23SP Class #6: Hispanic Considerations

[@the215sean]

This professor makes me regret not going to college. He's incredible and needs more recognition.

[@saram.7174]

I went to college, no professors like him :)

[@the215sean]

@@saram.7174 It's unfortunate. There's few and far between from what I hear. My brother when to PS and said this was one of the hardest courses to get because everyone signs up.

[@brandonbernal9496]

Everything he’s talking about can be learned in a book. You just have to stay vigilant in searching for the right ones

[@the215sean]

@@brandonbernal9496 Well yeah. The lord of the rings can be read from the book but they still made a movie.

[@anonymousgamer8807]

Not all professors are like this one.

[@brianchu3317]

Enjoyable lecture. I’m surprised some of these kids lack basic historical knowledge at this level of education.

[@mofo888]

Truly surprising and makes me wonder what exactly are the standards at PENN..or any of the ivy leagues.... maybe I should try and go back.

[@adr77510]

@@mofo888 This is *Penn State* a state school, not University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy league. If you're from PA and have a heartbeat you can get into Penn State. You can have perfect grades and have started a company and not get into UPenn on the contrary

[@mofo888]

@@adr77510 Thank you for the clarification.

[@sheaholloway9537]

Forgive me, but the lack of a basic education by most students, even those attending Ivy Leagues, does not surprise me in the least. As each decade dawns, standards in all grades have lowered, thus "students" such as these. Sad, considering most Americans ( at least) have knowledge greater than that of the Library of Alexandria in their pockets.

[@y2ssimon]

Thank you so much for allowing others to learn from this Professor. I want to go back to college just to attend to his classes. This is public service❤

[@feebeemars6754]

Definitely is a public service. I too am grateful to be able to watch his lectures.

[@jerzecandy]

I learn from these classes these students if born in America they’ re American or citizens of the United States

[@frankiefrazer2988]

Absolutely love this lecture. As an American of Mexican immigrants I've been really fascinated by the identity and who gets to claim it. Although I did find the volunteers and students not asking questions frustrating.

[@DDBAMBAM87]

This man is the coolest professor ever

[@bornmexicanraisedinamerica4912]

These people are U.S. citizens because they were born here. I’m Mexican because I was born in Mexico. People confuse race/ethnicity with nationality. It’s a failure of our education system.

[@danieltirico6593]

100% ^

[@ArlindoBuriti]

but lets be real there is one country that this will never happen... in japan... if you are not a child of a japanese women and a japanese male you will never be japanese... never.

[@dumillion23]

💯

[@southamericunt6354]

1000000% i would say theyre latinamerican DESCENDANTS just like I, a latinamerican with italian ancestry, say if it comes up: im an italian DESCENDANT

[@gilgameshkingofheroes5903]

People are confused about race because it's made up.

[@lethbridge79]

Just wanted to compliment this professor. Very refreshing to hear a lecture that is delivered in such an entertaining, thoughtful, and interesting way. All whilst not having a woke agenda.

[@Rick_1337]

I don't quite understand people that want to sneak in or out. I am watching this at home for no other reason than to hear what they have to say and educate myself. Are we not all here for knowledge? I would consider myself so fortunate to be able to attend in person.

[@kennan6176]

I know right and these people are paying to be here

[@M11969]

Same.

[@guillermone1]

What a GREAT professor....I would never skip his lectures....!!!!

[@Ps2MexFan]

This is an amazing course, I hope the everyone in the class is curios enough, this content will help to improve our society.

[@tiamaria5862]

I'm watching from Europe.. very interesting! Also very different from the "regular USA view" on this topic, I like it!

[@craigp497]

Its not really different just a more honed version.

[@ZenityStudios]

Wdym "regular usa view"? this lecture is from usa, it is the regular usa view

[@kennan6176]

​@@ZenityStudiosCome on let's be real. The regular u s a view is to cry and scream when you don't get your right way and when people disagree with you

[@ZenityStudios]

@@kennan6176 this is a regular college class in the usa. this is the regular usa view. what you are referring to is the insane outlier cases that wind up on social media. i would think you understand how virality on the internet works.

[@Mwwww79]

Great professor. Thought provoking which is great in universities.

[@SuperRadChad]

This is what higher education should look like 🎉

[@Miksit1818]

“Professors can be woke too” 😂 amazing lecture!

[@pep590]

It's amazing, if they are now woke, which often includes being anti-white.

[@elioftheforest]

These are the exact same topics I’ve been wrestling with being Lebanese-American/Arab/Levantine. This is a great course!

[@Theunion802]

These past few lectures have been very refreshing.

[@stupot295]

So many good clips from just one lecture so far

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Yes! I found this from a clip about "Latinx"

[@godsrevolver9737]

"I cook a lot" "I don't believe you" means a ton to me.. because I cook from different areas of the world. I've been to like 10 different countries.

[@irenrodriv]

Fro Puerto Rico, the only people I have heard using Latinx are college students not even the teachers. We don’t like the term

[@theselectormd]

Thank you.

[@lucaschacon8362]

Profesor basado 👏

[@ElBarrabasVK]

I am from Spain and as far as I understand, Hispanic comes from Hispania which was an area in the Roman Empire which covered both Modern Spain and Portugal. So technically we are the Hispanos. Then latin people are Spanish, Portuguese, France,Italians and Romanian cuz our language come from Latin language. So technically speaking, in central and south American they are latin-americans. People descended from someone who was born in, the former colonies of Spain and Portugal, the term "Latin American" actually has its source in the term "l'Amérique latine" coined by the French in, I believe, the 1800's and it was intended to, and until recently, referred to (if not still refers to) the people from the colonies of those Romance Language countries of Spain, Portugal,France,etc.

[@Zamo14]

🇵🇹🇪🇸😎

[@adr77510]

The root of the word may have included all of Iberia, but the way the US government uses it is exclusive to Spain and its former colonies that now speak Spanish

[@Caralaza]

A lot of us Spanish-speaking latinos call ourselves Hispanic/hispano because we are descendants of the Spanish colonists, we speak the Spanish language, and our culture is mostly derived from old, Andalusian and Canarian culture. In Puerto Rico, where my family is from, many people (including the current governor) TO THIS DAY call Spain La Madre Patria. There is even a small reunificacionista movement.

