Why are people from Spanish Speaking Countries all grouped under the same race??

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For Example,how people from The Dominican Republic,Argentina & Mexico are all grouped as the same race is beyond me.I Mean Argentina & Uraguay are like 95% Caucasian.Costa Rica & Chile have alot of White as well.My Spanish teacher was a Black man from Cuba & considered himself black.For Example Columbia & Venezuela are very Multi racial countries.Neighboring Guyana & Surimane have alot of Black & Asian People.Yes,they have alot of people of Indonesian & East Indain descend,even some chinese people. I mean look at El Salvador 98% is mixed with Spaniard & Native Blood.And why do people think that there can't be white Latins?? I've met Countless white Latins as well as black ones.Are you aware that the Us goverment created the term Hispanic?? Many people still do not know this.Just Look Latin people can be Any Race :Roberto Clemente,Alexis Biedel,Geraldo Rivera,Christian Aquillera,Sammy Sosa,Cameron Diaz,Don Omar, J-Lo, Luis Miguel

Answer 1

Why are all semi-white, white, and dittos grouped as caucasion? Answer: because someone wants to know your race when they hire you so they can meet a criteria.:P

Answer 2

Maybe because part of the issue is that Americans take "race" far too seriously when it comes to things like scholarships and job applications to give the upper hand to "minorities" to feel more "politically correct".

On the other hand, America is so filled with people of all sorts of races whose descendants have lost all contact with the cultures of their parents that it just seems more easy to rate people by their ethnic group without taking into account their citizenship status.

I'm considered to be white in American standards because my "mexican" half is in fact spanish blood so I don't look mexican per se, but legally I'm half Mexican and therefore indirectly a Hispana. I prefer the term Mexican-American myself since indeed calling people Hispanos by their physical appearance is just as dumb (for the sake of political correctness) as calling any black person you see on the street African American when it's possible they could be aborigineal Australian or Brazilian or something.

Except for more medical related studies as which diseases have more effect on different ethnic groups, it's more logical to just rate people by citizenship status anyways with all of the mixed races people all over the world have due to immigration and colonization.

Oh, could people even rate Gael García Bernal "white"? Indeed he has green eyes and for a mexican he has pretty fair skin and he's probably of spanish descent, but Spain was under the rule of Muslims for centuries and their genes blended with the spaniards, so it's sort of uh... Not fully correct? On the other hand, I met his mother in person once (very nice lady BTW) and she does look spanish.

Answer 3

Because its just easier to put hispanic on a survey or sumthin other than list all the races that you have said I no its wrong but thats just how it is

Answer 4

Why are all white people grouped under one race, Caucasion?  What about German and Irish and Swedish and all the other countries white people come from.

Answer 5

Im white mexican

I think there´s a misunderstanding with some terms like hispanic and latin. It was a wrong classification made in part by the USA wich tends to cassify people according to their race or color of skin.

We understand that latin people are those who speak spanish or portuguese as a mother tongue and who were raised in the Latin american countries wich includes Brazil, and also from Spain, Portugal and other european countries as well.

In the US is the same thing you are ¨americans¨ another incorrect classification (we are all americans in the american continent) and you have blacks, whites, asians, etc

Answer 6

An important part of the US population think that Hispanic is a race because the overwhelming majority of the Hispanics with wich they have contact are mestizos (part white, part Amerindian), and the media, that should makes things clear, reinforces the stereotypes.

Some important notes:

In Guyana they speak English and in Suriname they speak Dutch. There are no East Indians in Spanish speaking countries of America. There are some Asians, but they are mainly of Japanese ancestry.

The term Hispanic was not created by the US government, it is a word that refers to people that speak Spanish. But the US government uses it to all descendants of Spanish-speaking countries, even if the person itself can't speak Spanish. I think that's wrong.

Some of the "white latins" you mentioned are not fully descendants of Latin Americans. Alexis Bledel mother is white Anglo (though she moved to Mexico at the age of 2 and was raised there and uses Spanish as her first language), and so is Cameron Diaz mother. Of course, both are so white that probably their fathers were white too.

But if you want to mention white Latins that are famous in the US I think better examples would be Gisele Bundchen (the Brazilian model), Andy García, José Canseco, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Manu Ginobili (the Argentine basketball player), Gael García Bernal (the Mexican actor)... because they're fully descendants of Latin Americans, or Latin Americans themselfes.

Answer 7

stop asking dumb questions.