If you are Spanish, Portuguese or Brazilian...

[Anonymous]

1. Did your DC identify as "Hispanic" on their college app?

2. Does he/she and/or your family actually identify as "Hispanic"?

Just curious!

[Anonymous]

DS identifies as Latino but not Hispanic -- DH's family is from the Azores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS identifies as Latino but not Hispanic -- DH's family is from the Azores.

Ah yes-- I should have said "Hispanic and/or Latino"

[Anonymous]

just put down black.

it's obvious you are asking what the optimal race answer is.

portuguese geneology is very mixed - you can put down black - if you go back far enough there will be someone from africa in your bloodline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

portuguese geneology is very mixed - you can put down black - if you go back far enough there will be someone from africa in your bloodline.

Maybe for Cape Verde but hardly for the Azores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:just put down black.

it's obvious you are asking what the optimal race answer is.

portuguese geneology is very mixed - you can put down black - if you go back far enough there will be someone from africa in your bloodline.

That's true for literally everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:just put down black.

it's obvious you are asking what the optimal race answer is.

portuguese geneology is very mixed - you can put down black - if you go back far enough there will be someone from africa in your bloodline.

Very helpful

[Anonymous]

1. Yes
2. I don't know what this means

[Anonymous]

Isn't someone from Spain by definition Hispanic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Yes
2. I don't know what this means

OP means that what you put on your college application does not always match how you actually identify....but I think you got that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't someone from Spain by definition Hispanic?

There are different definitions, but, yes, typically. Brazilian and Portuguese, however, are not always included in that definition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't someone from Spain by definition Hispanic?

I thought they were European bc they're from Europe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't someone from Spain by definition Hispanic?

I thought they were European bc they're from Europe

Hispanic isn't the same thing as Latino. Hispanic means of Spanish culture or heritage. Latino means from Latin American countries (Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean). One can be Hispanic and Latino (I'm part Cuban), only Hispanic (from Spain or it's OLD World territories), or only Latino (Brazilian, Haitian, Aruban, Jamaican, etc.)
--ABD in Latin American History and Latina

[Anonymous]

The U.S. Census Bureau defines the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race"

[Anonymous]

So a rich white kid from a wealthy white family in Argentina or Chile or Uruguay (which are among the "whitest" countries in the world, ironically), can claim to be Hispanic and gain AA benefits?

Anonymous wrote:The U.S. Census Bureau defines the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race"

As it is I suspect the admissions panels are pretty good at spotting the difference between a white Hispanic and non-white Hispanic. I doubt a white applicant whose parents came to America from Spain or Argentina is going to get much of a boost, if any.