My father is Puerto Rican and of a mixture of races (white, native and black) and my mother is Italian and Irish (white).
Thing is, I'm light skinned (olive complexion) and according to most people I look just like my mother (I have fair skin, straight-wavy brown hair and green hazel eyes). I can't be considered hispanic (which I know is not a race) because I don't speak Spanish nor was I born in a spanish-speaking country. Yet I don't consider myself to be (just) white because I acknowledge my genetic and family history and quite frankly I really don't identify with your average white American.
People often mistake me for being Eastern-European or being one of those full-blooded tanned Italians and don't consider me latin (according to most people i don't "look hispanic")
,but I still feel some identity with my latin roots (I did try to learn spanish in high school and connect with my culture and I'm more likely to befriend, date and be close to latinos than I am to whites). But people often link me to JUST my mother and even my mom's family gets mad if I say anything about being latin or having "latin blood"/being of a mixture of races.
I know most would just say "American", but that term has such a narrow definition because of stereotypes, so let me ask, would you consider me mixed/pardo, white, or latino (since you can be white and latino)?
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