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**VitaliyMurnov** · 12-29-2011, 11:05 PM

I understand that, but it what separates you from everyone else. In Colombia you wouldn't have to identify or say you are Latino/Hispanic but here if you don't identify as that and instead identify as something else how is that positive!? you lose a separate identity. It's enfuriating because I see this and youth really lose their ethnic culture.

LMAO, I do not want a FALSE separate identity. What I really am is TRIETHNIC, and Latino/Hispanic only recognizes the Euro part, what about my AfroIndigenous heritage and culture? Just drop that and really lose my REAL heritage for a false identity. NO WAY. In Colombia my maternal family are seen as AfroIndigenous/Afro-Mestizo, that is their identity and that is my identity as well.

---------- Post added 2011-12-29 at 11:10 ----------

It's enfuriating because I see this and youth really lose their ethnic culture.

BY REJECTING THIS LABEL, I AM ACTUALLY RECLAIMING MY ETHNIC CULTURE. If I identified as a "Latino/Hispanic" I would follow that BS American culture instead of my native AfroColombian Pacific coastal heritage. The US "Latino/Hispanic" culture CANNOT TEACH ME ANYTHING ABOUT MY REAL HERITAGE OF SOUTHWESTERN COLOMBIA AND NORTHERN ECUADOR. I talk to so called "Latinos" and "Hispanics" and cannot identify with them because they don't know nothing about Currulao, Bunde, Juga, Patakore, marimbas, and my AfroIndigenous culture.

12-29-2011, 11:05 PM	#7
VitaliyMurnov Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 449 Senior Member	I understand that, but it what separates you from everyone else. In Colombia you wouldn't have to identify or say you are Latino/Hispanic but here if you don't identify as that and instead identify as something else how is that positive!? you lose a separate identity. It's enfuriating because I see this and youth really lose their ethnic culture. LMAO, I do not want a FALSE separate identity. What I really am is TRIETHNIC, and Latino/Hispanic only recognizes the Euro part, what about my AfroIndigenous heritage and culture? Just drop that and really lose my REAL heritage for a false identity. NO WAY. In Colombia my maternal family are seen as AfroIndigenous/Afro-Mestizo, that is their identity and that is my identity as well. ---------- Post added 2011-12-29 at 11:10 ---------- It's enfuriating because I see this and youth really lose their ethnic culture. BY REJECTING THIS LABEL, I AM ACTUALLY RECLAIMING MY ETHNIC CULTURE. If I identified as a "Latino/Hispanic" I would follow that BS American culture instead of my native AfroColombian Pacific coastal heritage. The US "Latino/Hispanic" culture CANNOT TEACH ME ANYTHING ABOUT MY REAL HERITAGE OF SOUTHWESTERN COLOMBIA AND NORTHERN ECUADOR. I talk to so called "Latinos" and "Hispanics" and cannot identify with them because they don't know nothing about Currulao, Bunde, Juga, Patakore, marimbas, and my AfroIndigenous culture.
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