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Originally Posted by liat91
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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Hence my earlier point about racial categories not being rational. Racial categories are centered on "white". It's a social measurement, not a scientific one:
black + black = black
black + white = black
white + white = white
A person can have mostly European ancestry and still be black, but a person cannot have mostly African ancestry and be white. If you understand that then you can understand that whatever percentage of European ancestry that Hispanics have is irrelevant. Whether Hispanics are white just depends on whether other people accept them as white.