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computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP
American Racism is actually fairly similar to the Spanish imperial form of it (at least in Mexico et all), where your "race" was determined more by the money and power you had than specifically how much of your lineage was (e.g.) black (even though there was a de jure racial caste system).

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wheez the roux posted:

At least Spain offers citizenship to its former colonies, the US seems to go out of its way to gently caress over indigenous peoples both within and outside our borders
I mean outside of the Philippines (what's the Spanish perspective on them, incidentally?) there's not really a close parallel.

computer parts fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Dec 11, 2014

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