It’s all a muddled mess. I mean, Greeks and Italians can be just as dark complected as a “typical” Mexican, yet we don’t have a special category for them.
Then again, I saw at least one Mexican lady the last time I was there with freckles and red hair.
Hispanic is a linguistic thing more than anything else. Which makes me wonder whether Brazilians are considered Hispanic.
I have red hair, but no freckles-I’m one of several redheads in my family.
Most people consider Brazilians a Hispanic ethnic group-Phillipines, Portugal, Brazil-and don’t forget the South and Central American countries where the old native languages are still widely spoken.
I look at Hispanics as having a common ancestry from Spain-it is about the only common thing. And Spaniards from Spain were originally tribes of Gauls, Celts, etc who interbred with the invading Romans, hence getting latin blood, culture and language-so they are also a mixture of several ethnic groups, not a race-nearly all were Caucasian. Folks from the Pyrenees are ethnically Spanish and French both, depending on who claims the area at the time, etc.
With all the DNA and other evidence of tens of thousands of years of people sailing all over the globe to trade, breed and just wander around out of curiosity, it escapes me how people can still have such narrow, ignorant views of humanity.
Right after 9-11, my brother and I also commented that a lot of of the middle-eastern terrorists looked just like Hispanics, and we were concerned about that-with good reason, it seems, if it is true that they are coming in illegally from Mexico now...