[@republitarian484]

@@Caralaza . . . so "Hispanics" have ancestors that were colonizers and slave traders and yet somehow a White Polish American has to be discriminated against for DEI?

[@Caralaza]

@@republitarian484 well, it's not that simple. The majority of Hispanics have colonist descent, but that doesn't imply that they were the descendants of "colonizers" (people who actively colonize as opposed to members of a colony), though some are, and it certainly does not imply they're ancestors were involved in slave trade (it would be ridiculous to claim every Spaniard in America had the same occupation), though some are. It also has to be acknowledged that the majority, though not all, of Hispanic-Americans are mixed (some more, some less) with indigenous Americans and/or African slaves. Because of this and our historic opposition to Spanish rule/oppression, we're often distinguished from Spaniards entirely and therefore removed from their colonial efforts. We also have a long history of race-based discrimination in the US (we were rarely seen as "white"). As for discrimination against Poles, I have no authority there...

[@PrimerCinePodcast]

I love these!! Thanks so much for sharing them

[@MrKnightslayer7]

Just watched 50 minutes of a smart and kind professor explain history to a bunch of kids with identity issues and racial guilt use the languages that have developed from all those cultures tribes and peoples over 10s of thousands of years of intermingled beautiful and lost history and just dissolve into identity politics and the professor even called it out with his comment about wokeness. It’s a shame education like this is rare. Thankfully it’s being shared more

[@Mary_AngelCR]

I love this teacher

[@danieltirico6593]

RIP the other Sebastian’s in the class without the Spanish pronunciation

[@Nibinin]

Latin America was a concept invented by the French in Napoleonic times to refer to the parts of the American continent that speak languages derived from Latin but not including french-speaking parts of Canada (so Mexico and further south plus some Caribbean islands such as Cuba or Puerto Rico). Hispanoamerica is the area of Central and South America and Caribbean that has Spanish as its official language, so it excludes Brazil or French Guyana for example. Geographically in Spanish one refers to all south of the USA as Latinoamérica but culturally when someone talks about being latino it tends to exclude non Spanish speaking countries (so it would be the same as Hispanoamerica). So in practicality, if you aren't being pedantic, the terms are interchangeable. Some will claim it is a heritage based thing but I know enough Italian or German heritage Chilean and Argentinian people who consider themselves hispanos or latinos (as well as a few who seem to think they are actually European and not the same as those "latinos", even though nobody in Europe sees them that way 😂)

[@smokedbrisket3033]

I have always understood the term "Latin" as broadly speaking of anyone whose ancestry is southwestern Europe (yeah, Romania is the oddball of that bunch) and originating in ancient Italy. Off the top of my head, that's currently about a dozen languages, including Romanian. Just as we can classify biological life by the things they have in common (kingdom, phylum...genus, species) we can also classify cultures by the things they have in common. I don't think it's a bad thing, it helps our minds to make an orderliness of things. Spaniards and Portuguese (having Latin ancestry) will have more in common with each other than they will with English or German people; that said, there's some fairly heavy Latin influence in England via Roman occupation 16 or 17 centuries ago.

[@Llquiquell]

I think the concept has evolved to include Most Spanish speaking countries in America. The are some that reject their roots and claim more the European part of their lineage.

[@nyxbellatrix011]

@@Llquiquell i have Argentine family and they are of Polish blood and customs… you can hardly accuse them (nor most of the Argentine descendants of immigration arrived from Europe in the late 1930’s) of “rejecting” their roots…

[@Llquiquell]

@@nyxbellatrix011 I would say you are correct you can’t reject what you never had. I was speaking more to the mestizo population that reject their roots

[@Zamo14]

Fun facts!!French is the less latin origin sounding language compared to the others...and it was actually Portugal the first European country that first made it into the "Americas"!!

[@LazaroAlejo]

29:08 “ Professors can be woke too “ wow, you make me want to go back to school, you are a real teacher 🔥🔥🔥🙏

[@zionious6657]

Lmao 🤣

[@ian251]

Just to clarify if someone is asking themselves, the term "Latino/a" comes from Latin the language, for someone to be considered "Latino/a" they have to speak a language based on Latin, like Spanish

[@silverlightsinaugust2756]

Unfortunately, the usage of a word changes over time. It’s become colloquially used as a functional synonym of Hispanic, or perhaps something similar to that. Which means it now means both things, depending on the context. You will always lose this battle. I learned it in high school when I kept insisting to people that literally wasn’t just an intensifier, it meant that something was exactly the way you described. But the usage has broadened, because people don’t base their lives on the dictionary. The dictionary bases its entries on word usage. Grammar, definitional and syntactic corrections on common usages of words fly in the face of modern linguistics, which understands that language is a human construct, it evolves over time, and it has no “correct” way of being used. New dialects and languages develop from older ones through this evolution. I think the general public will have an easier existence if we simply embrace the fluidity and flexibility of language. It’s imperfect, personal, absurd, and expressive. We misuse it and mishear it. I’ll get off my soap box now.

[@tiagodagostini]

@@silverlightsinaugust2756 The word Latino is not even an English word so it is not up to english speakers to change its use. We speakers of latin based languages are the ones that say what it is.

[@silverlightsinaugust2756]

@@tiagodagostini that’s just an absurd thing to even suggest. It means something different to different people in different parts of the world. Latino is an English word too, now that it has entered the lexicon. And its use in English differs from its use in other languages. I don’t think I should need to repeat my earlier point that we cannot force language to be any kind of way. It is ever changing, and that’s a fact. It’s true across language barriers, borders, and distances. This rule doesn’t stop existing because the word is in your language.

[@tiagodagostini]

@@silverlightsinaugust2756 Taht is bullshit. language has no value if it changes without care. One of the disaster of modern age is how diluted the value of language is, Just watch a news programs and you see journalists using wwords like fascist in completely wrong form. Language has value on the fact that it is standarized.. remove that and it is only noise. and no that is not an opinion.. that is mathmatically proved on communication theory.

