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To: Clemenza

It’s not that easy.

Almost 2/3rds of the population of Earth are “Asian”. 48 countries are “Asian”, including Russia, Georgia, Iran and Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_population

Currently, the United States Census Bureau defines six race categories. According to census reports, the largest number of Hispanic or Latinos are of the White race.

Because Hispanic roots are considered aligned with a European ancestry (Spain/Portugal), Hispanic/Latino ancestry is defined solely as an ethnic designation (similar to being Norse or Germanic). Therefore, a person of Hispanic descent is typically defined using both race and ethnicity as an identifier — i.e. White-Hispanic, Black-Hispanic, Asian-Hispanic, Amerindian-Hispanic or “other race” Hispanic.

This disparity is true throughout central and South America as well. For example in Mexico, for many years the sole distinction between Mexicans and Indians was that “Mexicans wear shoes”. But in the 20th Century they adopted over 100 distinct racial designations, including three or four different blended races categories, such as “Chinese-Anglo-Negro-Indian”.

It is made even trickier by the fact that Hispanics will cross breed with just about any race, except Hispanics from another country, whose pairings are in a fraction of a percent. That is, Mexicans do not marry Hondurans or Cubans or Guatemalans or Venezuelans, etc.


92 posted on 06/24/2016 7:02:45 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
That's because mestizos in the US don't have a category, and many Mexican and Puerto Rican Americans of racially mixed stock identify as "white" in the secondary category even though they are neither genetically not culturally white. If you look at the census data from the border counties in Texas, the majorly self identify as "white", but if you've ever been there and seen or spent time with the locals, they are anything but.

Unless we shift immigration preferences back to Europe, we will "define the race down" as they do in Latin America, and become culturally and racially a third world country. Whether or not that is a good thing is up to individual opinion.

94 posted on 06/24/2016 11:19:08 AM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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