Are Mexicans considered "white" (live in, Hispanics, races, Indians)

[heeha]

I was always curious what racial category most Mexicans belong to? Are they considered white? Mixed?

[Mach50]

Originally Posted by heeha

I was always curious what racial category most Mexicans belong to? Are they considered white? Mixed?

They can belong to many because there are many races to Mexicans.

This topic has been done to death, do some searching here.

[Tom9]

Originally Posted by Mach50

They can belong to many because there are many races to Mexicans.

This topic has been done to death, do some searching here.

Ans, while we're at it the same holds true for Hispanics and/or Lations whichever of these, not quite correct, terms you chose.

[helloimage]

Mexican is a nationality not an ethnicity.

[xS☺B☺s]

Mexico has a diverse population with a significant number of all kinds of different European nationalities sprinkled in. There's a lot of Russians and eastern block Europeans in DF right now. I asked a girl from Moscow why she chooses to live in DF rather than MOS and she said "anything is better than Moscow.

Of course there is a large group from Spain. There is a Chinatown in DF and certainly other cities. Cuernavaca has a big German population. There is not a very large African population however because the African slave trade didn't happen in Mx.

Of course the largest population group in Mexico is the native and mixed (Mestico). The obvious reason is because millions of people lived in MesoAmerica in many big cities all over Mesoamerica before Cortez arrived. All over Mexico, millions of those same native MesoAmericans still speak their native languages like Nahuatl as if nothing ever changed.

It's a diverse and interesting place. A very light skin northern European type is a rather smaller portion in southern Mexico where the descendents of millions of Aztecs and Maya reside, but further north like in Monterrey, the whiter European population is more prominent.

DF:


Monterrey:

[sanluisito]

This is my estatimation about the racial composition in Mexico

Indigenous 20
Pred. Indigenous 45
Mestizos 15
Pred. Euro 16
Whites 3
Others 1

[Hialeah_Rules]

Originally Posted by heeha

I was always curious what racial category most Mexicans belong to? Are they considered white? Mixed?

Yes white.

[mexguy]

Ethnic groups:

mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/mx.html

[crestliner]

I think they are like the american Indians

[keyhero]

Jajaja, no way, we are a total mix, of course there are whites, but most of us are mixed, tale me for instance, my racial background is native american (of course), italian, spaniard (with arab) french, and most of my friends are like that, so you can say we are mixed in waaaaay to many different levels.