[@bezarau]

are you implying you have heard of Italians, French or Romanians who call themselves "latino/a"?

[@xerido]

It's interesting to see that here in spain this class is part of our normal history currículum. Not in too much details but in general. The asian origin of the indigenous, the effect of the conquistas by spanish , portuguese and english. Not so much about the french or dutch

[@ridesharegold6659]

Yeah, this stuff used to be taught everywhere in the US as recently as 15 years ago (some states still have it in the curriculum) but facts are losing ground to the woke ideology.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Indigenous peoples of America have a close common ancestry with Asians, they themselves aren't Asians.

[@xerido]

@@ibrahimihsan2090 thats what i'm tryong to convey with asian origin. It means exactly what you said not that they are asian

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

@@xerido Asian origin means that they are descended from Asians. It would be better to say that they both were descended from another group.

[@grantmcinnes1176]

Goddamn it I want to criticize this dude for having attendance like a 14 year old class. And goofing on people for having phones. But feck, he's right. And every attendance taking I resented and ignored I would take back to have the perspective to realize what a gift it is to have time to think about these things with someone else who has learned so much more.

[@francianogal443]

People not participating. It's frustrating.

[@abesview5855]

Highly agree with what is being said at 1:05:18. I fear that my future children will not be as Dominican or Russian as I or my partner. I think it is crucial to educate your children on the morals of your family ancestry otherwise as dr richards mentioned you will forget it and not care to understand it.

[@juniorjose06]

I like this professor 😂

[@DanielFlores-ue7jb]

That 4 guys, my opinion as mexican, as mexican born and raise in mx...i really would say to these kids with identity issues....well i see four americans, for me doesn't matter the color skin or the background, traits, etc, they are americans cause their mindset is american, that's all. Idiosincrasy is the one how creates identidy, white mexicans are mexicans cause they think as mexicans no matter they are white. all these half blood dudes living and america and having english as mother tongue, dudes you are americans, you must care for america, if you have spare time care for your background roots are from, but firts of all from america, that's your nation. If you wanna connect with your roots learn the leanguage, i understand american mindset cause i learnt and dominated english as second lenguague.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Not everybody is a fan of nationalism.

[@kennan6176]

Straight up dude your mother tongue is the real nation you belong That was even the plot line of MGSV.

[@DanielFlores-ue7jb]

@@kennan6176 what is MGSV?

[@marcag9810]

@@ibrahimihsan2090 it's not nationalist to understand yourself in terms of the hegemonic culture in your nation. It is racist to believe that you are defined first and foremost by your skin colour or by the place of origin of your grandfathers.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

@@marcag9810 It depends. What I meant by nationalism was defining yourself solely on your nationality and regarding it the most important part of their identity. Also, I didn't set any default and neither did the video. The default is still that citizens of America are Americans. That doesn't mean that people will simply say yes to that and move on. People who care about their ethnic origins will try including it in that default.

[@BigMouse1288]

All these youngsters are clueless. I’m with you professor regarding this woke generation nonsense.

[@VonKraatz]

Americans from the United States are commonly thought of and recognized as "Americans" due to the name "United States of America", yes we are all in the America's but referred to differently in most cases.

[@lafleurstudios]

I grew up overseas, so Americans were always from the USA, and if someone was from say Mexico or Canada they would be called that something according to their countries. It was very strange to come back and here people saying folks from those other countries were "American". My friends from Europe found it to be just as confusing.

[@2424jonbon1]

@@lafleurstudios I also grew up overseas from 6yrs old to 17, my Daddy was in US Military, & I find it confusing that a lot Americans don’t identify as “American”(?🤷‍♂️🤔) We only had base housing for 6 months of all those overseas tours which sucked at the time but I super appreciate now! Sorry, my point & question, I talk a lot, apologies, is the Germans, Italians, Turks, Saudis etc had zero problems identifying US as “American” so then why when my family gets stationed stateside do I realize Americans have hard time identifying themselves as “American”? It’s weird

[@abcc917]

@desperate need of scotch Maybe because they share the US meaning. Many people in LATAM get offended when people use American=🇺🇸. And doing it in Spanish? Run for your life. 😂

[@VonKraatz]

@desperate need of scotch why not, it's a beautiful language? A twist of fate here and there and this nation could have been Spanish. Large portions of the nation were formally Spanish.

[@thedanwriter1]

What is this professor’s name? And what college or university does he teach at?

[@Shuayb_ibn_Saleh]

Dr. Sam Richards at Penn state university

[@xoxoxoxoxii]

I’m puerta rican and Mexican Moms from ponce puerta Rico , Irish , taino Indian, subharian african Dads from saccateca Mexico

[@poorwotan]

The Professor would have a field day with me up there... lol I'm a third generation German in South America, born in one South American country, grew up in others: Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, studied in Boston, living again in Puerto Rico, speak 4 languages (German, English, Spanish, and still a bit of Portuguese), 2 grandparents born in Germany, 1 Swiss, and one in a German Colony in Africa, parents born in Brazil and Argentina, and keep many of my German traditions handed down from grandparents to parents to me. In Latin America I am called a gringo. In the US I qualify as Hispanic when I feel like it... haha There should only be 4 categories on the census: 1) US Citizen 2) Legal Resident 3) Illegal resident 4) Native American. In the US, we really need to stop categorizing every one; the segmentation is putting us all against each other (well, by design...).

[@mendamend]

Hispanic refers to the people and culture of Spain. It was redefined by the US census bureau to classify hundreds of millions of Spanish speakers of all races, religions and cultures. It essentially is attempting to racialize people of another language in a North American context as non-white, even though millions of Spanish speakers are white with 100 percent European ancestry. The USA is a country that doesn't have a name. Latin@ is any person that speaks a Romance language. Brazilians, Romanians, Italians and Mexicans are all Latino. In the Spanish speaking world America is one continent from Canada to Chile and all its inhabitants are American.

[@lafleurstudios]

Italian is heavily based in its Latin origins, not Spanish. Spanish is also a Latin based language. Your comment has me confused.

