Has anyone thought about what the term "La Raza" (The Race) means?
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Interesting thought. Thanks for sharing.\nViva La Raza!!!!!!!!!
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Breeds generally race their own breeds.  They may be starting an Arabian racing club though!
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Why do we say that human's are of different "races"?  Seems to me we are all running at the same speed and heading towards the same destination ............. If I must place myself in a race, I am triracial, where would I fit?
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I think people see them as a supremicist group. And supremicist groups are no good. "Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada" Everything for the Mexican Race, Nothing for outside the Mexican Race. It is saying that they believe that if you are not Mexican than you are not deserving. I disagree with that. I am white and my husband Mexican (from Mexico) and there is never a way that I could agree with that, and neither would he. Cant we all just get along?
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Arriba:  above\nLa:        the\nRaza:   race\nPerros: dog\n\nWe have the "rat race" and they have the "dog" race
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It is Not a race.  It was a made up word from the 1970's.  Specifically by a Mexican-American Professor at Berkley.  Much like many of the phrase's "invented by the Politically correct","I wonder what ever happened to Donna Shalayla?"  It also has a great deal in common with words invented by Politically Correct movements in the Late 1930's and early 1940.  As well as the Late Victorian early Edwardian. Gentille Speak.  Popular with the Pompous around the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
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I don't think it's bound to just one race.\n\nBut I think crazies or\n\nPsychos--they torture the mind
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Every half of century of so. . there is one race that sticks out from the rest and gets the charge for worst race.  It was white ppl for what they did to slaves.. it was germans for what they did to the jews and so on and so forth right now its the muslism... in another few years it will be someone else.. that's just how it seems to me that it works.  dont know who's gonna be next but it gets worst and worst.
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Yeah, it means "long live the mexican race, you idiot."
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To me, it signifies racism. It signifies ongoing support of the Southern Confederacy and the way of life for which they chose to fight, that of plantations living off the backs of slaves. It feels to me like the person flying it is sending the message that they still support the south (in reference to the Civil War, not just fond feelings of home...)and wish that the south would have won the war so that slavery could continue.  It signifies a smoldering resentment that AfroAmericans are now free to mingle in society. I'm sure plenty others will disagree, but that's what it signifies to me. By the way, I am white, if that affects how you interpret my response.
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It's all a word game. One person's definition of 'race' is different from another person's. The philospher Ludwig Wittgenstein taught that all philosphical disagreements are caused by ambiguity in language. Some people think of 'race' as being the equivilent to 'species'. In that case they would argue that all humans are the same 'race'. Others define race as the outward observable physical characteristics, especially related to the color of the skin. People can say whatever they want. It doesn't make it true.
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http://alipac.us/article1148.html \n\nSome Latino Protesters Support 'Reconquista' Of The Southwest USA! \nPosted on Tuesday, April 11 @ 07:56:47 CDT \nTopic: Illegal Immigrant Gangs Terrorists\n  \nThe true colors of many Latinos have been on display in the past week of protests, and they weren't just red, white and blue.  \nThey were also red, white and green (Mexico), yellow, blue and red (Ecuador), red, yellow and green (Bolivia), blue and white (El Salvador, Guatemala) and red, white, blue and black (Anahuac).\n\nThe Mexica movement claims Olmec ancestry and aims to take back the continent from "racist thieving" Europeans on behalf of the "Nican Tlaca," or indigenous people. \n\nCloser to the mainstream is the Aztlan movement, which claims Aztec and Spanish ancestry and wants only the western half of the U.S. for "La Raza de Bronze." \n\nA leading Aztlan group is the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, known by its Spanish acronym MEChA. \n\nLike many other Hispanic groups, MEChA came out of the "Brown Power" movement of the late '60s. Its founding motto was, "For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." \n\nMany of California's leading Hispanic politicians were "Mechistas" in college, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. \n\nBustamante's refusal to condemn MEChA contributed to his defeat by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2003 gubernatorial race. \n\nAs a student group, MEChA tends to be dominated by immigrants' children and descendants, not immigrants themselves. \n\nBut the views of most Mexicans aren't far away from MEChA's. \n\nThe major players in the Hispanic lobby deny any racist motives.\n\nA leading Aztlan group is the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, known by its Spanish acronym MEChA. \n\nLike many other Hispanic groups,MEChA came out of the "Brown Power" movement of the late '60s. Its founding motto was, \n"For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." \n\nCloser to the mainstream is the Aztlan movement, \nwhich claims Aztec and Spanish ancestry and wants only the western half of the U.S. for      "LA RAZA  de Bronze." \n\n\nMEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- \na fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. \nAs such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. \nThese are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. \nThe current borders of the United States will  be extinguished.\n\nOther Members Of These Groups Include: \n\n-- Angel Gutierrez, \nProfessor, University of Texas, Arlington- \nFounder of the La Raza Unida political party - \n"We have an aging white America.  They are not making babies.  They are dying.  The explosion is in our population . . .They are shitting in their pants with fear...I love it. We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."  \n\n-- Fernando Guerra, \nProfessor, Loyola Marymount University - \n"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . "\n\n-- Jose Pescador Osuna \nMexican Consul General - \n"We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California." \n\nTaken From "Excelsior", The national newspaper of Mexico, \n"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."\n\n-- Cruz Bustamante \nFormer Lt. Governor, California \nBustamante's refusal to condemn MEChA contributed to his defeat by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2003 gubernatorial race. \n\n
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It means "Long live the race" in Spanish
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I wish we didn't have any, but I don't see how pizza got into your list. Why don't we call it NY style, the best in Brooklyn, just cheese please. Now the closest I can get one is Hollywood Beach, FL at Angelo's Corner.\n\nEdit: fatima b, I think I know what you mean but here's the real definition of race; 2nd Definition in the American Heritage Dictionary : A group of people united or classified together on basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: ex. The German race.\n\nEdit2: What is with the thumbs down? I didn't give anyone any.
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I think it is endless. In a country where all the people are the same race there is predjudice. Look at the treatment of women in Africa by African men. Look at the killing in Northern Ireland, the past wars between Native American tribes, the 20 million Russians killed under Stalin's rule, and the killing of Islamics in Iraq by other sects of the same religion. Some people, many people, (not all), just naturally look for a way to put other people down. I have seen a lot of self hate in my own race:(Gang wars in our inner cities). I have had hispanics tell me that other hispanics discriminate against them. I have seen white people put down other white people based on what state they came from. And of course there is the unfair way one whole race is placed in a "box" based on what some people of that race did or how they are portrayed on TV. I pretty much ignore people who are prejudice. I am guilty of some "pre judging" of people that I do not even know as well. I guess that means I am a bit racist too at times. Humans are ALL infected with sin since the time of Adam and Eve.
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Okay, this is 76 per cent guesswork. \n\n\nBased on my "picked-up-watching-tele-Latino" Spanish (that is, not very good), it means "little brown-skinned person."  I'm not sure whether it would be complementary or not.\n\n\nOr it could be someone from Moreno Valley, California, I guess (although I think that would be a Morenino, wouldn't it?).
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hahaha i love your question! we must continue to take over! viva la raza!