Why are we Latinos not considered real Americans by many White Americans?

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You know it's true especially due to recent events concerning American Latino celebrities. Back in September, a whole bunch of racist rednecks were badmouthing Marc Anthony because of his rendition of the national anthem and started saying things like 'deport that Mexican' and 'the anthem should be sung by a real American' and 'why is a Mexican singing the US anthem?'

Another incident ocurred at the AMAs with more racist whites tweeting about Pitbull and Jlo not belonging at the AMERICAN music awards because they were not 'real Americans'. Pitbull, JLo and Marc Anthony were all born in the United States and are not less American than Tom Cruise or George Clooney only because they also speak Spanish. Is that it? Most Whites don't consider us American because most of us use Spanish as well? Did you know that more than half of the US belonged to Spain once and was mostly Spanish speaking? I want to hear from the non Latino Americans why do you think some Americans act this way?

Mango · Accepted Answer

Some, not all, white Americans only see white Americans as real Americans. And I think they see black Americans as real Americans too.. but everyone else (Asians, Latinos, Middle Easterners, recently immigrated Europeans, Africans, etc), they won't see as being real probably because we bring a culture with us that is foreign to them. They forget that the only criteria to being American is being born in America or having American citizenship.

? · Answer

The ones who do this are uneducated and assume all persons of Latino/Hispanic origin are Mexican. Marc Anthony is Puerto Rican, not Mexican.

Anonymous · Answer

Any person(regardless of race,ethnicity or ancestral orgins)that's physically born in the U.S.A. is automatically an American(by U.S.A. laws).As far as I know the only true authentic & native peoples of the western hemisphere are the American Indians.The term "true American" is irrelevant since diverse people view that term in diverse manners and not all will embrace the same views,depending on who you speak to.As far as Latinos speaking Spanish,and as a result not being considered "true Americans",that completely doesn't make any valid sense since Spanish in itself is a White language that originated in Spain(Europe),much like English is a White language and originated in Britain(Europe).The FIRST Whites explorers & colonizers of the lands that would later become the U.S.A.(entire South  West & Florida)were Spaniards whom spoke Spanish.The Spanish language in itself is ingrained in U.S.A.'s history & state & city names,thus Spanish is not alien to the U.S.A.

Anonymous · Answer

Come to Miami, we have a lot of hot latino men from every spanish speaking country in the world. AND the gay community here is Awesome!

Hannah · Answer

Because some white Americans feel that only white-English speaking people are the "true" Americans. Notice how white Americans are the only group of people not to have some sort of adjective describing their race/ethnicity, such as Latino Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, etc, etc.

Anonymous · Answer

I saw your last question, im brazilian (so i speak portuguease) and im trying to learn english, so if you want talk with me to get your portuguease better (like you said), send a message for me in my yahoo profile.

Anonymous · Answer

Because  white people are the most ignorent citizens in the united states they really dont know much about what citizen of america means or about geography and culture, not every single one but most dont

? · Answer

that's usually the racist conservatives.

if you're not white than your not American.

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