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The Hispanic Paradox

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Jipan said:
EDIT: I forgot to add, that one thing that I hate about Hollywood is that they'll have an actor of one ethnicity play a character of another ethnicity. Zoe Saldaña a Dominican actress played a Colombian woman in Colombiana(which I never saw and refuse to see); that gets on my nerves. I'm sure Colombians must have been outraged too; they could have gotten Sofia Vergara for the role instead.
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I don't have a problem with it. I don't see Sofia Vergara in that role. At all.
 
Decided to look up the cast of Red Tails (saw it recently) to see if there was any hispanic cast members in there.

Tristan Wilds Was born of an African American father and African-American, Irish, and Dominican mother.

Andre Royo Royo was born of African American and Cuban heritage.

http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/features/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003713761

Same thing as others in that documentary, Getting told he is not black enough or not latin enough.

Kaori's Babydaddy said:
Hispanic and Asian? That's a combo I've never seen before. Wonder what that looks like.
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A lot of my South American friends actually naturally look like a mix of hispanic and asian.
 
Kaori's Babydaddy said:
Hispanic and Asian? That's a combo I've never seen before. Wonder what that looks like.
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Every single half asian/half hispanic woman I've met have been pretty hot, though sometimes you can't really tell. Also there are plenty of Asians who are technically Hispanic like Harry Shum. Hispanics are pretty diverse looks wise since there's not really an "Hispanic Race".


yencid said:
Decided to look up the cast of Red Tails (saw it recently) to see if there was any hispanic cast members in there.

Tristan Wilds Was born of an African American father and African-American, Irish, and Dominican mother.

Andre Royo Royo was born of African American and Cuban heritage.
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Oh Bubbles is in Red Tails? :D I gotta see it now.
 
Kaori's Babydaddy said:
Hispanic and Asian? That's a combo I've never seen before. Wonder what that looks like.
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There's actually a decent contingent of Chinese-Cubans in Cuba. My grandmother is one for instance (though she just looks straight up Chinese).

random pic of a Chinese-Cuban:
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dabig2 said:
There's actually a decent contingent of Chinese-Cubans in Cuba. My grandmother is one for instance (though she just looks straight up Chinese).

random pic of a Chinese-Cuban:
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esa morra tiene bigote. no mames.
 
wenis said:
It must be the warm 7up we drink when we get sick. I hear it's the bubbles that really helps.
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I don't think that's a Hispanic thing. My family is white through and through, but my parents did this.

Also 7up or ginger ale mixed with ice cream. I don't even.

edit: wait what. 2010?
 
Regulus Tera said:
lol ¿nunca viste al Chavo del Ocho?

omg seriously we need HispaniGAF back
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pues si. no soy tan pocho.

and yes we need hispaniGAF back. Evilore, el compa, needs to give us the green light for the hispani-GAF thread.
 
Kaori's Babydaddy said:
I wanted to ask this because I was curious about the subject of colorism in the Hispanic population As a black man I'm well aware of it in the black community and have experience with it. I was wondering if there is the same issue within the Hispanic community. I'm not sure if this is related to colorism or if it's more of racism, but I have noticed that just about all the famous Hispanics that I can name here in America are of lighter skin. The two exceptions I can think of George Lopez and this guy I don't know his name, but I've seen him appear in a few movies. They weren't movies that I were interested in so that's why I don't know his name, but anyway why are most of these Hispanics I see on tv are of the lighter tone?
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It's not just in the US either. If you go Mexico, 90 percent(i made that up) of their news anchors and actors are light skin. It really doesn't make sense to me and honestly makes me a little mad.
 
ghostofsparta said:
It's not just in the US either. If you go Mexico, 90 percent(i made that up) of their news anchors and actors are light skin. It really doesn't make sense to me and honestly makes me a little mad.
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What do you mean by lighter skin? Like colored eyes instead of brown eyes?

There's many lighter skin Mexicans but you can usually tell that these actors, or news anchors are not exactly Mexican by their last name. For example, I'm a lighter skin Mexican, people sometimes think I'm mixed, but I have a Mexican last name. The more successful Mexicans that are on TV usually have foreign last names(chilangos), like Carlos Loret de Mola, Zuckerman, Jacobo Zabludosky. They are definitely Mexican but their race is not Mexican.

