Cain Velasquez is Mexican/isn't Mexican Thread ***Threads Merged***

[209since1978]

Cry me a river holmes! Bottom line is the VAST majority of Mexican Americans I know call themselves Mexicans, so considering I got a D- in mind reading in college, there is no way I would know you would prefer to be called "American" instead of "Mexican." Those white people are being respectful because they think that's what you would prefer to be called, you playing the race card isn't helping anyone. It just makes you look like a child.

Tha fuck you rambling about bro? You missed my whole fuckin point, Cain would be considered a Mexican by people in most any other situation. He embraces his heritage and considers himself Mexican and now everyone wants to bitch because he doesn't call himself American.

I personally don't like that shit because people I know don't go around calling themselves Irish or Italian, their American so I should be considered the same.
That's me though, I don't knock Cain for his choice in how he wants to view himself.

 

[Jblizzle]

Tha fuck you rambling about bro? You missed my whole fuckin point, Cain would be considered a Mexican by people in most any other situation. He embraces his heritage and considers himself Mexican and now everyone wants to bitch because he doesn't call himself American.

I personally don't like that shit because people I know don't go around calling themselves Irish or Italian, their American so I should be considered the same.
That's me though, I don't knock Cain for his choice in how he wants to view himself.

The Italian and Irish americans in my neighborhood do

 

[DGT4NOW]

Tha fuck you rambling about bro? You missed my whole fuckin point, Cain would be considered a Mexican by people in most any other situation. He embraces his heritage and considers himself Mexican and now everyone wants to bitch because he doesn't call himself American.

I personally don't like that shit because people I know don't go around calling themselves Irish or Italian, their American so I should be considered the same.
That's me though, I don't knock Cain for his choice in how he wants to view himself.

WTF do you live that Irish or Italians don't call themselves that?

 

[209since1978]

Very fair & honest reply man.

Like I said, you don't come across as hateful, but you did project racism (not that you are).

I too have witnessed a lot of racist tension & that had the reverse effect on me - it made me think 4x before saying something that can incite.

Well said, I think at times I fall into the whole Internet mindset where I am a little more free with my thoughts and not as diplomatic with my statements as i would be in a real life face to face discussion

 

[209since1978]

WTF do you live that Irish or Italians don't call themselves that?

Northern Cali, where only time you hear someone call themselves Irish is st. Paddy's day 😁

 

[DGT4NOW]

Well said, I think at times I fall into the whole Internet mindset where I am a little more free with my thoughts and not as diplomatic with my statements as i would be in a real life face to face discussion

Gotcha, thank you for having a good attitude about my reaction.

Northern Cali, where only time you hear someone call themselves Irish is st. Paddy's day 😁

Ha.
I live in NYC Metro Area & while incredibly assimilated, every area has Irish & Italian bars (as well as every other nationality)


Thanks for the respectful back & forth man

 

[209since1978]

The Italian and Irish americans in my neighborhood do

Talking to my boys from the east coast, They tell me it's different out there then here in Cali.

 

[IndyCovaHart]

Way to go, Mods.

I'd rather have one Jurassic pile of a shit thread than a million dung pellets scattered everywhere.

Keep snowballing them as they come.

 

[209since1978]

Gotcha, thank you for having a good attitude about my reaction.




Ha.
I live in NYC Metro Area & while incredibly assimilated, every area has Irish & Italian bars (as well as every other nationality)


Thanks for the respectful back & forth man

Thanks, I appreciate the respect in return bro.

 

[Soner14]

lol is it the first time americans discuss this?
here in germany we dealt for years with this..
at the end of the day its up to the person himself..

 

[Furious77]

I wouldn't pretend to be able to know that his ancestors, or he himself, were from Mexico, as opposed to being from, say, some other Central American or South American country. So I'd say he looked Latino.

Good for you. I could be wrong but im guessing at least where I live that "big ass mexican dude" would be the first thing out the they're mouth. I live in Los Angeles and i have a neighbor who was born and raised in Cali that was an assistant general manager of Home Depot in Venice Beach and not a single day passes where he is not reminded that he is mexican. Its not hard for me to see why Cain Identifies with being mexican especially since he grew up in a bordertown right next to Mexico and visited frequently. I would imagine that mexican culture was a huge part of his upbringing as well as dealing with the bigoted pricks that seem to thrive in Arizona.

 

[Jblizzle]

Talking to my boys from the east coast, They tell me it's different out there then here in Cali.

Makes sense

 

[ArtemV]

My parents were born in the USSR, this does not make me a Soviet! Although, it would be cool.

 

[smithwick]

lol is it the first time americans discuss this?
here in germany we dealt for years with this..
at the end of the day its up to the person himself..

I'm curious about this in Germany. Is it the Turks that this happens with?

 

[BonesNose**]

Cane is a Reptilian, they are known for their week knees.

 

[smithwick]

Cane is a Reptilian, they are known for their week knees.

Same race as Dominick Cruz.

 

[IIIIIIII]

It does matter how an American feels about the country they came from. How the folks from the country they came from feel about them also matters, but it is a separate issue.

but just because you feel something, does not mean that it is what you are. a white person can feel as black as any other actual black person, but that person will never be black.

 

[IIIIIIII]

Cry me a river holmes! Bottom line is the VAST majority of Mexican Americans I know call themselves Mexicans, so considering I got a D- in mind reading in college, there is no way I would know you would prefer to be called "American" instead of "Mexican." Those white people are being respectful because they think that's what you would prefer to be called, you playing the race card isn't helping anyone. It just makes you look like a child.

and here you are stereotyping every-single-american of mexican-descent as someone who sees themselves as mexican. lol @ "holmes". i guess you think that every american of mexican-descent drives a low-rider, and wears a red bandana. you're too accustomed to those americans of mexican-descent you apparently see in socal. there are others who live in other areas of the country, you know.

 

[IIIIIIII]

My parents were born in the USSR, this does not make me a Soviet! Although, it would be cool.

exactly. the idiocy in this thread is astounding.

 

[Uatu TheWatcher]

but just because you feel something, does not mean that it is what you are. a white person can feel as black as any other actual black person, but that person will never be black.

Sorry but you failed with that analogy.