reason I can’t understand them fully and I stand there confused . Many times i get look at like I’m stupid which really hurts. I really want to quite my job not only bc I genuinely don’t like it but also bc I feel like an outcast.
Yo argumentaría que no. Son asimilados. Pero no es su culpa, es la culpa de los padres que creen que asimilarse es la mejor opción, pero no hay evidencia cualquiera para decir que asimilarse es mejor opción que saber español y ser parte de otra cultura
True Latinos are from Southern Europe, all these people are conquered people with a language imposed on them. If you are brown and don’t speak Spanish, it’s ok because your ancestors didn’t even speak Spanish. Latin comes from the romans or the latins, natives are not Latinos. The only way you can be a Latino is if you are a person of Southern European decent. Remember blacks in the U. S have Anglo last names but that doesn’t mean they are Anglos.
kingsmart1 1 thanks for not being an idiot like the rest who get offended and curse me out
@@elpidiovillarreal6246 right Mexicans are native !
Clorox bleach no, there are some who are of Spanish,German, Italian and French ancestry. There are more whites in Mexico than in some small European countries.
@@elpidiovillarreal6246 I'm not sure if u even been to Mexico but I've been all over North and south and I know most Mexicans are of native Americans decent people on my dad side oof my fam who Mexican they are more native
@@elpidiovillarreal6246 but I'm guessing your adding the mezsitos up in Mexico and calling them white
She has a point. Italian's are still considered Italian when they don't speak a lick of Italian.
@@matthewhartley4080, it's both...
bmcu 27 Says who? Ask anyone in Italy....is a person that doesn’t speak Italian is Italian? They will all tell you no. Italians are from Italy. Italian-Americans are not Italians, they are Americans.
Department of Motor Vehicles Italians in Italy do not view Italian-Americans as Italians.
Matthew Hartley makes no sense Italian is a language
Dennis Flo Italian is nationality and an ethnic group too.
This makes me feel better about myself, gracias
El video está mal.
keep lying to yourself, gringa
My father refused to speak to me in Spanish growing up. My grandmother tried, but we lived far away. Because I was blond and my mother is white, my father answered all my questions about learning Spanish with "tu eres una gringa" and "go away". I know this had roots in discrimination when he immigrated to the US and was made fun of for speaking Spanish. Still, it's uncomfortable feeling not Latina enough. Thank you for this video!
I mean what's the point of proclaiming that you are so proud of being a Latino when you don't care about the culture and the language of the culture?
Buenas tardes, creo que ya es tiempo de descontar a estas personas que viven en gringolandia y que se llamen a cono quieran llamarse ese termino que les gusta "latino" solo ellos lo usan aqui en nuestros paises nos llamamos LATINOAMERICANOS porque vivimos en LATINOAMERICA o hispanoamericanos (si descontamos a Brasil) supongamos que cambiaramos el Español por el sueco y todavia dijeramos que somos latinoamericanos ¡puta que estupidez!, si el Español esta en la medula de nuestra cultura. Estas gentes pochas son tan pero tan guevones para aprender Español en su adultez siempre salen con: "Es que no me enseñaron de chiquitooo bua buaaa..." Puta si yo que vivo en CDMX quiero aprender ingles me inscribo en la UNAM, POLI; UAM etc y aprendo porque aprendo!!
En verdad son tan tontos que ni se dan cuenta que si son latinos (de lo que se enorgullecen) es porque una vez España, Portugal o Francia conquistaron los territorios de los países de los que vienen ellos, sus padres o sus abuelos (hecho que desprecian). Se sienten latinos y no dejan que españoles, portugueses, rumanos , italianos, guineanos, o ecuatoguineanos, en cuyos países también se utilizan lenguas romances, se sientan tan latinos como ellos porque no vienen de Latinoamérica. Estas personas estallan de la ira si les decimos que latinos no significa latinoamericanos, cosa que es cierta porque así lo dice el diccionario, pero estos ofendiditos, que no tienen otro nombre, viven en un mundo en el que creen que tienen el control de todo y la verdad absoluta sobre todo, y cuando les llevas la verdad, pues pasa lo que pasa.
Sadley growing up my father always told us "we live in USA we speak English here" 😩 wtf uggghh
Native Bluecurls my mom says the same thing and she grew up in a time where speaking Spanish was discouraged in the US.
What kinda bullshit is that😂. I was born and raised in England and learned Spanish at home. Being bilingual is a great advantage.
Native Ladybluecurls same in Latin America!!
+Gabriel Gomez Spanish is a white language
+Gabriel Gomez Then speak Arabic. Even if it is arabic in origin, which I didn't know, it still isn't a native american language. And you guys are Spanish and Native, so the part of you that has Spanish culture is your white side.
