Will Latinos be eventually considered as White? (generation, stats, economic)

[LauraC]

When have you never self-identified your race?

[Oldglory]

Originally Posted by tyCable

No. They look different shade tan to me. Light color tan. And not white. They stay indoors a lot though. It's a family thing for them. All the way to health issues they are together on this topic of being white. How do i know this? I am perceptive. I know they want to stay out of the sun and not get dark color skin. So they come out at nights only and work at nights only.

I've never heard of that one. I've seen plenty of Latinos outside all day and once again this isn't about skin color but racial genetics.

[pete98146]

What difference does it make? It's all labeling! Ignore the labeling and victim mentality and live your life to it's fullest.

[Oldglory]

To sum up this thread. No, never should most Latinos be considered to be plain ole white because most of them aren't, racially/genetically. As I said, skin color is irrelevant as there are darker skin whites and lighter skinnned blacks for example. Doesn't change the facts of their racial genetics and since when does skin color have anything to do with it?

[ReineDeCoeur]

Originally Posted by Oldglory

To sum up this thread. No, never should most Latinos be considered to be plain ole white because most of them aren't, racially/genetically. As I said, skin color is irrelevant as there are darker skin whites and lighter skinnned blacks for example. Doesn't change the facts of their racial genetics and since when does skin color have anything to do with it?

What if the person is majority white? Are you using the one drop rule on them? If they have a drop of something else, they can’t be white?

[Tritone]

Originally Posted by xboxmas

Italians, Jews, Greeks, and even Irish in some cases didn’t used to be considered white. Will Hispanics/Latinos eventually just become considered as whites, especially as many assimilate into American culture? Some Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Rican’s, etc. are whiter looking than Italians for example.

They were white originally before there was such a thing as "hispanic" ethnicity.

[Tritone]

Originally Posted by GuitarHero45

Could you elaborate on this because Asians excluding Middle Easterners have never been considered "White" in the U.S. at all?

Yes they have.

In the Jim Crow era, Asians in the South were considered white. Middle Easterners have always been white and are still white today.

[Tritone]

Originally Posted by AnesthesiaMD

When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, Hispanics were considered white. Then somewhere along the line, someone decided they should be victims, and they can’t be victims if they are white. So they stopped being white.

The whole concept was politically fabricated. They made up a fake victim narrative for them too.

[Tritone]

Originally Posted by kajo13

And there's a reason why we use the term Hispanic/Latino as an umbrella.

The whole concept was politically fabricated in the 70s by Mexican activists groups to achieve their political goals.

[Tritone]

Originally Posted by Kibby

In Texas … our Tejanos are offended by the terms - Latino, Latina & especially LatinX.

When I was a kid, they were still being called "Spanish American" by adults - and that was a white-ethnic term.