What do people mean by White Hispanic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges are interested in cultural diversity, not just racial diversity.

Except they don’t want Asian students.

[Anonymous]

I consider myself white Hispanic and mark forms that way. I am from Spain, born from Spanish parents. My children are half Spanish (as my husband is American). But they too are white Hispanic and I mark them as such as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are people with direct lineage to Spain, which is a European country.

Also, other European countries. There are many Germans in south America. Gisele Bundchen, for example, is a sixth-generation pure German Brazilian. Her mother's last name was Nonnenmacher, also German.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are people with direct lineage to Spain, which is a European country.

Also, other European countries. There are many Germans in south America. Gisele Bundchen, for example, is a sixth-generation pure German Brazilian. Her mother's last name was Nonnenmacher, also German.

Right, that's the weird part. Just being born in Argentina gets you "Hispanic", even if you are a direct descendant of German Nazis (let's be honest) on both sides

[Anonymous]

What if you are native Mestizo born but light skin with no European connection or known ancestry?

[Anonymous]

One word describes their race, one their ethnicity. Why is that challenging to understand?

[Anonymous]

It's so fuzzy. Most people in Mexico and Brazil, for example, are a mix of European (mostly Spanish) and Indigenous ancestry. Some communities are purely indigenous and some are purely European, but most people are some kind of mix. Meanwhile, places like Argentina and Uruguay have a lot of straight Europeans, and not just Spanish (lots of Germans, Italians, etc, often blond-haired and blue-eyed). They are Spanish-speaking but are physically white Europeans. While the people from Caribbean/Island places that speak Spanish (DR, Puerto Rico, Cuba) more often have Black ancestry mixed in with Indigenous and Spanish.

Of course, there are also newer immigrant communities in Latin American countries that complicate things even more - Japanese people born in Peru, for example, or Lebanese people born in Colombia.

TLDR race is a social construct and loses meaning under the slightest scrutiny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One word describes their race, one their ethnicity. Why is that challenging to understand?

What makes it challenging is that a lot of people in the US who identify as Hispanic are a mix of white and indigenous ancestry (this comes from Mexico being the dominant source of of Hispanics in the US, and most Mexicans having that type of background). Hispanic has become a proxy for that racial mix, which is not considered white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if you are native Mestizo born but light skin with no European connection or known ancestry?

Mestizo means mixed European and Indigenous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What if you are native Mestizo born but light skin with no European connection or known ancestry?

Mestizo means mixed European and Indigenous.

Right, I don't understand how you could be Mestizo with no European connection?

[Anonymous]

It’s long past time to move beyond categorizing people by race. This is all becoming quickly pointless and ridiculous. I am Indian American with half Jewish kids.

If you don’t think so look at that jackass Fuentes who met with Trump and Kanye over the weekend. He has two Mexican parents but considers himself a white supremacist. I don’t know what the heck Kanye is, but he’s clearly antisemitic. Or look at the Persian American who called an Uber driver the N word, only to proclaim she is white.

I personally favor affirmative action for first generation and low income kids, but not based on race. It’s the not thing that makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I consider myself white Hispanic and mark forms that way. I am from Spain, born from Spanish parents. My children are half Spanish (as my husband is American). But they too are white Hispanic and I mark them as such as well.

Will they get a boost in university admissions?

Should they get a boost or advantage over white Europeans, since whites benefit from unearned white privilege, but all others are oppressed by whites?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if you are native Mestizo born but light skin with no European connection or known ancestry?

Mestizo means mixed European and Indigenous.

Right, I don't understand how you could be Mestizo with no European connection?

Your family has no direct connection or ancestry to Europe. All known ancestors were born in native country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if you are native Mestizo born but light skin with no European connection or known ancestry?

The vast majority of Mestizos have European ancestry. Just look up YouTube videos of dna test reveals made by Hispanics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What if you are native Mestizo born but light skin with no European connection or known ancestry?

The vast majority of Mestizos have European ancestry. Just look up YouTube videos of dna test reveals made by Hispanics.

After a certain number of generations back, can you still count it if no one in the present or in the last great great grandparent down were European?