She wasn’t very wealthy - she was comfortably mddile class, and she wasn’t white - she was mixed, like 80% of the Mexican population.

Only four months paid parental leave at Facebook? Seriously? Come on! You’ve got Sheryl Sandberg preaching her Lean In gospel and that is all you have to offer? I honestly thought they would offer a decent parental leave package closer to what is offered in Europe: 8 months to a year at least.

Man, that’s setting the bar pretty low...

See, this bit is why, as a Mexican-American, I find race relations in America so baffling and how you can’t extrapolate the black experience in America to other races and ethnicities:

Let’s see: I said “it is usually as good as it sounds” when comparing the US to an industrialised country. I really do not understand this necessity to always bring in “the rest of the world” in these comparisons when trying to defend the US, as you tried to do when you stated this: “I’m not trying to put down other…

Well, I never even implied that my experiences are representative of every woman on every single country on Earth cause that is absurd - that is only your projection. My comment was a very specific experience on 4 countries.

Yes, it is usually as good as it sounds, I have lived in Mexico, Germany, Norway and the UK and that’s exactly how it works. I don’t understand why is that so surprising. You really do get your job back when your maternity leave ends. If they need to, they will usually hire a temp to do the job while your back. Not…

In all honesty? I don’t think Americans are exotic at all in Western Europe.

YES! YES! YES!

Well, you posted some sort of fan made video containing footage of another completely unrelated movie. I mean, at least you could have linked the official trailer. I am guessing you don’t know German, but come on, maybe double check if the clip is actually about the movie? Cause the subtitles have nothing to do with…

No, but they order them.

Do you know what Día de la Raza means? It means: “Day of the peoples”. Not the same holiday by any stretch. It used to be an official holiday, but it is not officially celebrated anymore.

I’m sorry, all this pseudo-historic mumbo jumbo does not address at all what Columbus Day represents: a) the guy didn’t “discover” shit b) it is apologia for colonisation. Besides, all those “Western” inventions are based on the shared knowledge among cultures for centuries. To try to claim them as entirely Western is…

Also, poinsettias.

Actually, Hispanic IS exactly about what we speak, though. But yeah, you can choose to be identified whichever way you want.

You have got this exactly backwards. Spaniards are most definitely Hispanic. Hispanic is an umbrella linguistic term, meaning, anyone who hails or whose native language is Spanish. The term Latino, as it is used in the US, would not include Spaniards, since it referes to people from Latin America.

Jesus, no. Hispanic is a linguistic umbrella term, meaning anyone whose mother language is Spanish. Brazil was colonized by Portugal, and most Brazilians speak Portuguese. The might be considered to be Latino since Brazil is in Latin America, but they will never be Hispanic.

The Phillippines, under Spanish rule, didn’t have an independent administration. It was administered by New Spain, from Mexico City.

This happened to my boyfriend in a flight from Berlin to Agadir, Morocco. He had his hands full, and decided to tuck his passport and boarding pass in the seat-back pocket. The bag full of barf just kinda exploded, leaking all over his legs. His passport was drenched in vomit and the boarding pass was useless. The…

I wonder what their reaction would be if it was the guy refusing the kiss. Or what about two men instead of a man and a woman. Maybe, “What an asshole” for refusing to kiss another man? Would they say: “What a shrew? What, does he think he can have a pick being that fat and ugly?”