[@Zamo14]

Brazilians speak Portuguese my man

[@adr77510]

The Latino part is wrong. Latino is a Spanish term abbreviated from latinoamericano (latin American). Latino only refers to speakers of a Latin-based language in the Americas. Latin, however, refers to having derived from Latin in general. Italians are Latin, not Latino. Spaniards are Latin (and Hispanic), but not Latino.

[@mendamend]

@@Zamo14 read my comment again. Portuguese is a Latin language, ergo, Brazilians, or native Portuguese speakers, are Latinos, whether they are from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, etc.

[@IvonneSG100]

It's interesting because I was born and raised in Mexico and I've got European and Native Mexican (Indigenous) dna in me and although I don't consider my ethnicity my identity---I am human, that's all--If people ask, I do say I'm just Mexican. Ancestry is super mixed. My little brother was born in Mexico but he is half white (because his dad is a white U.S citizen). He has dual citizenship but considers himself full on American (U.S.A). He's lived here since he was a baby, so his main language is English. He forgets he was born in Mexico 😆 I guess that's also a huge factor in what feels more "home" to people and what labels they want to adopt as part of their "identity". If we don't feel connected to the culture or country even if we were born there or our ancestors came from there, we won't think much of it. We relate more to our current environment and the environment we grew up in. Since I've lived in the U.S since I was 12, almost 16 years now, the U.S feels more my home. I'd totally say I'm American even though I wasn't born here. And in a way, I am, since this is North America. 😌 My sister also born in Mexico like myself feels the same way about this. We don't care either way. We're so mixed and we moved so much we see ourselves and everyone else as just humans. "Race" is just an illusion, I feel.

[@craigp497]

Glad to know people of like minds are out there in the world! 😀

[@jamesalexander949]

Question, why do most Hispanics refuse to learn or speak English when they come here, every other immigrant group learned and spoke English. So it must be either 1) laziness, 2) ignorance, 3) disrespect

[@IvonneSG100]

@@jamesalexander949 I can't speak for everyone else, but I can say that the older the person is, the harder it is to learn a new language. And also, their level of education needs to be considered too. If they dont speak English or speak only a little bit, it is definitely not done with the intent of being disrespectful. I came to the U.S as a child and was influenced by the American culture even when I was living in Mexico, so for me it was easier to pick up the language. Especially going to school in the U.S, you have no choice but to learn it. My mom started learning English in her 20s and her English isn't the best per se but she tries her best. I know a lot of immigrants feel more comfortable in neighborhoods where there's other people who speak their language and share their culture. Call it laziness or whatever you might, but they do it because it makes it easier for them to navigate life. However, that's only mostly for adult immigrants. Child immigrants or children born here to immigrant parents usually grow up to speak the English language better. Most are bilingual, some choose to focus mostly on one language. 🤷‍♀️ I just want to add that when I lived in Mexico, there were quite a few U.S citizens who spoke very little Spanish that lived there or vacationed there. Mexicans never took offense to that. It isn't easy to start a new life in a new country and having to learn a new language, etc. Even I have come across many people from European, Asian, or other countries that didn't speak English or their English was very broken, I still try my best to understand and communicate with them. The majority do try to learn the language, though. It just isn't easy.

[@jamesalexander949]

@Ivonne Hernandez odd, my great grandfather came here from Sicily at 49 years old. He learned English, taught his children English etc. I feel if you move to another country, adapt to the host, don't be a parasite. As for tourists, they come and go. I would not expect someone from Zimbabwe to speak perfect English anymore than someone from Poland would expect me to speak fluent polish as a tourist

[@IvonneSG100]

@@jamesalexander949 Lol Personally, I wouldn't call them parasites. That's disrespectful. They're human beings. I have met so many of these people and they're super hardworking. But I do agree that if someone moves here, they should do their optimal best to adjust to the new country as much as possible. The majority of them do try their best, I do have to say that. Some people are better at learning a new language than others. And I wouldn't expect or ask for someone to forget about or disregard their roots just because they're in a new country. Especially if they haven't been here for too long. Culture shock is a real thing. Have you ever experienced having to start over in a new country where you barely speak the language and most likely have to work through the limitations that come with that? It's a shattered reality to many. The beauty of the U.S is that it was founded on freedom. Immigrants from all over the world who chose to join the colonies and what slowly became the U.S were able to pursue a better future and to have the freedom to still preserve their roots. Of course, there's been restrictions when it came to said freedoms, but the intention has always been to allow people to be true to express themselves and live their lives how they see fit without tyranny. Respecting the laws, of course. My ancestors on my mother's side migrated to Mexico from Italy too. We still honor our Italian heritage. ❤ What I love about the U.S is the natural diversity and how many cultures can coexist. People like to say that the U.S doesn't have a culture, but I disagree. And I know some people also want to push the racism agenda and "colonialism", but that's because they don't see the beauty of what the U.S is. They take it for granted. The U.S culture to me is how despite our many differences, we have a foundation---and that's unity and freedom--being "patriotic" about it. I want to end this by saying that I have witnessed that society as a whole, has become more lazy. I wouldn't attribute that to immigrants who have a hard time adjusting to the country. I feel it's much more deeper than that. There's been lots of brainwashing and conditioning people that I've been witnessing.

North America: Canada, US, and Mexico. Now there is a Central America with many countries and South America with many others too. The terms North American or American are wrongly used to call people from the US but even Spanish countries and other countries are used to call them that way.

[@pep590]

You are so right!

[@noelramirez1551]

North America includes "central America" and the Caribbean

[@plbpardo]

As someone who grew up in Latin America, it seems there is some points to clear out: Latin American is anyone who has roots in the Roman language that has ancestry in the Americas "American" is anyone born in the continent America ( as long as this is a conversation occurring in Spanish), in English Ameican is used for ppl from the US. Hispanics are those who speak Spanish, it exclude Bracilians etc., Hispania is also another name for Spain( Roman name for the Iberic peninsula), also people from Spain are hispanics. Mestizos are those born from Natives and Spaniards, thus must latins are technically either native American or white by definition. Criollos are the pure bloods descendent from spanirds, which now is fairly un common. Mulatos are decendents of Africans and a mix of native american and/or European. I think one of the more beautiful things about been latino is that we welcome anyone because we are everyone, Latinos are such a mixed race that come in every color of skin you can think of.

