[colorcountry]

I have an Hispanic surname, but I’m about as cracker as you can get.

I’m tempted, very tempted to claim to be as Hispanic as my husband.

BTW, my daughter does claim it, as is her right. As a 3.95 GPA student, she received the minority scholarship at her University last year after filling out the application. When she went onstage to receive her acknowledgment there were a couple of murmurs in the audience. She’s blonde and blue eyed. I guess she wasn’t exactly what they expected.

[Drew68]

BTW, my daughter does claim it, as is her right. As a 3.95 GPA student, she received the minority scholarship at her University last year after filling out the application. When she went onstage to receive her acknowledgment there were a couple of murmurs in the audience. She’s blonde and blue eyed. I guess she wasn’t exactly what they expected.

I was friends with a girl from Columbia. Blonde hair, blue eyes, clearly European stock. But she had a Hispanic surname and Spanish was her native language. Yep, she claimed "Hispanic" on all forms and applications. Hypothetically, had I married this girl, our children would've had blonde hair and blue eyes and my English surname yet they'd be Hispanic in the eyes of the law.

That's the beauty of the Hispanic definition. You can be as white as Cameron Diaz or as black as Sammy Sosa. When it comes to racial and ethnic preferences, it doesn't matter.

[RockinRight]

What’s your hubby’s background, if I may ask?

[dangerdoc]

rubia

[muawiyah]

The people in NW Spain are predominantly red-haired with rudy complexions. They are a remnant of the original population (plus a bunch of Cornishmen who shipped themselves in sometimes in the past). Basques, also part of the original population, have an awful lot of blonds.

The dark haired, dark skinned Hispanic types came from the Middle East and Africa within historic times.

[John Will]

I think they always expect a mestizo.

[TheMoonTron]

I lived in California for the first 16 years of my life. My neighbor was an awesome guy. Served in the US Military for almost 20 years. His name was Paul C Ventura. He became good friends with my dad and was a very trusting neighbor he did a lot for others.

He moved back home to Tennessee. He returned to California and talked with me and my dad about how incredibly racist the part of town he moved to. I dont quite remember where but when he applied at US Military mechanic job, the application asked if he was latino/hispanic or american or whatever, he decided to go ahead and put Latino since his Grandmother was straight up Mexican but his mother and father were alot more American.

He said he laughed when he was rejected from the position over the phone and email so he decided to go talk to the hiring manager and he apologized and explained he was expecting a smaller brown person with little to no English.

Needless to say, he still puts down Hispanic and found a good job in El Paso, TX working at a Military Base

Great guy