Marini
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Actually, Rich to be fair, I have met people of hispanic origin that label themselves, as white , if given the choice.
Did it occur to you, that many of the fairer skin hispanics consider and call themselves white?
The following, is from the link below, "Racial Classifications in South America".
"""If we cannot let people classify themselves, then the alternative is to let others do it. The Los Medios y Mercados de Latinoamérica study is a pan-Latin American survey in which interviewers are sent to interview a representative sample of people in their homes. As part of the interviewing process, the interviewer is required to classify the respondents into one (and only one) of seven racial categories: white, black, indigenous, mulatto, mestizo, asian and "Don't know". Of course, this is not an exact science since there is no way to train people to classify 'correctly' (whatever that means) and/or 'reliably' (in the sense that different interviewers should come up with the same result). For example, the difference between 'Indigenous' and 'Indian' may be less of a genetic issue than one about dress code. That is to say, we freely admit that the results that we will present in the following are 'junk' science."
The following table shows the distributions of racial categories by geographical region in Latin America (the rows sum up to 100%)
White Black Indigenous Mulatto Mestizo Asian Don't Know
Argentina 89% 0% 1% 1% 6% 0% 4%
Brazil 51% 9% 1% 28% 10% 1% 1%
Chile 34% 0% 2% 5% 54% 1% 4%
Colombia 7% 4% 1% 22% 66% 0% 1%
Mexico 10% 0% 1% 3% 77% 0% 9%
Venezuela 30% 9% 1% 38% 19% 0% 3%
Balance of Cen. Amer. 13% 3% 1% 22% 58% 1% 4%
Balance of South Amer. 8% 0% 9% 3% 77% 1% 2%
TOTAL 34% 4% 2% 17% 40% 0% 3%
(source: Los Medios y Mercados de Latinoamérica 1998)
There are significant differences in the distributions of the racial categories by geographical region.
Racial classifications in South America
Many people seem to be clueless about the history of racism regarding skin color in South and Latin America.
Peace
< Message edited by Marini -- 3/29/2012 11:41:53 PM >
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