I know I'm not making much sense, I apologize.
 
maxxpower said:
What do you mean by lighter skin? Like colored eyes instead of brown eyes?

There's many lighter skin Mexicans but you can usually tell that these actors, or news anchors are not exactly Mexican by their last name. For example, I'm a lighter skin Mexican, people sometimes think I'm mixed, but I have a Mexican last name. The more successful Mexicans that are on TV usually have foreign last names(chilangos), like Carlos Loret de Mola, Zuckerman, Jacobo Zabludosky. They are definitely Mexican but their race is not Mexican.

I know I'm not making much sense, I apologize.
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Sometimes the eyes but I was mainly talking about skin color.

And yeah I get what you mean. There's a lot of other European races in Mexico from back in the day and they mixed with Mexicans. I just don't like how they're the ones who are on TV and no dark skin people who make up the majority of the population.

Also aren't chilangos people from Mexico City?
 
Goya said:
This might be old news to many, but I had never heard of it.

The Hispanic Paradox: U.S. Hispanics Live Longer, Despite Socio-Economic Hurdles



Data on Hispanic Immigrants Presents Puzzle on Aging



This is very interesting to me, because we usually assume that socioeconomic variables like access to health care, level of education, and income almost fully determine one's life expectancy. But for a lot of Hispanics, that really isn't the case. A lot of them live long, happy lives and prove themselves to be resilient in the face of chronic diseases, despite scoring low on all these socioeconomic measures. This is even stranger because Latin Americans living in their native countries aren't very healthy on average.

Could it be that familialism and religiousness, major parts of Hispanic culture, are actually good for your health? If Latin American countries weren't so poor and dangerous (high crime and violence rates lowering life expectancy rates), would the positive effects of these cultural features really stand out?
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We live longer because we deal with this everyday.

Also I'm taking a class and just had a test today dealing with this kind of stuff and Latin American life expectancies are around the same or barely less than the United States in many cases.

EDIT: crap this thread is old...
 
Maybe it's the beans, tortillas, and eggs. I certainly seem to eat that very other day.

My parents also seem to put A LOT of salt in their food and I mean A LOT. I think we are genetically accustomed to high salt intake. Or is that just my family?
 
viciouskillersquirrel said:
An environment like that tends to toughen up the constitution (have you ever seen a Latino child with an athsma puffer?).
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Puerto Ricans have asthma more frequently that other hispanic groups or non-hispanic whites. So I would assume there are Latino children with inhalers. But to answer your question, no I can't recall seeing any, or any white or black, or Asian children with them either.

And as someone noted, the life expectancy in Mexico is not nearly as high, so the paradox must be something beyond only the genetic explanation, maybe something also psycho-social. I'd like to see Hispanic life expectancy vs Asian American life expectancy. I think it would be informative to see it broken down by gender as well.
 
The Lamp said:
We live longer because we deal with this everyday.

Also I'm taking a class and just had a test today dealing with this kind of stuff and Latin American life expectancies are around the same or barely less than the United States in many cases.

EDIT: crap this thread is old...
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OMG at that video
 
Goya said:
Could it be that familialism and religiousness, major parts of Hispanic culture, are actually good for your health? If Latin American countries weren't so poor and dangerous (high crime and violence rates lowering life expectancy rates), would the positive effects of these cultural features really stand out?
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It has everything to do with the daily exercise the average immigrant is exposed to while working. It will add years to your life span, the UK did a study on this with their bus drivers and ticket takers. The ticket tackers lived slightly longer because they stood and walked while they worked.
 
maxxpower said:
What do you mean by lighter skin? Like colored eyes instead of brown eyes?

There's many lighter skin Mexicans but you can usually tell that these actors, or news anchors are not exactly Mexican by their last name. For example, I'm a lighter skin Mexican, people sometimes think I'm mixed, but I have a Mexican last name. The more successful Mexicans that are on TV usually have foreign last names(chilangos), like Carlos Loret de Mola, Zuckerman, Jacobo Zabludosky. They are definitely Mexican but their race is not Mexican.

I know I'm not making much sense, I apologize.
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There's a "Mexican race"? :o

Unless you mean the original indigenous peoples that doesn't make any sense to me.
 
Random-ass question loosely tied to the thread :

Both my parents are portuguese, if I come over to the US do I turn into a latino or do I stay white?
 
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