The language you speak, Spanish, is a white language. English is a germanic language but it's still English, not German. Your whole life is white washed, if you speak Spanish and have Spanish customs. If you don't like white people then stop living their culture and start embracing your native American ancestry, but please don't try to tell us that not speaking Spanish is white washing, could you be any more ignorant? Spaniards are white. Maybe the yanks (Americans) see Spanish speakers are Mexicans, but over herethey are Spaniards, and they are very much white.
Thank you! I’m from London and my grandparents were born in Jamaica. Just because I can’t speak patois doesn’t mean I’m any less Jamaican.
Simone Oliver
same (from the us though), but i dont think jamaicans make such a big deal out of it like native spanish speakers do
sadly you are. You are British, not American.
The absolute worst experience I've had as a latina who speaks broken Spanish was at work last year. My manager told me, "you're not latina! You don't even speak Spanish!"... then proceeded to call me a puta, as if I didn't know what it meant! I burst into tears on the spot. I thought about how much my parents sacrificed as immigrants and how hard they worked to be successful, legal citizens of the US. Most of all, the discrimination they faced - discrimination they didn't want me to experience. Yet there I was experiencing it for the opposite reason! Unfortunately my manager was not reprimanded, no one even approached him about it despite there being camera footage with audio of the incident. I dreaded going to work every day because there was a big poster right when you walk in that addressed discrimination and how there is zero tolerance for it in the work place. It was a constant reminder that the verbal abuse and discrimination I was facing on a day to day basis was being ignored.
I was never taught Spanish and neither were my parents but they chose to not learn from their parents. It’s terrible
I’m a non speaking Latina! I work at a bank in California and i am judged daily for not speaking the language, although understand about 90 percent of it. People have always looked down on me and it messed me up for a while, I felt like I didn’t belong with people from my own nationality . I’m a proud Mexican American woman!
not latina.
@@erensrightnut yes she is, a Latino and Latina is defined as anybody who has close origins in a Latin American country. You do not have to speak Spanish to be a Latino. So fuck off.
Yeah u r not latina… once you type “am non speaking latina” it says it all. You prolly think that “Mexican” is a language, instead of Spanish
Don’t listen to the mean spirited replies. What you do with your culture and how to express it is your business, not some judgmental strangers on the internet.
@@spidercaln7893 is not her culture if she cant understand it fully. simple as.
Losing your culture always hurts
I felt that 💔
Yo se ese sentido
Uno se siente disconectado parcialmente o completamente
I know that feeling
One feels disconnected
Partially or Completely😔
@Juan Hernández
Pues claro
No a mi personalmente pero a los que no saben o han perdido ambos la indentidad latina y su cultura
Lamentablemente 😔
@Juan Hernández
Gracias
@@mikhailabunidal9146 qué es la cultura Latina ademas de hablar una lengua proveniente del latin?
I'm first generation latin American and I learned Spanish first and sure enough taught my son Spanish first. Yes we speak English at home too. Our spanglish is strong and I'm proud of it. Also am I wrong if I get offended when someone only speaks to me in spanish like I don't know English? I'm from Miami where Spanish is the main language and people speak to you in spanish whether you speak Spanish or not. Some people from other parts of Miami that don't speak Spanish get a little offending when they just assume someone only speaks Spanish and are hella surprised when they speak English
So English in Miami is just neglected ?
Why do you get offended that they assume you only speak Spanish? Because you're embarassed of your culture?
The United States, and to a lesser extent the world, is increasingly English oriented. Nonetheless, Hispanics proven to be the exception to the rule. The people in South Florida just are not English oriented enough to function in the United States unless their business is about their culture.
Ana Rosa not all of Miami certain part of it. Not in Fort Lauderdale forsure
I’m Puerto Rican And Black And I wasn’t raised speaking Spanish. And like some Latinas I understand more than I can speak. My mom and aunts and uncles are Bilingual but I’m not and it sucks. My Abuela doesn’t speak Spanish but I wish I can communicate with her more. I love her so much, like so much, but I’ve never had a conversation with her without my mom there translating for me,
I wish I could have that.
Yeah, I got this a lot when my family moved to NC. We are Brazilian and Dominican but I speak mostly English after 36 years of growing up here. It's hard to practice either Spanish or Portuguese now. Even the other Latinos around mostly speak English. The only time we speak either is around Blancitos. My parents didn't try to teach me to be fluent because they wanted me to be treated like an American by teachers and other students. So my friends and I mostly speak broken Spanglish or broken Portuguese. It makes me feel nervous that I sound stupid to other Brazilians.