[@joshgrnbuddha3381]

Man KZbin is messed up. I went to the main channel so I could listen to a lecture in the background while I did other stuff. The app won't let any of this channels videos play in the background. Has no problem with other channels, doesn't even give the message like with music. Be well

[@moot8107]

Maybe you should focus on the video

[@JackoTJK]

Super interesting

[@thomassenbart]

The Americas were likely populated by multiple migrations and much older and varied, than that attributed to those who crossed the Bering Sea from Siberia.

[@co7013]

I often use the term U.S. Americans. Did I make that up?

[@aayushrivastava]

You missed the Indo Caribbeans in the first slide - a majority group in 3 non Hispanic Caribbean countries.

[@Danielle-nz9tn]

First 15+ minutes is just attendance. The class doesn’t start until 17:00 or so.

[@superinquisitor]

He's for real teaching hidden history!!

[@southamericunt6354]

Its not hidden T-T we learn all of this in latinamerica

[@MrKnightslayer7]

It’s quite literally built into the language and just not looked at or taught! 🤷‍♂️

[@superinquisitor]

@@MrKnightslayer7 its true! It's in the language, but for most people, it goes over their heads. I don't blame them, though. Language has been massively manipulated since the 12th century, I believe. Have you heard of the great vowel shift?

[@MrKnightslayer7]

@@superinquisitor kinda I heard it differently but it sounds the same. There was many different tribes, languages and cultures which were forced to mingle within those time periods especially the end of the 12th century onward so from the tip of Scandinavia to the base of Africa people were intermingling and trading aware of it or not and over the 1500 years so many words between, Latin,Celtic, Greek, Arabic and so many others cultures and races mixed in between have gotten selective words to stay, Others die out language always changes adapts and grows but mostly naturally.

[@superinquisitor]

@@MrKnightslayer7 you’re changing the topic. I’m talking about hidden history and you’re dying to be right about something.

[@luisrvazquez3461]

We are almost 450million people in the continent outside USA and we call ourselves American too. For us America is the whole continent. So for example I'm Costa Rican and American

[@sindanonegongo1199]

From Namibia 🇳🇦 (Southern Africa) we sometimes mix race with nationality

[@BeepasGarage]

North America actually also includes all of Central America and the Caribbean in a continental context.

[@noelramirez1551]

Yea I hate when people say central America and sometimes include Mexico in central America it's like they're trying to make north America Just the white countries like Canada and the US

[@lufax]

You're correct from an English-speaking perspective. For the other languages, The Americas is just 1 continent: America. South, Central and North America are just subdivisions (the same way you can divide Europe into Eastern and Western)

[@BeepasGarage]

@@lufax no the Americas are two continents. North America and South America. Google is your friend.

[@lufax]

@markyoung2675 , please read my message again. Continent division is not a 'fact', it's a convention. Splitting the American continent into two is done in English speaking nations and a few others. Just check Wikipedia under Continent -> Number

[@BeepasGarage]

@@lufax I mean that may be true culturally, but the reason the majority of first-world countries have a 7 continent model because of influences from geological principles of tectonic plates. North and South America exist on two separate plates. Regardless, Central America is not a continent in any definition so I think it’s silly when people refer to it as one.

[@alfredomartinez6942]

All I can say, what a crowd . Is this a college class?? How is it that they make to college,

[@thomassenbart]

Not all of the Caribbean is Hispanic because many islands are/were controlled/inhabited by other European powers.

[@FreedomBiafra]

The u.s. defines a Hispanic or Latino" as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. So alaina is not latina. She doesn't belong to a country or group that's culturally connected to a spanish speaking country. Latino is a multi cultural text describing that.

[@itzae934]

I m native from the original towns,please respect, I deserve to be happy too, I not ilegal human and I have humans right too

[@michelleikoma2953]

I am Canadian. Can someone provide the definitions of Latino, and Hispanic? I thought they were synonyms, so it would help me to understand the discussion better to have definitions. Also, is there a different set of definitions for academia and for those in the broader community?

[@deniselane2500]

Hispanic refers to a person with ancestry from a country whose primary language is Spanish. Latino and its variations refer to a person with origins from anywhere in Latin America (Mexico, South and Central America) and the Caribbean.

[@polsh5175]

Not anywhere. People from Belize or Jamaica for example are not latinos since their culture does not derive from any Latin culture. The term “Latin” inside Latin America is not geographical, only America is.

[@jmpcoelho]

@@polsh5175 so, is it fair to say there's also a Latin Europe, then? As in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Romania... because our languages come from Latin.

[@AlexsaurusRex]

@@jmpcoelho I'm Latino and I always assumed that Latinos are those that are a mix of pre colonial indigenous American and Spanish. Apparently the word Mestizo is the actual word for that definition. Maybe there is some congruency there though because other than the Latin derived language, what else relates us to Latin? No Greek or Roman roots 🤷‍♂️

[@polsh5175]

@@AlexsaurusRex ​ Well taking into consideration that Spain as a civilization developed from the Roman Empire which culture was the Latin culture I would say that this summons it up. Today's Spain got Latin citizenship ( after becoming a province of the Roman Empire... To put it somehow if Latin Americans are Latin is not because of the American indigenous heritage or because they are born in the Americas continent. It is because of the Spanish heritage that would not existed if it was not for the Roman Empire having conquered the Iberian Peninsula and having brought the Latin culture to the natives of today's Spain... So being Hispanic makes you Latin and being born in the Americas or having American indigenous blood makes you American, ergo Latin American. Latin is a culture, a language, a philosophy. It means values, traditions and ways differentiated from other cultures. I don't understand how it is so easy to dismiss the origins and meanings of such a word.

[@matiascurtidor15]

"professors can be woke too"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 "woke generation"

[@godsrevolver9737]

True, but the woke generation practically created those professors. Most just don't want to lose their jobs in a time where more professors have lost their livelihoods than any other generation in history.

