badgenome said:
Not really. You can check more than one race, so if you're mestizo, you'd check White and American Indian. A plurality of Mexican-Americans identify as white alone, but according to the census bureau that means fuck all. They'll be told what race they are by their betters. The fact that a blonde haired, blue eyed Aryan wet dream can check the extra little Hispanic box and automatically become non-white makes this inaccurate to the point of meaninglessness. Therefore, I suggest we throw Italians and Greeks and everyone else who's a little too dark complected out of the Brotherhood of Whiteness and become a minority-majority nation right now so people can shut the fuck up about it. |
I agree that the current system is overly broad in categorizing hispanics (defining them strictly through their region of origin in spite of actual racial background), but i'll disagree in that i still contend that Mestizo is a race all its own at this point (because yes, while people of mixed race exist, this is a whole race of mixed-race people that essentially sustains itself), though that would only apply to proper Mestizos and not (to use the old colonial parlance) Creoles or Central/South American Indians proper

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