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From: Jorge Nunez <>
Subject: Re: [AdAstra] are Hispanics counted as "White"?
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 05:03:29 GMT


In article <mM7i4.2815$>,
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> Intellectual argument of the Issues at hand:
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> From: spike <>
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> Further to the question of whether the U.S.
> Government counts Hispanics as White or not:
> time constraints have thus fsr prevented me from
> tracking this all the way back to original
> sources, but this site at least provides some
> links to start with for anyone who chooses to do
> so.
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> http://sites.netscape.net/campeador/euroamerican/papers/classification.htm
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Organizations like the Census Bureau do not assign a race to the ethnic
group "Hispanics/Latino". As you are well aware, Hispanics come in all
colors, just like "Americans" for that matter.

Most US residents have been exposed to one particular "race" of
Hispanics, and there's where the stereotype begins. They have seen either
Indian or mestizo Mexicans (not all Mexicans, of course) because that's
the class that tends to come to the US as low-wage workers. I personally
would categorize that class as "American Indian", if I may push the
definition a bit, or as "other".

The issue for Census purposes is what those people consider themselves to
be, since they are the ones who respond to such a question. On the other
hand, what race a, say W.A.S.P, would perceive them to be is entirely
another matter.

Technically speaking, a Spaniard (from Spain) is not a Hispanic so he/she
must probably will classify himself/herself as white. Hispanics are the
people of Latin America and the Caribbean who claim to originally have
had ancestry from the people of Spain. As a result, not even Brazilians
are Hispanics!

Do you think the average "Joe six-pack" knows or even cares to understand
all this? :)

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