One thing I found it interesting while living in Mexico was that every Indian I ran into in Mexico has a “grandmother from Spain”.
I don’t know if it means that they loathe their own culture, or just wish to fit in with the upper-class.
The term Mestizo isn’t used to insult, the word “Latino” is. I have no idea why the lower class Mezo-Americans use it here, but what am I to expect from Chicanos who have no idea of their heritage?
In any case, the gov’t of Mexico has for the longest time wanted to push this absurd idea that “Mexicanos son iguales”, of the same race/blood. Put a Oaxacan next to a Sonoran and you’ll see two different nationalities. It’s nothing but lies & propaganda. To the point that my blonde cousins think that their ancestors are “Mayan”.
It’s worse than embarrassing. And these are the same cousins who got really upset about the “inmigrantes del sur que son cortos y prietos entrando a nuestra ciudad”.
Do you see the idiocy of it?
As for Asians scoring higher, yes Northern Asians score easily higher (Koreans, Japanese, Chinese). Southern Asians (Laotians, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Filipinos, Thai, and others) don’t.
That grandmother-from-Spain thing is like something sticky that can’t be gotten rid of-part of old caste snobbery, as you pointed out-as if everyone of Brit ancestry were claiming an antecedent who came over on the Mayflower...
Whenever my blond, blue-eyed 1st husband was doing an engineering job in Mexico, people always asked if his family came recently from Spain. He also had Basque ancestry and spoke Spanish, but he didn’t have some antecedents from Leon like I do, or as many Native ancestors-he said that “Spain” didn’t mean “light”, but most people didn’t get the joke.
The lack of knowledge concerning their REAL heritage and ancestry seems almost like a form of schizophrenia with most Mexicans-they want to be Native Americans today and have a grandmother from Spain tomorrow-but being the product of both after a few 100 years is unthinkable- something that only nacos would be-most of us in the US find the truth so much more interesting, but once you get south of the frontera, the ignorance takes over...
And have ever noticed how many of the actors in the Spanish language TV series are light and blue-eyed, and/or have German or other Anglo surnames? A few years ago I got curious enough about that to do a bit of research-I was amazed to find that a lot of the actors in the series produced by Telemundo-mostly in Miami-are actually US born Hispanics, from everywhere from Florida to Texas and DC-some aren’t just 1st generation Americans.
A lot of the ones from S America are more German than Spanish, light and blonde and have German surnames-so do some of the ones from Mexico, which probably means that more Nazis came over to disappear than anyone knows about. One of the popular actresses was born in Krakow and is Polish. Most of the guys playing the capos in narco mafia telenovelas look more like Vincente Fox than El Chapo-so much for Native pride...