[alexander_busek]

The 1960 “Magnificent Seven” [...] had featured white actors in even some of the non-Caucasian roles, with Eli Wallach playing the bandit leader Calvera and Horst Buchholz as a young Mexican gunslinger named Chico.

The badit leader Calvera was presumably (99.9% certainly) supposed to be a Mexican. And Chico was likewise strongly implied to be Mexican.

How in heck are those "non-Caucasian" rôles!? Are Mexicans (Hispanics) now "non-Caucasian!?" And if not Caucasoid - then to which of the other major races (Negroid, Mongoloid, Australoid) do they allegedly belong?

Regards,

[Alas Babylon!]

Most Mexicans are actually Indians. The amount ranges from 100 percent to at least half. There are a few families that are almost 100 percent Spanish, that arrange marriages between themselves (for centuries), and they basically run the country.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Then there was Robert Morley as the Emperor of China, and James Mason as the Chinese ambassador in the 1965 version of Gengis Khan.