Paola Ramos
speaker
728 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 Sep
Paola Ramos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 1.
Appearances
But it's all to me and that's why like,
When I write these books or when I try and make sense of the things, I talk to scientists and psychologists because it's not politics.
It's the feeling.
It's all about this visceral feeling.
Well, yes, but also if you take a step back and you look at who Latinos are today versus who they were, say, when my dad was starting his career in the United States, we've changed so much.
The majority of Latinos right now, the majority are U.S.
born.
The majority speak English, not Spanish.
It's third generation Latinas that are the fastest growing segment among us.
And so what that means is that we are so much more Americanized and assimilated than when people think.
There was a story 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, that really centered our solidarity among this immigrant story, because it was closer to us.
And it made sense that we were a community, we were a tribe, but that kind of is disappearing.
And we are more American.
My siblings, my brother barely speaks, or my dad hates it, but he barely speaks Spanish.
And so all this to say that I think Trumpism also bets on that idea, that there is a small segment and a growing segment of Latinos that are so Americanized that they too can sort of buy into the us versus them game, to your point.
And it is true.
And then on top of that, I do think that there are certain kind of like psychological and like historic things that we have as Latinos that we never talk about, right?
All the racial baggage that we carry from Latin America, like it's so complex, right?
Like we come from countries where like the Spaniards and the colonizers institutionalized caste systems, right?
Where we have been taught to sort of see
Showing 461–480 of 728 · page 24 of 37
← Previous
Next →