More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White

New York Times ^ | May 21, 2014 | Nate Cohn

[dfwgator]

What about Puerto Rican Jews?

[Clemenza]

Actually, most of the people that I see in PR do not look Andalusian. The kinky hair, dark skin, music, and many socialcultural mores are from subsaharan Africa. Genetic testing doesn't lie either. ;)

Puerto Ricans = mulattoes (really quadroons) who think they are white until they come to the mainland.

Dominicans = blacks who claim to be mulattoes until they move to the US or PR. ;)

[Clemenza]

I live in Brazil. 1) We don’t speak Spanish down here, we speak Portuguese. 2) Many “whites” are actually racially mixed, as race in Brazil has more to do with literal color, rather than genetics. This is why, as is the case in my wife’s family, you can have siblings who are “Branco” or “Pardo.” 3)There are pure-blooded whites here, mostly descendants of late 19th/early 20th century immigrants from Italy, Germany, Portugal, Poland, etc., mostly in the south of the country.

[Clemenza]

Played by a Hungarian-Italian guy from Edison, NJ no less!

The majority of Jews in PR came from Cuba post-Fidel. There is a smaller part of the community that came to PR from Europe after the US occupation.

[UCANSEE2]

So what is a race? Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid?

I believe those are the labels that have been used for hundreds of years, and were the standard on things like Income Tax forms.

[adorno]

I'm so confused! What the heck am I?

Adorno:

Is it Italian, or German, or Spanish, Dutch, Austrian...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adorno_%28surname%29