[William Terrell]

All the coloration, body attributes, basic facial features and physical types are like South American peoples and none like European Spanish. This is just observable without a degree in anthropology. Brazillian are mistaken for Mexicans by ordinary people all the time. I never heard of a Spaniard being mistaken for Mexican.

Spain may have conquered the people that were living in the region that is Mexico now, but certainly didn't spread much blood around, and certainly didn't wholesale settle down there.

The only logical and reasonable conclusion, without a time machine, is that South American people migrated at some distant time to Mexico.

[cyborg]

I never heard of a Spaniard being mistaken for Mexican.

** That would be cause for a fist fight if that ever happened. One of my buddies was married to a Spanish woman. She almost slapped a young Salvadorean girl who asked for directions in spanish because she was lost :(

[LWalk18]

Brazillian are mistaken for Mexicans by ordinary people all the time.

. Who mistakes a typical Brazilian (with black, white, and some Indian) with a typical Mexican (Indian and white)? Do you get mulattos and mestizos confused? The only Brazilian and Mexicans that can be confusing are those of European descent. Even there, white Brazilians tend to be most diverse because of European immigration in the 19th century; there are German, Italian, and Spanish Brazilians along with Portuguese.

[El Gato]

Brazillian are mistaken for Mexicans by ordinary people all the time. I never heard of a Spaniard being mistaken for Mexican.

The manager at a local fast food restaurant is from Spain. His features are not that much different than many of the other employees, who are "Mexican". Dark hair, dark eyes, kinda skinny. Oh his skin is a couple of shades lighter than the average "Mexican"(whatever that might be) , but until I spoke with him, I'd assumed he too was "Mexican".

Brazilians are more likely to have African ancestry than any Mexican. Beside which they speak a form of Portuguese, not Spanish. That goes back to the very discovery of the New World, prior to significant mapping. The Pope settled competing claims between Spain and Portugal by setting a "line of demarcation", Unfortunately, while the Pope intended the split to be equitable, in reality the Portuguese got the short end of the stick, because South America proved to be farther east than at first thought.

[george wythe]

Brazillian are mistaken for Mexicans by ordinary people all the time.

False.

Only if “ordinary people” cannot tell the difference between a Namibian, a Norwegian, and Navajo.

99% of Brazilians are descendants of either Europeans or Africans.

90% of Mexicans partly or whole descendants of Amerindians


Google is your friend.

CIA World Factbook: Brazil

Ethnic groups

white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%,
mixed white and black 38%,
black 6%,
other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1%

CIA World Factbook: Mexico

Ethnic groups

mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%,
Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%,
white 9%,
other 1%