[@kandystorressantiago8865]

What do you mean by woke? What does that mean to you?

[@StuninRub]

@God's Revolver That's not how this works. Wokeness is created by professors and teachers, kids don't know any better and are easily brain washed.

[@StuninRub]

​@Kandy's Torres Santiago Being unnecessarily politically correct, to the point where the original intent is completely forgotten.

[@fach4422]

Sound begins at 6:02

[@milton7763]

“You are a cool mix, because you are” all US citizens, born and raised?

[@pabol1000]

US student are woke but not woken for classes...

[@markzl1608]

As a Puerto Rican I prefer Latino, but honestly, I’m American so it really doesn’t matter much to me.

[@jameskellenberger8740]

These students could really gain from a food culture class considering they feel eating food helps them identify as a cultural group

[@PhilippBoettcher]

I am a bit confused at (50:21). First the professor explains that there is more genetic variation between Africans than between Africans and Europeans or Asians. Than he continues that there would be more genetic variation between Elana and him than between Elana and Africans. Did he misspoke and meant instead that Elana and he would have genetically more in common than Elana and Africans? I'd be thankful for clarification. (Obviously I am not an english native speaker, so maybe something slipped)

[@francianogal443]

In the program" Mentes Curiosas" you can get the answer of why the American Continent is called like that.

[@donatelalarosa9109]

Interesting lecture

[@OddawallWood]

So Canadians are Americans? I have never met a Canadian who accepts that lable.

[@abcc917]

According to spanish language perspective and LATAM education systems, yes. (Well, according to some english dictionaries too) Many Canadians seem really angry about the whole idea of being put in the same box with 🇺🇸).

[@Dixie_Normiz]

It means america as in the continent

[@notarivsanonymvs2561]

What does the professor have in his hands? Is it a gadget for stimming and/or fidgeting?

[@InteractiveDNA]

Have you watched Man in Black?

[@andreas.9175]

It's a remote for the project/computer.

[@laobaba]

Unrelated to the content: The end where he's just standing around looking while the crowd of students gets up and starts to leave looks like something out of a music video / movie. Wild.

[@katherinebeltran2704]

I want to just share how much of a prvedge it is to be an American citizen regardless of the tremendous obstacles my parents went through, I am American But, is that all ? That’s what identity is we all have choices !!! I don’t associate myself with my Race I think that’s a human construct ( you can say a product of colonization) and from my “ american” education I am able to enjoy diversity from other cultures. I speak fluently English Spanish Portuguese and Italian. I am a Peruvian American Women I identify more than nationality because in several latina countries both central and South American we speak more than just Spanish there are still endangered but beautiful indeginous languages. I dislike when people call me “ Spanish” because also from this lecture I’m not from Spain both my parents are Peruvian, and I love our culture. I’m proud to be brown because my mom is indigenous. And it’s great to see other perspectives and others being informed of how to respect different cultures

[@aurorab6796]

Brazil speaks Portuguese.

[@VonKraatz]

My God, if we accept current research we all came from Africa, so what's the point of asking where "native" Americans came from? It all depends on how far back you want to go.

[@lafleurstudios]

Ah but it really wasn't Africa back then. It was a whole different continent, and the plates shifted moving people all over the place.

[@VonKraatz]

@laflorestudios ah but the region was what is known as Africa today, so whatever that area was is where humans got their start.

[@reddesert3521]

@@lafleurstudios Pangea

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Native Americans are natives because they are indigenous and they are indigenous because they are oldest known people to inhabit the Americas. Also, Africans and Europeans arrival to the Americas was 400-500 years ago. What makes them more native than Native Americans as far as regional presence is concerned?

[@thomassenbart]

Yes, anyone living in North or South America are technically American but no one uses the word this way. When someone mentions America or American, they are necessarily referring to the USA and its citizens.

[@PhilippBoettcher]

I am a bit confused at (50:21). Sam explains that there is more genetic variation between Africans than between Africans and Europeans or Asians. Then he continues that there would be more genetic variation between Elana and him than between Elana and Marocco or South Africa. Did he misspoke and meant instead that Elana and he would have genetically more in common than Elana and Marocco or South Africa? I'd be thankful for clarification. (Obviously I am not an english native speaker, so maybe something slipped)

[@poorwotan]

He just misspoke. Instead of the word "more" (genetic variation) he should have said "less".

[@daveslivesound3143]

had no idea "like" was still used so much :)

[@vilmaherrera4651]

Nos dicen “Spanish” porque hablamos español. Somos latino americanos. Aunque yo creo…..que tenemos algo de español porque…. cuando llegaron a conquistarnos se relacionaron entre los españoles y los nativos (mujeres)de nuestras tierras. So, hubo una mezcla. Eso entiendo yo.

[@yoyatecontare8024]

From which university is this class? Thank you in advance

[@xx_HI_xx7]

I think we need to work on our students skills in speaking enlish fluently. I here to many filler words and moments of "uh." Also the word like os used far too often. Just pause for a moment. Works better than usimg filler words.

[@rafaeljesusiglesiasflores3698]

Count Dracula is more latino than Thais. Dracula is from Romenia, is a latin (latino) country. Romenian comes from latin.

[@bornmexicanraisedinamerica4912]

In reality Latin American country don’t use Latino or Hispanic. They use Mestizo. Latin and Hispanic were the assigned us by white liberals. Even though we can be considered white because of our Spanish ancestry. Mestizo is the mix of native and European blood. Latino/a can be assign to any person that can trace their lineage to any country with language being derived from Latin. Examples are French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugueses. Hispanic is any one that can trace part or all their ancestry to Spain. Spain used to be called Hispaniola.

[@bluetinsel7099]

There is an article from Harvard that goes over mestizo and créole and they referred to mestizo as a mix of Asian mothers and Spanish fathers which would be a distinct mix. When looking at créole that was more of those who were fathered by a French or Spanish man especially when they go over Louisiana and Texas the mothers would be indigenous or negro, but what is interesting is the reclassification of the indigenous to negro. There are a few articles on it. I saw your previous comment on the confusion of race, ethnicity and nationality and you are right on how many confuse them. Mestizo and créole as well as Arab are types of mixes and in Hebrew Arab means mixed so the different types of mixes are interesting in themselves. If you are interested in the mestizo more there is a book on Mexico called Asian slaves in colonial Mexico: From Chino to Indian by Tatiana Seijas that may be an interesting read.

