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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because a good majority of them do not consider themselves Latino/a. They consider themselves White.[/quote]
That’s a lie. Most of us consider ourselves neither. We consider ourselves Brazilian, Cuban, Peruvian etc. Americans don’t understand what it is to have a strong CULTURAL and NATIONAL identity. Everything is race, race, race here. Race isn’t anything to base identity on where we come from because no one is one race. My mom looks like Soledad O’Brien, my Dad looks like ARod and my siblings and I range from “white” looking to Indio-looking and one of us is a brown-skinned mulatta in looks. What is our race? Should my sister vote with African Americans and my brother vote with white southerners? The question of race has no meaning. We vote or culture. Strong values, hard work, entrepreneurship, family first and last.[/quote]

NP. And yet, income and opportunities are based on the complexion of your skin in those countries. The lighter the complexion, the greater the income and wealth. So yes, many if not most do consider themselves white followed by mestizo t

On a visit to Cuba many years ago, the darker Cubans were not allowed to be in front-facing tourism positions. The lighter, whiter Cubans were the waitresses interacting with the tourist. It was better to be whitish and identify as such than not. The darker Cubans were in the back cooking and washing the dishes. It was noticed throughout my travel. As a stupid, dumb, naive, college freshman at FSU, I met my first Cuban, blind and blue-eyes. Stupid me said something like, “wow, I thought you guys were Hispanic, not white.”  His response was, “I am both white and Hispanic.” True that. Giselle Bundshen identifies as as white, Brazilian woman. So YMMV in your family, but in my long-life, almost all the white identifying Hispanics, identify as white while also identifying their background ethnicity. [/quote]

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