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Glava: I'm mostly Irish (on my dad's side) and Ukranian/Russian (on my Mom's; her parents left in one of the Stalinist purges), and the Anglo=white thing annoys me, too.
In Rocky III, Rocky's making a passionate speech, in which he refers to himself as an "anglo who held onto the title longer than he shoulda". For the longest time, I thought this was a joke; the olive comlpected, black-haired, "Italian Stallion" calling himself an Anglo. It wasn't until much later that I learned that for a great many people who don't know better, Anglo doesn't refer to just Anglo-Saxons but to any white person.
Puerto Ricans also get a raw deal. They're native born American citizens, yet they're routinely assumed to be Mexican immigrants or even worse, that they're immigrants from Puerto Rico, as if it's a foreign country. I once heard a Puerto Rican student arguing in vain with a couple of boys trying to convince them of this, they thinking she was deluded.
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I don't think it's rude to ask about someone's ethnicity, but arguing with them about it is. I remember Tiger Woods being criticized by a radical black activist group for saying that he thinks of himself as equally African and Asian American.
We should let others label themselves, and call them what they want to be called.
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