[@j3d89]

Latino is because spanish and portuguese, creole or french spoken in the area are derived from latin..has nothing to do with race or skin color…

[@demian2658]

La Española is the name given by the First discoverers to the island where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are today. Hispania is what the Romans called the Iberian Peninsula. The Marca Hispanica was the territory between the political-military frontier of the Carolingian Empire and al-Andalus (south of the Pyrenees), from the end of the 8th century until its effective independence in various kingdoms and counties.

[@goncalodias6402]

Actually hispania was the name of the whole península. It was actually controversial when the several kingdoms united and called themselves Spain, because it excluded portuguese from being spanish, the real name of the spanish language is castilian, because that was the dominant kingdom. The most famous portugues epoet wrote about that in the sixteenth century "lets talk about portuguese and castillians, because we're all spanish"

[@demian2658]

@@goncalodias6402 Portugal separated from Spain because in the war of succession they sided with the losers, the Habsburgs, the winners were the Bourbons. Portugal will always be considered a brother country and vice versa, geopolitics separated us. By the way it was not a war in Catalonia, it was a war in all of Spain, for the succession, the Catalan separatist fanatics love to say that it was an uprising for the independence of Catalonia, which is a lie.

[@m3ducraft]

To me, those four kids are Americans. Neither is Mexican, Argentinian, Spanish, Caribbean, or Peruvian.

[@elohimrojas]

Voy a decirlo en español. Espero que lo entiendan muchas personas y aclaren muchas dudas. Todos lo que nacemos en el continente americano (entiendase America del norte, centro o sur) es AMERICANO. Y pueden clasificarse por razones practicas y geograficas en 3 partes. CENTRO AMERICANO, SURAMERICANO, NORTEAMERICANO ( este ultimo contiene a Canada mexico y eeuu) . Al igual que las islas del Caribe. Son Caribeños. Luego esta la sectorizacion demografica por lenguaje y su raiz. Latino o latino americano. Es todo aquel nacido en el continente americano que tenga como lenguaje materno un idioma que provenga del latin y sus derivados posteriores como lo eran las lenguas romanticas (frances, italiano, español, portugues, etc) es decir que cualquier persona que tenga como lenguaje hereditario cualquiera de esos idiomas podria catalogarse como latino, un italiano es latino, solo que no de america sino de Europa, su idioma es italiano y proviene del latin. Si haces el ejercicio siguiente es facil de entender, un colombiano es americano. Mas especidicamente Del sur por lo tanto es sur americano y habla español que proviene de una lengua romance, español, que a su vez deriva del latin. Su idioma lo clasifica como latino y sumado a su region de origen da como resultado= latin + America. LatinoAmericano. En el caso de Los estadounidenses seria angloAmericano porque su idioma proviene del anglosajon y su origen es america. En el caso del hispano. Es algo mas facil de explicar y se reduce a ser mas selectivo en cuanto al idioma que habla. Todo aquel que hable español es hispano. Eso se debe a que en los tiempos romanos a España se le conocia como Hispania. Hahaha. Un colombiano puede ser hispano Latinoamericano y suramericano. Pero un brasilero puede ser latinoamericano ( idioma portuguese del latin ) suramericano (nacio en america del sur) pero no hispano porque no habla español. Espero que no haya sido tan enredado. Saludos.

[@ktbee42]

Hispania refers to the entire Iberian peninsula, which includes Portugal. Therefore Brazilians and Portuguese are Hispanic. I’m surprised this professor made this error.

[@sogno_di_carta6430]

How about this for explaining the technical meaning of Hispanic, and Latino. Hispanic= a person or country that has Spanish origins. Latino= a person or country that has Latin origins. Spain; Italy; France; Portugal; and Rumania are all Latin countries. Therefore any country that has been colonized by any of the above mentioned are of Latin origins; and any country that has been colonized by Spain is of Hispanic and Latin origins. Latin America is Latin America because Brazil and other countries of the Caribbean were not colonized by Spain. I think the professor should have gone in depth with this and the students would have understood is not an opinion or feeling to be Hispanic or Latino but is a nationality and cultural thing.

[@thomassenbart]

Why should someone embrace being called Hispanic/Latin, especially if you are not a fluent Spanish speaker and have not been raised in the culture? No, it's not cooler to pronounce Sabastian than Se'bast'iahn.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Only Ilona said she wasn't Hispanic or Latino, the rest did because that's how their community in America works. If you don't care about heritage, why assume others won't?

[@kennan6176]

​@ibrahimihsan2090 No hes saying how can you embrace and love a culture that you know nothing about and you do not participate in you do not speak the language you were Not raised in this culture how can you possibly assume ownership of it

[@StuninRub]

​@@kennan6176 You don't own a racial identity. You completely missed the point of this conversation and should listen to it again. Being Hispanic is a racial identity, you do not get choose it and despite not being able to choose, it affects them in ways that might not be very apparent. Just like how African Americans are as far from being African as possible, and yet they are tied together.

[@deborahferreira-f6u]

@@StuninRub if you watch the video, he literally mentions how hispanic is not a racial identity, but rather, an ethnic one. by your knowledge, many brazilians (among other countries) would be considered hispanics even though we are NOT

[@StuninRub]

@@deborahferreira-f6u You literally just told me it's not race, but ethnicity. All Hispanics are of Spanish descent. It's a race. Brazilians are not Hispanic because they are not descendants of the Spanish, but the Portuguese. Do you even know basic World History?

[@pep590]

Spanish is gender central as are 1000's of other languages. German, French, Russian, etc, etc.

[@Urpichachacha]

In Latinamerican countries "gringo" means someone born in US so has that culture, eventhough this person has parents from Latinamerican

[@homerosimpson9917]

Eso es así solo en Mejico.

[@thedarkenigma3834]

Gringo is a WASP.

[@Urpichachacha]

@@homerosimpson9917 I can confirm that it's not only in Mexico.

