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I acknowledge what the op was trying to do; educate people on Mexico's devisity. But this thread is so similar to dozens of other threads from other nationalities and cultures crying about how they are actually white and not brown..
Countless times I've heard people from India, Turkey and Somalia make detailed arguments on how they are not people of color but are Caucasians.
If they are or not, shouldn't matter in this day in age. When almost everyone in both americas speak European languages and has European ancestry from colonial times.
Yes Mexicans can be white but most of the poor ones being walked over in mexico city are brown, maybe thats why they come to the U.S.
They are Caucasian. This has nothing to do with being "people of color". They are not "people of light". Caucasian is a skull type. Caucasian does not mean white. White means European. You can be Caucasian without being white/European. Isn't this obvious?
I have been browsing a lot threads on here saying all Mexicans are people of color?
This is a generational thing. In the United States, Mexicans were traditionally considered white. Most people who grew up in the 40s/50s/60s actually saw them as white. It wasn't until the 70s and the 80s after the "hispanic" concept was politically fabricated that they started to be seen as non-white minorities.
Mexico is comprised of primarily two ethnic races: those descended from Spaniards (white) and those descended from native Americans and a lot of Mexicans are a mixture. Physically speaking, feature-wise many of them fall into the latter category, where even if they might not consider themselves "indigenous", they have a lot of indigenous blood. On the other hand, my dad doesn't look indigenous but even so has about 25% native american blood.
@TakeZoe: Turkey neighbors Bulgaria and is a Eurasian country....so yes: there are white Turks and they are still Caucasian regardless of skin color.
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Originally Posted by 80skeys
Mexico is comprised of primarily two ethnic races: those descended from Spaniards (white) and those descended from native Americans and a lot of Mexicans are a mixture. Physically speaking, feature-wise many of them fall into the latter category, where even if they might not consider themselves "indigenous", they have a lot of indigenous blood. On the other hand, my dad doesn't look indigenous but even so has about 25% native american blood.
You know there are such people who are mestizo but have Caucasian facial features, average height, and light/tanned skin but not dark brown, right?
Like me and most of my family from Jalisco and much of Northern Mexico....there are even guero looking Mexicans or castizos (what you dad would be considered) over there!
I’ve met a number of people of Mexican descent, but no one who could be mistaken as being of Northern European ancestry. Those people may be the ones among Mexico’s elite. They tend not to migrate to the US to work in agriculture, food processing, restaurants, or as construction workers, which are the jobs where most Americans outside of the border states encounter Mexican immigrants. When you ask an American what the typical Mexican looks like, someone like Guillermo del Toro doesn’t come to mind.
Anyone remember Ricardo Montalban? He was fairly swarthy, but his parents were immigrants from Spain.
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What are you talking about, Michael Moore totally looks like a Mexican. LOL
I often see Northern European looking Mexicans in El Paso driving around with Chihuahua licence plates, likely Mennonite descendants, but I know darn well they are a minority in Mexico.
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