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Did a quick look through the thread and did not see what triggered my thought here: Mexicans are of a mixed heritage of several Native American groups with Hispanic conquerors.
It makes as much sense to call them "Spanish" as it does to call mixed blood American Indians "English." "Other examples abound."
My Mexican history knowledge is poor and non-specific. Were there native populations that merged peacefully with the Spaniard conquerors? Or did you mean something else?
My late father in law was of Mexican heritage . His family used to jokingly refer to the Spanish as the " white European invaders " .
He was right.
Spain is a part of Europe. The people of Spain are Caucasian. Spanish conquistador Cortez invaded and claimed Mexico in 1519. So, the Spanish were white European invaders.
AquaDulce, in your OP you stated your co-worker is Germanic, referring to a branch of her family that is Mexican as "Spanish". She stated they liked to be called that.
My guess is, she likes to call them that. In my observation, bigoted white people sometimes refer to Mexicans as Spanish because they view the term "Mexican" as a racial slur, or a negative title.
I only know this because in college I roomed with a Mexican girl for 4 years, and witnessed her being called Spanish by bigots who thought they were being . . . inclusive/flattering/not willing to call her a slur. Kind of funny really.
That's what I was thinking!
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Originally Posted by jm1982
Definitely not like that in L.A
The Mexican population is huge here of course. Many Mexican Americans have been here for generations . Although there was a big increase in population in more relative recent history .
I noticed in Florida though a lot of the more old school Mexican restaurants will say they serve Mexican and Spanish food .. kind of weird since the foods aren’t similar .
Some Mexican restaurants are run by non-Mexican Hispanics
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