White puerto ricans?

Question

My best friend is puerto rican and his family is vary european and they dont like dark skind people my family is the same way why is that.

Answer 1

Um well this is under COSTA RICA.

Totally different countries.

And yes alot of Latin Americans look "white."

They are called White latin Americans.

From Wikipedia:

White Latin Americans are the white population of Latin America. They are descendants of 16th to 19th century colonial-era settlers and of post-independence immigrants. The settlers were mostly Spanish and Portuguese, the post-independence immigrants were mostly Italian. The next largest immigrant sources were Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, France and the British Isles, followed by various other European and some Middle Eastern countries. The immigrants came principally in the late decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries.

More than 50% of the population is considered white in the following Latin American countries: Argentina,Brazil,Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Uruguay,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Latin...

Answer 2

His family may be related to the European whites that ruled Puerto Rico in the past and have a built in bias against anyone that isn't white or fair skinned. Too bad.