#AMERICAS: "LATINO." MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY WSJ
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:33.7 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome Mary Anastasia O'Grady, the America's editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal editorial board, observing the recent presidential election. Mary, I learned from you for the first time the term Latino. It's not forever. I've always puzzled about it. Where did it come from? What does it mean? Good evening to you. |
| 0:55.9 | Good evening, John. Well, apparently it was used in the 19th century at some point, but it came back into fashion toward the end of the 20th century, maybe starting in 1970. |
| 1:07.6 | And then over the next like three decades, it became more used and eventually found its way onto the U.S. census. |
| 1:17.7 | Yes, the puzzle here is the recent vote, the Latino vote, it doesn't really exist, if I understand correctly. |
| 1:25.6 | It's all these particulars |
| 1:27.6 | that don't describe anything real. |
| 1:30.6 | Is that the way to understand it, Mary? |
| 1:32.4 | Well, this is a long-time gripe of mine, |
| 1:35.1 | so I was glad to finally put it down on paper. |
| 1:37.7 | But if you spend any time in the region, |
| 1:40.2 | what you'll notice is that there is no monolithic Latino. There's no such thing as this person. |
| 1:46.9 | And as I theorized in my column, this is basically a label that was created so that government could |
| 1:56.2 | give legal preferences to a group of people and thereby carve out a political constituency. |
| 2:02.2 | You know, if I check the box and say I'm Latino, I get certain privileges because I have |
| 2:07.2 | been long oppressed. And I think that's completely false. You know, if you spend any time in the |
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