[@JillValentine2013]

@@homerosimpson9917 No es solo en México. Y en países como Brasil gringo se usa con cualquier extranjero.

[@lufax]

Gringo means any foreigner in Brazil

[@hamburgerbrain]

A lot of use of "like" to navigate difficult conversations...

[@M11969]

I know, it's grating to my ears. Hopefully they grow out of it.

[@nashbermudez1493]

That’s funny the Yo dawg thing, lol. I’m a proud American, period! I fought bad guys in Iraq for OUR country that’s how proud I am. Here’s the BLUF: the hyphen is killing American! Too much emphasis is put on what goes in front and not what’s important on the backend. People say, I’m Mexican-?, I’m African-?, I’m Italian-?, I’m blank-American. If the focus was switched to, I’m AMERICAN-Mexican (and so on), my belief is that we would put America first and not focus on one’s ethnicity, color, yada, yada. Remember this, bad guys in Iraq wanted to kill me and you (9/11, Boston bombing) for ONE reason: I was AMERICAN and they had no consideration that I was Mexican-American. The Mexican part didn’t matter to them and still doesn’t.

[@poorwotan]

Yes, yes, and again yes. I wonder if he has a lecture on that?

[@wstadlock]

Sebastian hit over 200 on the "like" counter

[@poorwotan]

Thus making a challenging drinking game... 🤣

[@96mariapol]

Yusss latinx is a north america thing we didn’t invent it, but people in mexico use X alot idk

[@elenaquerida]

You’re living in an echo chamber if you think latinx is used in Mexico

[@MrKnightslayer7]

Colleges invited it, and words get associated with the regions it derived from Aka The untied states/North America

[@ib1ray]

It is NOT used in Mexico. nice cope though.

[@LifeOutward]

I'm positive I've never seen it used in Mexico, even by progressive-types.

[@milton7763]

Can someone please explain this one to me: 19:12 “My mom and dad are both born and raised in LA. But my mom is from Mexico City and my dad is from El Salvador” Uuuhm, no! You can’t be born and raised in LA _and_ be from Mexico/El Salvador.

[@pep590]

Yes, that was funny. I caught that too.

[@poissonpuerile8897]

Actually, Sam, the English word "man" originally meant "person". That's why the word "woman" contains "man": it comes from the Old English "wifman", or "female person".

[@teslatrekker9496]

Ask me any question, any at all! "what was he saying about homophobia?" Anyone else have a different question?

[@lucasguix100]

23:40 "Brazilians are a form of hispanic" This is statement is not incorrect, portuguese speaking countries have a connection with Portugal, which was located in what was named as Hispania Lusitania. Portugal and Castille, both come from the León Kingdom, which is derivated from Asturias, the only territory that couldn't be conquered by the muslisms. The thing is that, even if Portugal has been an independent country for centuries, all the Christian Kingdoms had the same reason of expansion: *La reconquista* , and both Spain and Portugal have been inevitably connected for obvious historical and cultural reasons... so guess what, for sure they are hispanic... "another type of hispanic"... Also, Portugal and Spain where part of the same empire, the Hispanic Monarchy, during the Iberian Union (1580 to 1640) which was ruled by Philip II, Philip III and Philip IV. The term latino is not very accurate. Hispanic America or Iberian America (more used when Portuguese speaking countries are included) are terms that are a lot more accurate and have a meaning much closer to the actual History, historical events, cultural bonds, heritage, etc. The term "Latin America" was invented by the French intelectuals in late XIXth century , like Michel Chevalier, when Napoleon III was ruling. France tried to gain influence with that, later they would try to invade Mexico... "Latin America" isn't very accurate, french is a language that comes from latin but no one considers for example a person from Quebec as a latino... As a spaniard I have lots of love and affection towards Portugal and towards all spanish and portuguese speaking countries since *we are all Hispanic* , (Yes, I am including Portugal, Brazil, Angola etc...) Anyway it is true that there are some nationalities that for some people are not hispanic even if they speak spanish as their second language, such as the people from the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, of limited recognition by other states... The Phillipines don't speak spanish anymore but they have a strong influence of the Hispanic Heritage in their culture and are sometimes considered as Hispanic... Anyway the ecuatoguinean people, are hispanic and should be considered as hispanic too. My english is limited, but I hope I made myself understood for whoever that have read this. Thank you. Gracias. Obrigado.

[@jackbrown8052]

Dr. Sam Richards what you're talking about is the Trans Atlantic slave trade. Are you going to do a video on the Muslim slave trade? Over a 1,000 years of Muslims killing and taking slaves while spreading Islam? Some estimates put the number of African slaves taken by Muslims at much higher than the number taken by the Trans Atlantic slave trade.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

He didn't say Muslims didn't engage in slave trade, he just said what was relevant to the lecture Why be so hyper about it?

[@jackbrown8052]

@@ibrahimihsan2090 Because whenever the slave trade is mentioned it's always the trans Atlantic slave trade, rarely the Muslim slave trade. While spreading Islam Muslims killed and enslaved millions of Africans and Europeans. That's at least as bad as anything involving the trans Atlantic slave trade. Got to wonder why people don't like mentioning just how bad the Muslim slave trade was?

[@milton7763]

Why are US Americans so obsessed with their ‘heritage’? Nowhere else have I found people so preoccupied with where their family came from and ‘how this fits into their identity’. Except for Argentina maybe, where a lot of people seem to be obsessed with pointing out to every person they meet that their family roots are in Italy/Spain/…

[@francianogal443]

If you don't do the reading, you'll fail miserably 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@k-dwanks2481]

I think Americans think too much of mixed cultures In Nigeria, you can be mixed with white, asian etc But your Nigerian You can be yoruba through your dad and your mom igbo You are yoruba , Theres no confusion As long as your dad got married traditionally to your mom , you are from his side Except you're mother had you out of wedlock then you're part of your mothers Claaiming all this things is ok , in the west but if you're in Africa Am sorry you cant If we start claiming all the genetic links in our dna Then we should consider creating one world And be a citizen of the world And we all work for the benefit of humanity