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I'm excited about this next guest because this guy is an outspoken
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activist that's currently popping up on Tik Tok,
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right? He's challenging the way we refer to different ethnicities,
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they call us Mexican American,
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right? There's native Americans,
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African Americans. You know what?
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But let's let him explain,
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Let's welcome Angel De La Rosa.
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Hey, so we saw your recent viral video.
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There were so many confused European Americans wondering why I call them
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European American instead of just American in my other post.
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We have questions. OK.
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So tell us what is a European American,
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a European American? I know too many.
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It might sound like a confusing term at first,
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but in reality, it's pretty straightforward.
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A European American is an American of European descent,
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which is most of the US.
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So it sounds confusing,
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but it's pretty, it's a pretty simple term.
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I come home. He was like,
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oh, yeah, like our family is originally from Poland,
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but I've never heard of these refer to themselves as European Americans
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we're white. I'm like,
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But interesting. Ok.
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So why are you really?
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From? Exactly. They always ask us like,
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No, you really never,
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we never asked white people where they're from.
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We just assume they're white.
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that's a good turn the tables on them.
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why do you think white Americans get to be the default historically
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the victors of battles and wars are the ones that dictate
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the rules. You know,
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most people in positions of power,
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you know, politicians,
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police officers, you know,
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senators, governors, they're white.
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Like I said, they're the ones that set the rules.
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They're the ones that lay out the foundations of education,
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they're the ones that run everything.
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that's why that's my,
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that's my theory. Well,
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what was your breaking point that like drove you to make this
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it's always been a thing really.
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it's really just common sense calling them European American people would always
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go into my comments say,
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oh, African Americans,
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native Americans, I always thought the term native American is really
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weird because if you really want to get technical about it,
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they're just American. Like if,
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if there's any people that are just American like the default,
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like you guys say it's indigenous people,
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right? They're just American,
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you know, oh gee you know,
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I'm not Mexican American,
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I'm actually from Mexico.
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but people would always call me Mexican American.
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one thing, that one other thing is Mexico isn't America.
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America is a continent.
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That's another thing. You know,
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if you guys really want to get technical,
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you know, America is a continent from the top of Alaska
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down to Argentina. At least that's how they teach it in
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schools here and Mexico and the rest of other Spanish speaking countries
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America is just one continent and people are,
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I always just hear people say,
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oh yeah, African Americans.
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I remember there was a Trump rally where Donald Trump is like
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oh look at my African American over there,
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look at my African American.
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I'm just, it's just weird.
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but they're not from Africa,
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you know, like it's just,
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it's always been weird to me.
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Oh yeah, he's asian-american.
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Yeah, he's he's Japanese American.
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He's, he's he's Mexican American.
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white people are just American.
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no, no. You guys are you guys?
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I would always hear white people say,
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I'm Polish, I'm Irish.
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I'm German. I'm 1/16 Cherokee and they're all proud about it
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You know, it's like fucking old.
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you know, own up to it.
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You're European American, you know,
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there's nothing wrong with that.
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And I mean, obviously a lot of people resonated with this
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and had thoughts, I mean,
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1.2 million views and counting what response we received from the comment
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the, the general reaction was white people were confused.
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They were confused at first,
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but then they're like,
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you know what? You have a point.
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Yeah, that does make sense.
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And then the consensus from,
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from Mexicans living in Mexico like,
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yeah, bro, we've always caught them Europeans.
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Do you think we'll ever get to a place where we drop
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the hyphens and we can all just be American.
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Unfortunately, here in Mexico,
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everyone's just Mexican. You know,
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there's black Mexicans, there's Asian Mexicans,
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there's white Mexicans, there's indigenous,
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but everyone's just Mexican,
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you know, I just think the USA is hyper fixated
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on race unfortunately and,
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it always has been Mexico has,
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has its own problems for sure,
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is just fixated on race.
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It is just fixated on race.
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It's just crazy to me.
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So, no, I don't think any time soon.
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What's your mission in calling out this double standard?
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Just to bring awareness.
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Like I said, people,
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man, one thing that I've noticed from,
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since I started making videos is that people live in the bubble
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People live in such a bubble.
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They don't know what's going on in their own backyard,
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you know. Like I have people commenting things about Mexico
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They've never even left Kansas.
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Oh, I would never go to Mexico.
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It's too dangerous. The cartels,
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chill. Like no one's worried about you.
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You know, there's just so much people live in bubbles.
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There's people that are so sheltered and so afraid of the world
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They're just so afraid because once you travel,
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you know, once you see other things,
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you know, once you travel the world,
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you realize how sheltered people are.
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It's crazy. You know,
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it's just insane to me.
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How can you judge a place that you've never been to?
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It's the same thing with whole European Americans.
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People have never heard that term for.
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They're not used to being labeled like they label everybody else,
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they're just like they break down completely and we really thank you
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for coming on today Angel where people follow you and,
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and you know, keep up on your videos.
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My tiktok is mini Poppy X and so is my Instagram.
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My Instagram is mini poppy X,
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all one word. All lower case.
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Mini poppy Xak Angel.
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Thank you so much again and we'll see you soon.
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