Antedating of "Hispanic"

[victor steinbok]

Are Cambodian and Hmong immigrants "Asian-Americans"? By all standards
they should be, but they are often completely excluded from
Asian-American stereotypes. Even the history of Vietnamese and Thai
immigrants is usually ignored in favor of East Asians. On the other
hand, in bigoted eyes, they are all "Oriental". Are the bigots more
progressive than well-meaning but ignorant multiculturalists from the
Departments of the Interior, Education and Labor?

VS-)

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Aren't Dominican-Americans or Colombian-Americans or Panamanian-Americans as Hispanic as Cuban-Americans or Mexican-Americans or people of Puerto Rican origin?
>
> Fred Shapiro

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