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Re: Will America ever acknowledge Mestizos or continue to push the White/Black dichot
Again I think you're mixed up maybe about the thread.
Most of the Central Americans in the US are not Caucasians but are mixed race mestizos, mixed with both Amerindian and European and sometimes African. So they are not Caucasians as you claim.
No Mestizo is not a race, it's a mix of races. That stated, Mestizo is an accurate racial label over "Hispanic" which tells you nothing about a persons racial heritage.
Answering "I'm Hispanic" tells us nothing about your ancestors because:
A 100% African person, a 100% Chinese person can be "Hispanic". Hispanic is not a race. It is a culture just as Christianity is a religion. Hispanic does not really tell us anything about you other than you perhaps eat tacos, which obviously isn't very telling about you.
Caucasian is a race, and Latin Americans are overwhelmingly caucasian.
Mestizo is not a race, anymore than mulatto is a race.
Again I think you're mixed up maybe about the thread.
Most of the Central Americans in the US are not Caucasians but are mixed race mestizos, mixed with both Amerindian and European and sometimes African. So they are not Caucasians as you claim.
No Mestizo is not a race, it's a mix of races. That stated, Mestizo is an accurate racial label over "Hispanic" which tells you nothing about a persons racial heritage.
Answering "I'm Hispanic" tells us nothing about your ancestors because:
A 100% African person, a 100% Chinese person can be "Hispanic". Hispanic is not a race. It is a culture just as Christianity is a religion. Hispanic does not really tell us anything about you other than you perhaps eat tacos, which obviously isn't very telling about you.