Amen...God knows how many Castillian, etc friends I made in Colegio de Mayaguez, and they were all “blanquitos”
And to confuse the issue further, many if not most families from southern Spain, and most if not all of those who migrated to the Americas, are recently found to be actually Sephardic Jews in origin!
There’s a wave now in Puerto Rico of people reconnecting with their Jewish roots. I found that my four last names (one Andalusian, one Basque, and two Galician), are all actually Sephardic Jew surnames.
Check out Sephardim.com
Most of my ancestors were Basques from the Pyrenees-Basque surnames are common in the SW TExas ranch country where I’m from-Basques were keepers of sheep, goats, etc and the country in the SW is good for that-part of my family still does it. Lighter skin and eyes, red and dark blonde hair are not uncommon, either.
Puerto Ricans = mulattoes (really quadroons) who think they are white until they come to the mainland.
Dominicans = blacks who claim to be mulattoes until they move to the US or PR. ;)