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Old Posted Jan 29, 2020, 3:34 AM
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Originally Posted by PFloyd View Post
The 'hispanic' term has been used erroneously from the beginning. It really should be used as a cultural classification and not racial.

People in North America often forget that 'Latin' America is also a 'melting pot' of peoples from all over the world, including the native indigenous population.

There are people with blonde hair, blue eyes with northern European ancestry in every country in Latin America, the same way there are people with African, and Asian ancestry. The proportions of European immigrants were obviously different than what arrived in the US and Canada. The levels of mixing with the natives was also much higher.

Even the 'Latin' term is misleading, as well. It was probably an attempt to differentiate Spanish/Portuguese speaking America, from English speaking America (or Anglo America).
I hear a lot about blonde hair blue eyed people in Latin America. Maybe we should give it a rest. Even when people think of Greece, they don’t envision blond hair and blue eyes. Latin America is an overwhelmingly mixed geographical region. Of the minority that would be considered “white”, blond hair etc would be rare. IMO, if one might consider Turkish/Armenian people to be on the borderline of white, Latin America has about 80 million. Of that, probably 5% have blond hair and blue eyes. In the big picture, no one really cares if they exist there, because they are not wholly representative of the region in any way.

As far as the Hispanic category in the census. It’s pointless. Might as well have categories for every language group origin. The problem is with Hispanic people’s tendency to stretch whiteness a little to much, which would skew the results. They need to realize, there’s nothing wrong with being part black or part native, even if you could pass otherwise by the slimmest margins.
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