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FatDomDaddy -> RE: "The War" by Ken Burns starts tonight! (9/24/2007 9:27:25 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado
"...Over 500 thousand Hispanics served in the Armed Forces during World War II. Hispanics’ participation rate was higher than any other minority group. Hispanics earned more Medals of Honor per capita than any other minority group. There were thirteen Medals of Honor awarded to Latinos in WWII, eleven to Mexican Americans, and two to Puerto Ricans."
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ca38_napolitano/morenews/pr42007.html
What is your point? That Burns said they didn't?
BTW... as defined by the US government there were not 500,000 Hispanics. Of that 500,000 how many were of European ancestry? How many came to the U.S. directly from Spain or Portugal? How many came from the Philippines?
1) Spanish immigrants are not considered Hispanic when coming to the US directly from Spain or Portugal.
2) All Mexican or Spanish born people who stayed on in the US after the The Mexican War and the Gladstone Purchase and their descendants are not considered Hispanic.
3) Filipinos with Spanish surnames are not Hispanic.
Just because one has a traditional Spanish or Portuguese surname does not make them Hispanic in the eyes of the US Government and there mere word Hispanics.
Does one call all those people who descended from Europe, Neweuros? No. So why are all European descendants of Spanish and Portuguese that come from out of the United States classified as Hispanics? Are they not Neweuros too? Afterall, the Iberian Peninsula is in Europe and the people who come from it are Europeans.How about all the direct Italian immigrants to South America who use the Spanish verisons of their own Latin surnames, are they Hispanics? Do they have to prove thier kin folks came from Spain and not Italy?
Hispanic is a classification made solely by the United States Government and nowhere else in the world. Frankly, it is rather racist. Finally the film series is not The Civil War Part II (The World War II years). It focuses on four American towns one north, one east, one south and one west and the impact the war hand on them and them on it. WWII is a backdrop for those stories.
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