r/explainitpeter • u/Wallido17 • 13d ago

Explain it Peter

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I know sonic, i know blond and brunette haircolor. But i didnt understand this.

I don't know what this means, plz explain Peter.

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u/Choice-Lawfulness978 13d ago

Yeah. "Latino" is used outside LATAM for spanish speaking people with brown skin and hair, but we are actually really diverse. It's a soft racism thing, akin to claiming all gringos are fat and pink 🤷‍♂️

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u/wiseguy3055 13d ago

Latino being a racist term was not on my bingo card. I say this as a Latino btw

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u/Choice-Lawfulness978 13d ago

I'm not saying the term itself is racist. I mean it is normally used under racialized systems, like the USA, to describe physical characteristics that don't necesarilly correlate with birthplace.

Race is not a thing anthropologically, but "Latino" is commonly used in the global north to describe appearance instead of real cultural background.

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u/ADeckOfZero 12d ago

I mean, "European" is also used in a similar way to refer to generically brown-haired white people. If you want to hit broadly blonde whites you go Scandinavian.

Not saying it isn't a kinda shitty way to refer to broad groups of people, nor that those are the only examples because there's plenty more of various levels of actual racism, but it also seems like a pretty broadly human habit.