Bbucko
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Latino is definitely my flavor of men for many reasons unrelated to dick size, which is irrelevant except in as much as I prefer average/smaller-hung guys.
Probably the main pull is an almost-guarantee of not being circumcised, which is my preference.
But I am also very fond of the culture, music, foods and attitudes commonly associated with Latinos, which is diametrically opposed to my own as a New England Swamp Yankee. Polarities can either be highly complementary or really toxic, and over the years have found both.
The Mexicans I've met seem to be the least attached to their cultural heritage, but I think that living on the East Coast probably has something to do with that. Caribbeans seem the most in-touch with their roots, South Americans fall somewhere in between. Of course this also depends on how long they've lived here and whether or not their families live here as well or not.
I've always strongly disagreed with people (including the US Government) who insist that Latinos are a different race. Racial differences (such as they exist) are genetic, not linguistic. And the only thing Latinos have in common is a common language: Spanish (and of course, Brazilians are the exception with that gorgeous Portuguese they speak).
My mother's second husband was Puerto Rican (Newyorican, actually), and it was a big joke between them that his passport listed him as "Non-white" despite the fact that her skin tone was darker than his.
Racial ambiguity is nothing new in the US, and is actually rather fluid. It wasn't really all that long ago that Italians were considered not-quite-white, although any suggestion of that today would be considered the very height of bigotry. In the 1920s my grandmother was forbidden from marrying a gentleman from Puerto Rico by her stern Yankee father, and when her brother married an Italian woman he was disinherited!
Probably the main pull is an almost-guarantee of not being circumcised, which is my preference.
But I am also very fond of the culture, music, foods and attitudes commonly associated with Latinos, which is diametrically opposed to my own as a New England Swamp Yankee. Polarities can either be highly complementary or really toxic, and over the years have found both.
The Mexicans I've met seem to be the least attached to their cultural heritage, but I think that living on the East Coast probably has something to do with that. Caribbeans seem the most in-touch with their roots, South Americans fall somewhere in between. Of course this also depends on how long they've lived here and whether or not their families live here as well or not.
I've always strongly disagreed with people (including the US Government) who insist that Latinos are a different race. Racial differences (such as they exist) are genetic, not linguistic. And the only thing Latinos have in common is a common language: Spanish (and of course, Brazilians are the exception with that gorgeous Portuguese they speak).
My mother's second husband was Puerto Rican (Newyorican, actually), and it was a big joke between them that his passport listed him as "Non-white" despite the fact that her skin tone was darker than his.
Racial ambiguity is nothing new in the US, and is actually rather fluid. It wasn't really all that long ago that Italians were considered not-quite-white, although any suggestion of that today would be considered the very height of bigotry. In the 1920s my grandmother was forbidden from marrying a gentleman from Puerto Rico by her stern Yankee father, and when her brother married an Italian woman he was disinherited!