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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]title says it all.[/quote]

Hispanic is a cultural/ethnic classification.   Fractions don't make sense in this context.  They might if we were talking about biology, but we're not.  Are you Hispanic?  Is that your culture of origin?

For example, if you were raised by your abuela, who was raised by her abuela who was from Peru.  And your abuela learned Spanish from her, and spoke it to you so that you grew up bilingual, and shared the traditions of her childhood with you, and raised you with other elements of Peruvian culture.  Then you're Hispanic.  Not 1/16th Hispanic.  You are Hispanic American.  Because that's what the term means.  An American whose has strong cultural connections to a Spanish speaking country in Latin America.

On the other hand, if you have 2 parents, a mom who was a recent immigrant from El Salvador, but left you and your father when you were too little to remember, and you grew up immersed in his Irish or Jewish or Cajun family and culture?  Then you're not Hispanic.  You're whatever you were raised.[/quote]

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