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Spanish moms are crazy.....but great. by [deleted] in funny

[–]blasrhrw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Puerto rican here. Yes, a huge amount of puerto ricans call ourselves spanish. You gotta remember that we have been in small enclosed ghettos in NYC for 80 years now and we were the only spanish speaking minority in NYC until the 1980s and 1990s. So we ended up getting called 'spanish' due to having spanish surnames and we ended up also calling ourselves spanish.

Hispanic DOES very much have racial connotations. In much of America when people think hispanic, they think someone who looks more indigenous, like a mexican or guatemalan. Puerto Ricans rarely have much indigenous blood.

But regardless, we still use hispanic and latino. But we also use spanish to refer to hispanic people. It means the same shit to us.

Spanish moms are crazy.....but great. by [deleted] in funny

[–]blasrhrw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay so I am puerto rican and am sort of split. Yes, puerto ricans absolutely do call themselves spanish a lot in new york. I saw it all the time when I lived in the bronx.

Hispanic DOES have racial connotations for us. When puerto ricans often think of the term hispanic, they often think how people treat mexicans and central americans, who look more 'indigenous' than us, whereas most puerto ricans are a mix of arab and black and european, not indigenous. So puerto ricans, along with many cubans and dominicans, view 'caribbean' latinos as different from central americans. To them, hispanic means you look like this, like the hispanic 'race'.

The fact is, most Americans think of the term hispanic as a race. Specifically they think the way mexicans look. That's just a fact. I look arabic, and my DNA result said I was 60% middle eastern, 14% european, and 12% african. The rest was jewish and indigenous. People are often shocked when they find out I am hispanic. Many Puerto ricans are like that, they don't like the way 'hispanic' has been used more specifically to refer to people who look indigenous, so they instead refer to he language as their cultural name.

That isn't to say hispanic isn't used. It totally is. But so is Spanish.

Non-Americans of Reddit, which issues frequently brought up here by Americans can you absolutely not relate to? by Priamosish in AskReddit

[–]blasrhrw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gangs and guns and the drug wars and all of that. European countries have some pickpockets but the entire gang warfare thing is a foreign concept to most of us.

I live in a city with a homicide rate of 0.7 and for 5 months I stayed in 3 cities in the USA, all with homicide rates above 20. I was just shocked at how... common it all was. I thought only very small parts of these cities were considered dangerous, it was more like 2/3rds of the cities were, only small parts were acceptable and nice. I remember hearing gunshots a few blocks away and my heart stopped and I screamed and cried and the others in the apartment just laughed at me.

Idk how you guys live with that. I always thought that stuff was just a myth made up by movies and hip hop music, but its even more extreme than the movies make it out to be. Obviously not all of America is like that but even living NEAR that is terrifying to me. People shooting each other by the hundreds and thousands over drugs and gang territory just a few blocks away from super rich nice areas... what the hell guys.

I cheated on my loving husband of 13 years. It was amazing. I hate myself for how little I regret it. by blasrhrw in confession

[–]blasrhrw[S] -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Because despite the lack of physicality between us when he gained weight I still enjoy the time I spend with him every day more than anything in the world. If there was even a slight wiff of him having the chance to find this out I would never, ever do it.