And you, sir-might consider not being rude and not making assumptions about someone you know nothing about.
My family came to the new world from Spain-the Pyrenees, mostly-in the late 16th century. Granted, they only spent about 75-100 years in Mexico before going to what is now W/SW Texas-and some went on to NM-but they were already mixed with Native Americans by then, and did more of that with the Native Americans in Texas and NM. I’m a red haired Tejana/Latina with light olive skin and green eyes, and I’ve spoken Spanish as a second language since I was a small child.
I’m not insulted by the term Mestizo, since obviously I am one-but I’m aware that people in Mexico still are class oriented-old school to be sure. I spent a lot of time in Mexico-my 1st husband and I drove our Suburban to the Yucatan a couple of times, but didn’t usually go that far. I haven’t been in nearly 20 years-it is a dangerous place now. I have relatives who’ve worked for American companies with facilities in Mexico-my 1st husband-an engineer- sometimes did, too.
One of my cousins married an archaeologist who is a paleo Indian expert-he did a lot of digs in Mexico and used invite us to the sites when he did-I’m particularly fond of Casas Grandes.
Native Americans have been a mix of Asian/Eurasian/Caucasian for 10,000 years at least, according to genetic and archeological evidence-they are in no way a “race”, but a mix. According to the latest studies most of the Hispanic/Latino people in the Americas today have more Caucasian DNA than anything else-those Spaniards were a busy bunch, and stayed that way. My family members range from my medium color to the black hair, dark eyes and darker skin so many people think of as “Latin”. but I have blonde cousins, too-color is all in the mix of genes.
I don’t particularly like Jalisco-I’m more fond of the desert, probably because of where I’m from. I’ve never been closer to S. America than Guatamala. I have been to Japan, when my husband was in the military. The culture was completely different than what we were used to.
Asians score higher than Caucasians-especially in the US-especially in Math-check it out-it is probably because their parents teach them at home, too-rather than leave it all to our less-than-adequate public schools. My parents worked hard to send us to private school-my husband and I did the same for our child.
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.