What do people mean by White Hispanic?

[Anonymous]

I'm French, OP, and most Europeans, included Spaniards, are Caucasian/white. Even the tanned ones. A lot of Europeans migrated at various times to the Americas. Hence the Caucasian Hispanics (and Brazilians).

To not be a Caucasian Hispanic, you need a hefty dose of native American/Indian/African/Islander bloodlines mixed in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hispanic is a culture. White is a race.

I'm white Hispanic and I never know how to answer these rac(ist) questions on the forms.

Latino/Hispanic is always a separate category from race precisely to allow for black or white. What about the forms is difficult for you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hispanic is a culture. White is a race.

I'm white Hispanic and I never know how to answer these rac(ist) questions on the forms.

Latino/Hispanic is always a separate category from race precisely to allow for black or white. What about the forms is difficult for you?

Not Pp, but you do realize that people are brown right? Or caramel or any of the other shades in between?

Are you trolling

[Anonymous]

White Hispanics includes both White Spaniards and White Latinos with Spanish ancestry. I wouldn’t consider someone whose German or Italian great-grandparents stepped off a boat in Latin America in the 1930s just long enough to get papers to come to the US, a Latino.

[Anonymous]

My family - Eastern European Jews who went to Argentina when many others came to the U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White Hispanics includes both White Spaniards and White Latinos with Spanish ancestry. I wouldn’t consider someone whose German or Italian great-grandparents stepped off a boat in Latin America in the 1930s just long enough to get papers to come to the US, a Latino.

This is beyond ignorant. Many Germans and Italiand stepped off a boat in Latin America and stayed in Latin America!

[Anonymous]

Another white Argentine checking in- my family is 100% Scottish with a very Scottish last name, imagine people's surprise when I explain. Americans are very sheltered.

Surprised there are so many argentines on this board!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White Hispanics includes both White Spaniards and White Latinos with Spanish ancestry. I wouldn’t consider someone whose German or Italian great-grandparents stepped off a boat in Latin America in the 1930s just long enough to get papers to come to the US, a Latino.

Lol this is one of the dumbest things I have ever read on this site.

[Anonymous]

Question for other white hispanics- did you apply to schools as hispanic? I did. And I will try to get my kids to, though sometimes I feel guilty about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White Hispanics includes both White Spaniards and White Latinos with Spanish ancestry. I wouldn’t consider someone whose German or Italian great-grandparents stepped off a boat in Latin America in the 1930s just long enough to get papers to come to the US, a Latino.

What a stupid comment. Their language originates from Latin. They are Latino!

- signed, descendent of South-American Italians

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hispanic is a culture. White is a race.

I'm white Hispanic and I never know how to answer these rac(ist) questions on the forms.

Me kinda- I’m brown Hispanic. I don’t consider my race white. I consider it Latino/Hispanic even though it doesn’t make sense.

My husband is also a brown latino but brown isn’t a race so he has to pick between black or white. He sometimes puts black sometimes white. For our son he always says white.

My DH is Latino and is definitely not white or black. So it’s weird that there is no on-between on forms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hispanic is a culture. White is a race.

I'm white Hispanic and I never know how to answer these rac(ist) questions on the forms.

Me kinda- I’m brown Hispanic. I don’t consider my race white. I consider it Latino/Hispanic even though it doesn’t make sense.

My husband is also a brown latino but brown isn’t a race so he has to pick between black or white. He sometimes puts black sometimes white. For our son he always says white.

My DH is Latino and is definitely not white or black. So it’s weird that there is no on-between on forms.

I believe the in between is Native American, which you presumably are if you're hispanic and not white or black.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White Hispanics includes both White Spaniards and White Latinos with Spanish ancestry. I wouldn’t consider someone whose German or Italian great-grandparents stepped off a boat in Latin America in the 1930s just long enough to get papers to come to the US, a Latino.

This is beyond ignorant. Many Germans and Italiand stepped off a boat in Latin America and stayed in Latin America!

Those whose ancestors stayed at least a generation are Latinos. Those whose forebears used Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Cuba as a brief stop on their journey to the US are not. My friend who is Vietnamese lived in France for 18 months as a toddler. That doesn’t make her kids French.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White Hispanics includes both White Spaniards and White Latinos with Spanish ancestry. I wouldn’t consider someone whose German or Italian great-grandparents stepped off a boat in Latin America in the 1930s just long enough to get papers to come to the US, a Latino.

What a stupid comment. Their language originates from Latin. They are Latino!

- signed, descendent of South-American Italians

Do you consider the French to be Latinos? Seriously though, you know that is not what the US government, institutions of higher learning, and private employers mean when they say Latino.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White Hispanics includes both White Spaniards and White Latinos with Spanish ancestry. I wouldn’t consider someone whose German or Italian great-grandparents stepped off a boat in Latin America in the 1930s just long enough to get papers to come to the US, a Latino.

This is beyond ignorant. Many Germans and Italiand stepped off a boat in Latin America and stayed in Latin America!

Those whose ancestors stayed at least a generation are Latinos. Those whose forebears used Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Cuba as a brief stop on their journey to the US are not. My friend who is Vietnamese lived in France for 18 months as a toddler. That doesn’t make her kids French.

That is such a very, very small percentage. You have no idea what you're talking about.