| Mr Khan said: 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 |
Sure, but the answer would be to add a mestizo racial category. Assuming all Hispanics are mestizo, even if they tell you they're white (or black, or whatever), is wrong. Argentina is the whitest country in the hemisphere (and probably the world). If we transplanted their entire population of 40 million to the USA, we wouldn't cease to be majority white any sooner - quite the contrary.
