Hey, I know a couple from Chile who are as white as white can be. They went to get their Social Security cards for their temporary employment as visiting scientists at the University of Chicago. At the SS office, they filled out the application and by “race” checked “white.” The SS person crossed it out and wrote Hispanic.
I have a similar example. A guy in our office with the last name of Liftshietz who is Jewish to the hilt, happens to have been born and raised in South America, (Spanish is his first language) but the HR people count him as Hispanic. He laughs about it.
It's nuts.
BTW, since they started asking the idiotic ethnic questions I have always checked Native American. Hell, I was born here, so I figure I'm a native.
Maybe someday, I can get a casino. ;~))
Hispanics are white.
Hispanic is not a race ,it’s a culture.
You can be white(European decent),black , Chinese , native south American Indian , or any mix above and still be considered Hispanic if you came from a Spanish speaking country.
I know this ;) cause they always marked me Hispanic too because of my maiden name (grandfather was born in Spain to an English mother and half German half Spanish father - so Spanish last name ) BTW I was born with red hair , I have very white skin and freckles ,speak with a southern accent (don’t speak Spanish ) and they still mark me as hispanic yet when I tried to get a minority scholarship they told me I wasn’t HISPANIC enough ... go figure =P