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I think you are misunderstanding me.  I understand perfectly well that Hispanic is a culture and NOT a race.  That is the entire point of my question.  People often use the term Hispanic as if it were a race.  If you showed someone a picture of Giselle and asked what her race was, people would say White which is correct.  [b]If you showed someone a picture of Ricky Martin and asked what his race is people would say Hispanic[/b], which is incorrect, because Hispanic refers to culture.  How then should one describe Ricky Martin's race?  Mestizo is the most accurate description but is not commonly used.  Hispanic is commonly used but inaccurate.  I just don't really understand why there is not both an accurate and commonly used descriptor to describe the race of such people. [/quote]

If you showed someone a picture of Ricky Martin and asked what his race is, people who didn't know that he was Ricky Martin would say that he was white. We European-heritage people aren't all blond blue-eyed Nordics.[/quote]

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