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German, Polish, etc. is European & White Caucasian.
Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese are Mongoloid, all belonging to the same race.
Puerto-Ricans, Mexicans, etc. are composed of a majority mestizo mutt population (Mostly Indian native with Spaniard thrown in). A small minority in Latin America are white caucasian. And an even larger minority are one-hundred percent Indian "native". This is minus the countries of Argentina, Uruguay, and the south of Brazil, where there are white caucasian majorities.
I disagree with you. Puerto Ricans are not composed of mainly Indian Native. Puerto Ricans are made up of Blacks (Africans), Whites (Spain) and Indians (Taino) That is why many Puerto Ricans look Biracial. Some may look White, Black, or even Indian.
^^^ Many people think Latin America is racially harmonized when in reality it isnt, they have plenty of problems with race, and its worse than the united states.
Many people think Latin America is racially harmonized when in reality it isnt, they have plenty of problems with race, and its worse than the united states.
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Originally Posted by ABQConvict
Unfortunately, racism is a terrible problem all over Latin America...
And it's exactly the lack of a solid, separate identity like that of the Blacks in the USA, that renders anything comparable to the "Civil Rights Movement" almost impossible.
Brazil has tried to introduce Affirmative Action, yet such thing is -regardless of whether you support it or not- difficult to implement because they can't even agree on who is Black and who is not.
So Latin American societies easily remain oblivious to their minorities, and these can hardly gain recognition for the reason mentioned.
It's true that the US is a very race conscious society, but the existence of such grouping facilitates the minority to gain recognition.
If you look at the situation in many Latin American countries, those who are not White don't really have a separate identity; thus it's difficult to gain recognition and so they remained invisible.
I'm not saying that there are no changes. It's just that some things are harder to achieve exactly for the lack of such open racism as in the US.
It's difficult for many countries to accept other races because they don't even realize or even deny the existence of others.
Well I personally believe that Latin American deserve their own race.
They are categorized as "white" by the US census bureau.
They are obviously (many of them, I know many of them ARE) white.
I am Latino or half anyways, and I don't believe that we should be categorized as "white"
Bolivans... NOT white, if anything they look closer to Southeastern Asian people.
One of these pictures is a pic of Peruvians Children one of Filipino Children, Which one is which?:
Now granted, I've been to Mexico.
I KNOW there are people who might've been as well been born in Sweden.
But Culturally and for the most part ethnically.
They're not white.
so while they're not officially a "race", most people regard them as such.
When you say "white", you think of someone from Germany.
Not Mexico.
Now i can see WHY they would sub categorize them as white.
But the people of Peru vs the people of Argentina are world apart.
Peru consists mainly of Indigenous people (who supposedly came from Asia), while many Argentinians killed the natives are are mostly of Spanish, German, and Italian decent. Brazil, on the other hand has a significant population of African Americans.
So I really think they SHOULD create a "Hispanic Race", because at the rate we're going we'll sub catagorize the blackest black man on the planet as "white" because he's from Brazil.
But...to each his own.
They're not categorized as white. Latinos can be of any race: White (Alexis Bledel), black (David Ortiz), Asian (Bruce Chen), etc.
They're only white if they CHOOSE to put that down. There's also "other," "two or more races," and the other racial categories. It's a COMBINATIOn of both race and ETHNICITY (which, in this case, is latino).
I seriously doubt baseball players Pedro Ortiz or Bruce Chen put down "white" as their race.
I try not to . I don't care one bit about race unless of course the person is speaking of family history or the times he/she was living in a certain place. Other than that, its all the same to me.
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. I don't care one bit about race unless of course the person is speaking of family history or the times he/she was living in a certain place. Other than that, its all the same to me.
