Quote: (10-26-2015 01:07 PM)Phoenix Wrote:
What a load of crap.
White refers to the phenotype coming from Europe, and originally the Caucasus. It doesn't refer to hybrid phenotypes thereof with Amerindian mongoloids (originally from Siberia). Sure, 'hispanic' may not be the best term ('latino' is probably a bit better), but technically neither is 'Asian' (Saudis, Iranians, Indians and Chinese are all 'Asian').
You can't just self-identify as a member of a group. The group must agree. And for the same reason the Bruce Jenner is permanently and irrevocably a male, a hispanic/latino/Amerindian-white mestizo can only call himself 'white' if you can't pick him out of a crowd of other 'whites'.
You're making the erroneous assertion that "hispanic" is a synonym for mestizo, it isn't. It's a catch all term that groups all spanish speaking populations from mexican mestizos, white cubans, black colombians and japanese-peruvians(among others) as "hispanic".
It's akin to fabricating a "germanic" ethno grouping where american/canadian whites,blacks and (east) asians are grouped together on the count of being native english speakers from an anglophone country.