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[quote=Anonymous]Anyone who's spent time in Chile (or Argentina or Uruguay) will know these are pretty...."white" countries. I think statistically speaking they are even "whiter" than the United States. The bulk of the population looks virtually no different from Italians or Spanish or southern French.

I have known a fair few Chileans and Argentinians over the years and they all considered themselves "white." Their culture was "Latino" as they identified with the culture of the European Mediterranean world and ancestral heritage in Southern Europe (as well as all the German/Irish emigrants who adopted the "Latino" lifestyle). Plenty of blond haired, blue eyed South Americans ;)

I bring this up because I firmly believe that the purpose of "Hispanic" in the use of affirmative action admissions was to help people from low income, lowly educated backgrounds primarily of Mexican / Central American or Caribbean heritage (as well as that of the American Southwest) and whose racial origins reflected a strong intermingling of Native American and European settler populations. This is quite different from the practically "purebred" South Americans of European heritage. This was a group that had historically been discriminated against in America.

Tick whatever box you feel comfortable, but frankly, someone from a comfortably off Chilean background trying to use "hispanic" to game the affirmative action system is being somewhat unethical.

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