Years ago, I worked with a retired USAF MSGT who had been a diplomatic courier. In a conversation with some co-workers, a couple of which were young Blacks, who said they were interested in going back to Africa and living among their ancestral countrymen. The retired MSGT, who was also Black, told them not to be too eager; he said that they, being Americans, would be seen to be “as white as Frank.” They were a bit shocked and dismissive, he then gave them several examples of his trips to sub-Saharan Africa, often in civilian clothes, where “my blackness was ignored” to them “I was a rich American.”
I was surprised at his comments as the young man and woman he was talking to.
Americans of Hispanic descent are treated negatively and viewed with jealousy in central America. Simply put, they are seldom or never treated as a fellow Hispanic. It is even worst for those of Incan descent.