A Question about Hispanics

Why is it that Puerto Ricans get so offended if someone calls them a Mexican?

Originally posted by Ozone
Why is it that Puerto Ricans get so offended if someone calls them a Mexican?

maybe because there not Mexican? 😕

Originally posted by Ozone
Why is it that Puerto Ricans get so offended if someone calls them a Mexican?

That's a good question.

I used to get offended when people would call me Mexican because I am Italian and proud of it. That was before highschool. Now, I wouldn't be offended to be called Mexican. Hell, my wife is half Mexican. (Her mamma is full blood...born in Mexico.)

So back to the question, why do Puerto Ricans get offended when they are mistook for Mexicans? It isn't a big deal at all.

Ah. Well then I guess the big mystery is, who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?

i know people whom get offended when they are offered pepsi instead of coke. People just get offended

Originally posted by Ozone
Why is it that Puerto Ricans get so offended if someone calls them a Mexican?

Because they value their own culture and feel it to be insulting that it's grouped in with another, because of some similarities.

the correct insult for a Puerto Rican would be "spic."

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
the correct insult for a Puerto Rican would be "spic."

Really? Explain that because Carlos Mencia uses that for any Latino.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Really? Explain that because Carlos Mencia uses that for any Latino.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
it an be used for any hispanic. but you cant very well call a colombian or cuban a mexican, nor a puerto rican, can you?

Sooo....how does that explain why you say that Spic is used for Puerto Ricans?

Let me give you an example of what I am looking for:

Cracker is a term used to describe white people because they are slave drivers cracking a whip...hence "cracker".

Do you see what I mean now?

I found what I was looking for. It is a shortened term for the word Hispanic. In the same vein of calling a Japanese person a "Jap". Though they are not really offensive words by their definitions, it is the intention of the use of those words that makes them offensive.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Sooo....how does that explain why you say that Spic is used for Puerto Ricans?

Let me give you an example of what I am looking for:

Cracker is a term used to describe white people because they are slave drivers cracking a whip...hence "cracker".

Do you see what I mean now?

I found what I was looking for. It is a shortened term for the word Hispanic. In the same vein of calling a Japanese person a "Jap". Though they are not really offensive words by their definitions, it is the intention of the use of those words that makes them offensive.

I am just going on what I catch here and there.

cracker. 😆

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
well, I am not an expert, I try not to use the words.

I am just going on what I catch here and there.

cracker. 😆

😄

wait wait wait...I mean.. 😠

Originally posted by Ozone
Why is it that Puerto Ricans get so offended if someone calls them a Mexican?

Because Puerto Rico is a completely different country, you moron.

Originally posted by Ozone
Why is it that Puerto Ricans get so offended if someone calls them a Mexican?

Originally posted by dadudemon
Really? Explain that because Carlos Mencia uses that for any Latino.

Because it is.

Mencia often calls himself Mexican. Reason being: no one cares about Honduras.

so what would be slang for a Honduran?

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
the correct insult for a Puerto Rican would be "spic."

I used to be called that at school because of my dark hair and good looks.

Didn´t bother me, the black and smart ass lads got it worse.

people called me John all the time in school. how dare they.

I know a chick from Honduras. If you call her a Mexican she'll b!tch slap you.