Cordelia ,'Beneath You'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Well, by the same token, I tend to get my dander up when other Latinos/Hispanics use the term "brown" to universally mean Latino/Hispanic and as some standard of measure where others don't measure up. I mean, it's such a self-limiting term to start with.
Oh god, the gradations of spanish vs mexican vs indio vs what degree of immigration vs other things I can't recall in my hometown.
It makes my head hurt, I swear.
And we didn't even have Cubans or Puerto Ricans !
I signed up.
The source of the discount, by the way, was this site: [link] . They're in a lot of other cities besides Chicago. The basic deal is you sign up and get not-quite-daily emails (which was almost a dealbreaker for me, to be honest) with a daily discount on something or other. As long as at least 100 people sign up, the deal is valid. (CC is charged at the end of the day if it passes that mark.) I got into it as a source for rooftop Cubs tix, but I've gotten crazy deals on local restaurants a smidge more high end than I can usually justify ($20 for a $50 coupon is typical), dry cleaning ($15 for a $35 credit at a "green" dry cleaner that happens to be right on my route home from work) and last week $30 for a year membership to the Art Institute and a couple of their singles/young professionals groups. It seriously rocks.
And we didn't even have Cubans or Puerto Ricans !
Which is another headache unto itself.
Ooh, that Groupon looks great! And today's NYC deal was for a restaurant I like, but which is a little pricey -- too bad it sold out.
Groupon does look very cool. I just signed up for the DC emails.
This Groupon gets new-to-Lillian customers an x-ray and cleaning from Dr. Lillian Obucina, a former Northwestern University dental professor who lectures for the American Dental Association and Comic Con.
THAT IS AWESOME.
That is all.
When did Hispanic start being considered non-white? During a discussion of historical race relations, I got curious and tried searching a few names like Lopez and Garcia in the ancestry.com databases, and at least through the thirties, "color" was recorded as white. (Figuring out what the terms actually meant on those older forms is interesting. "Color" and "race" are separate categories, and then there's another for "complexion." For my ancestors, Color was white, Race was Hebrew, and Complexion could be either fair, medium, olive, or swarthy, depending on who was recording it.)
Dunno, but I was always the gringa.