Racist???


"A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a man who has taken up border patrol duties in his own racist hands."

Since when are Latinos a race??? Heck the mexican dude who directed the movie is ..... WHITE

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Not only the director, it looks like half the cast listed on IMDB are white Mexicans. Reminds me of Spanglish where they had a Spanish actress playing a Mexican maid. I guess Hollywood thinks the audience won't sympathize with the characters if they're too brown.

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Hollywood? This is a Mexico-France co-production. They maybe white Mexicans, but they're Mexican nonetheless, which is the point.

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Most racists don't realize there are white Mexicans and do see Latinos as a race.

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Including the makers and marketers of this film!

And the racists at the pro-open immigration "La Raza" -- what do you think "raza" means? It means race.

why do the left insist Latinos are a "race"

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Race is more of a social construct than a scientific fact so it's hard to say why anyone thinks of any other group as a race other than that is what they've been socialized to believe. Why weren't the Irish considered white at one time? Why are Sicilians considered white now? Why don't white supremacists consider Ashkenazi Jews white? Why don't Afro Dominicans self identify as black? Why don't the children of most Latino immigrants to the US consider themselves white while most of the their parents do? Why don't a lot Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese seen themselves as the same race when most of the rest of the world does?

The fact is Latinos/Hispanics have been classified as a race in the US for a long time and that has nothing to do with right or left.

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The fact is Latinos/Hispanics have been classified as a race in the US for a long time and that has nothing to do with right or left.


In the US census there are Hispanic Whites. Typically they come from Cuba.

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Yes, the census now has white Hispanic as an option but it didn't always. Besides I wasn't talking about the census. I was talking about society. There have always been white Hispanics in American but a lot of people don't realize they're Hispanic because when they think of Hispanics they generally think of Mestizos. Hispanic can be Arab, East Indian, Chinese, German, Jewish, black, Italian, Irish or any mix of those different groups. However, that isn't what most people in the US think of when they think of Hispanics.

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Absolutely incorrect. And the ones border hopping are the ones with little to no white admixture. The criollos are the rich caste and don't need to sneak into the USA.

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I am talking about Latinos in general heck 20% of Mexican population is white

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