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Interestingly, in Spain and Latin America, the term "raza" has a pro-European pro-white connotation. Columbus Day for instance is called "Dia de la Raza" - "Day of the Race". (And is a real celebration -not a bureaucrats day off) Now Cristopher Colombus is supposedly the bogeyman of all those who question the white European order isn't he? And he was a pale, blue eyed Italian too boot, not a brown 'mestizo'.

Well Spaniards and many Latin Americans (those that don't identify as Indian or Black anyway) see Columbus as the great benefactor of their "race". Also it must be said that the word "Race" historically meant something very different from today - any group of people that can be connected by culture or language (i.e. "The Irish Race", or "The Race of Latins" as mentioned by Virgil's Aeneid). It was the rise of Darwinism that helped gave "Race" its modern meaning - a group of people with biological features that are exclusive to a paricular subspecies of humans ("Caucasian", "Mongoloid", "Negroid").

"Hispanic" is not a biological race, it can only be considered a race (loosely) in the first sense of the word, a group of people with cultural or linguistic ties.

Any Mestizo who uses "la raza" to denote some sort of anti-white sentiments or to express pride in biological "racial" traits is obviously ignorant of what he is really saying, and is probably buying into the liberal culture of victimhood: that "non-white races" attain virtue through their suffering.