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During the Spanish Inquisition, the descendants of Jews and Muslims were targeted the most. This policy was called Limpieza de sangre (Blood Cleansing). Even after a Jew or a Muslim (Muwallad, an Arab or a Berber) converted to Christianity, the contemporary Spanish authorities referred to them and their descendants as New Christians, and as a result, they were the targets of popular and ...
Anti-Spanish sentiment is the fear, distrust, hatred of, aversion to, or discrimination against Spanish people, culture, or nationhood.. Instances of anti-Spanish prejudice, often embedded within anti-Catholic prejudice and propaganda, were stoked in Europe in the early modern period, pursuant to the Spanish Crown's status as a power siding with the Counter-Reformation.
A 2017 poll found that 55% of white Americans believe that white people face discrimination. [95] A 2022 poll found that 64% of Republicans polled said white people experience a fair amount of hate or discrimination in society. [96] A 2023 YouGov poll found that of Trump 2020 voters, 73% say that racism against white Americans is a problem. [97]
Many wanted to know why I felt it important enough to mention that she was white. White people invented the very concept of whiteness, but they hate when you bring up the word white in any situation.
The Spanish–American War in 1898 as the point of origin of anti-Americanism in Spain has been a common theme of historiography of the topic, although the extent has been recently disputed, [4] [5] as negative stereotypes about the United States and Americans date as far back as the US Declaration of Independence in 1776. [6]
In the 1990s, anthropologist-linguist Jane H. Hill of the University of Arizona suggested that "Mock Spanish" is a form of racist discourse. [5] Hill asserted, with anecdotal evidence, that "middle- and upper-income, college-educated whites" casually use Spanish-influenced language in way that native Spanish speakers were likely to find insulting. [2]
Following President Joe Biden‘s inauguration, the White House‘s official website has promptly re-instated a Spanish version of its website.
The cartoon "Dilbert" has been dropped from numerous U.S. newspapers in response to a racist rant by its creator on YouTube. Scott Adams called Black Americans a "hate group" and suggested white ...