Maybe by white people that for political/cultural reasons don’t want to be. They want to be members of an oppressed “community” and don’t want to have homosexual sex or convert to Judaism.
I may be wrong, but while some Americans may secretly despise blacks, only nutters are very vocal about it. I think the low regard for indios in Latin America is pretty much in the open. But is more how one lives and behaves rather than the bloodline. If someone is 100% Indian, but is clean, wears nice clothes and lives a modern lifestyle, he won’t be called ‘Indio’. But the woman who wears kIndian style clothes, lying drunk up against a building while their 2-year-old peddles Chiclets probably will be called ‘india’.
There are few tribal tatoo type guys that claim to be from a tribe that fought fiercely but none of these guys claim to be from a tribe that meekly deferred to European authority. Roughly same number of dudes in Latin America. Everyone of these guys claims they are descended from Apache type Indians not Nez Perce type Indians. In any event not many of these guys as a percentage of the population. Not much of this supposedly pro-Indian mentality gets translated into meaningful action.
There is in general more politically correct culture in Anglo-America than Latin America. But bottom line we know how people really feel by their actions not by their talk. Are these guys that claim to be 1/16 Cherokee marrying full blooded Amer-Indian girls because they are so pro Indian or would they rather marry blonde blue eyed chicks? Would they rather date Mayan Guatemalan girls or Swedish blondes?