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“White Latino” Is A Flawed Term

There seems to be a strange fascination among certain Latinos with dividing us into color schemes.

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Nardo Poerio
Mar 10, 2024
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With our diversity of cultural practices, it’s a wonder Latinos can agree on anything at all. Within my family, for example, we can have arguments about the best beans and chile that devolve into heated confrontations typically reserved for school-board meetings in Orange County.

So it’s not surprising that there is a push among some Latinos to call out …

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