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This. I was trying to prove a point earlier by saying that Latin American countries have very mixed and racially diverse populations but their cultures are still partly Euro derived and it's not just because of a colonial past. Europe still influences a lot of their cultures. There is back and forth and continued immigration too. It's not as though Spain or Southern Europe's influence is over.
I was also saying that I noticed that a Dominican who is black would probably have cultural similarities and understandings with people from Spain or Southern Europe. There wouldn't be a world's apart disconnect.
I still stand by my initial assumption that a lot of the talk by some posters about whiteness and Europe in LatAm stems from deep insecurities that most probably aren't held as much by real Latin Americans who understand their roots a bit more and their diverse cultures. A lot of the talk by some posters reeks of Atzlan/Chicano Mecha talk.
Latin America is closer to Europe, and I have been in both continents.
The US is like China, everything is different, Latin America is more traditionally European, Catholic.
You have not been north of Torremolinos except Lepe.
No I have never been to Torremolinos in my life lol. Are you trying to troll me? 🤣
I wouldn't mind going there someday. I love Spain so one day I will go back and visit the entire country!
In many places in Latin America people do deny their indigenous heritage, or at the very least do not acknowledge it
Because humans are like that. When barbarians, vikings and such became civilized and Christian, they denied any relation with "savages". Just as British, they only have a scant minority of Anglo-Saxon influence and until a few decades ago, they denied any brytonnic -celtic culture-heritage. For British, Celtic was an insult used against Irish.
Take Germans, Hungarians, etc, they never say that most come from Asia, etc.
Take the Roman Empire, by the year 262 we were all Roman citizens, and the difference between Italics and Rome itself disappeared.
Because humans are like that. When barbarians, vikings and such became civilized and Christian, they denied any relation with "savages". Just as British, they only have a scant minority of Anglo-Saxon influence and until a few decades ago, they denied any brytonnic -celtic culture-heritage. For British, Celtic was an insult used against Irish.
Take Germans, Hungarians, etc, they never say that most come from Asia, etc.
Take the Roman Empire, by the year 262 we were all Roman citizens, and the difference between Italics and Rome itself disappeared.
This peaked my interest because I met a few Germans that looked a tiny bit central Asian which I though was weird. They looked a 1/4 Asian or something. They weren't mixed though they just looked a bit Eastern European or central Asian.
Read about Huns, Magyars, Alans....Soviet troops, etc.
Ancient Germans, the ones that moved to western Europe 1500 years ago, were the buffer zone between the Roman empire and Mongolic, Alanic and Slavic tribes....when they moved to the sunny side....all those people came rushing in.
The "Aryan" model is very minoritary in German and not from Germania, as they came from Jutland after the fall of the Roman empire.
I'm Hispanic (only one parent is, though), and because I am very light-skinned I've often had trouble getting accepted by mestizos as Hispanic (my Spanish is not as good as my English and it's accented).
The US messes with people in so many ways, its not even funny.
The OP actually used to stress and worry about racial stuff. Only in the USA.
I'm glad the OP outgrew that 'phase' and finally came to grips with him/herself.
Spain and Portugal created counties with three-cultures since the very inception, imposing Roman law
as To achieve integration, to make them legal subjects. Tha's why older LT are stable, have a Single languaGe, religion, and are nations as Europeans notions are.
While the US are centrigugal nationa that tend to creare disfunction, facism and brake apart, as they model was that seizib conquesr and kikking and kikking, as saxons, bt they ar are dissappering and of the racial US nation is measured by a countdown
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I'm Hispanic (only one parent is, though), and because I am very light-skinned I've often had trouble getting accepted by mestizos as Hispanic (my Spanish is not as good as my English and it's accented).
In my opinion there is a lot of reverse racism too.
I know being white and from the Caribbean in Canada in school other kids from the Caribbean would give me a hard time. A lot of them also came from more oppressed or lower income situations where their families are from in the Caribbean and were not really exposed to people that look like me or my family from the Caribbean even if from the same country. I also think there was a sense of animosity. For example we might have been from a similar cultural background, but I was not a visible minority so I did not have to deal with any noticeable racism. People just thought I was Italian like most of the other kids in school. For some reason at times some of them expected me to confirm with whatever nonsense they thought I was suppose to like or do. They also were also young and I really doubt they think like that anymore.
Don't let other people define you. You don't need to act more like anything. Stand firm as who you are.
By the way there is a problem with this DNA results. Many people has probably not even realize this. But, there is a lot of Chinese and Japanese heritage in Cuba. So, how come it doesn't show up and instead I see native American. My province of Granma is full of people of Asian heritage, and what do I see Native American heritage. Where are all of the chinese I met in Cuba.
And all of this test are the same. Which has led me to believe they are confusing Asian with Native American due to the perception of others countries that Latin Americans must have native american heritage and not Asian.
I once heard they can't really tell the difference between the two since technically they are the same race. They only quest based on demographics which one you might be.
I wish I could bring this issue to someone, maybe George Lopez.
Cubans of East Asian descent are a minority, about 1% of the population. Such a small number wouldn't really register in the averages. There's likely far more Cubans of North African/Middle Eastern/West Asian ancestry though I don't know to what degree if any, they would be represented in that graph.
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