“I wonder if they are just limiting this to mexico and central america or something like that.”
I can tell you this from my work experience. An African black with a PhD or a British black with an engineering degree does not count as black. At least judging from the body language of our EEOC evaluator. Likewise, this black woman who came to evaluate my company was not impressed that we had a Russian and numerous Asians. She was looking for blacks she identified with. (I don’t know how the evaluation worked out as far as our government contractual requirements. I was asked to show her around my department and introduce her to our minority workers.)
I remember I was taught that most filipinos were lantino because they were mixed with spain blood and their language is derived from spanish.