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Lol, that's right, there are no black latinos. I forgot about that.

Historically, there are hispanics of european, african, and native american (south/central america and Caribbean) descent. some have all, some have one or two, either way phenotype does not always reveal genotype.

In short,one may be a white hispanic, but you do not know what their genetic makeup is like.

Don't forget Asians. Go to Peru and you'll find yourself knee deep in Japanese-Peruvians. Heck, growing up, when I visited my grandparents in Puerto Rico, I used to go into town for Chinese food. There was a family running a Chinese restaurant with two kids who spoke only Spanish. Barely a lick of Chinese and absolutely no English. And they considered themselves as Puerto Rican as their neighbors. Which considering how diverse the island is, they are right. (You go to the mountains and you are going to find names like O'Reilly and Sullivan thanks to the Irish coming in droves almost two hundred years ago. They don't speak a lick of English either and consider themselves first and foremost Puerto Rican.)

AYRT

This I know, I'm Puerto Rican myself with an Irish last name (but that side of my family is black/habao).

There has been plenty of mixing on the islands (and mainlands) (my cuban friend is chinese somewhere down the line, tipo great grandfather). Heck, I've got some Arab blood in me too! But that's my point, there is so much mixing, it's ignorant to say that a person is just white. A person has no idea what's running through their DNA.

Bot to sound like a creep (bc I am on anon) but what part of PR are you from?

I was born in Ceba. At the now defunct Rosie Roads. Dad was Navy. Mom had family there all over the island though my grandparents are from Isabela. That's where I used to go for the Chinese food. It was just like across the square from the church, if I remember right. The restaurant was next to a five and dime. It has been a long time since I've been there since most of my family moved to Florida. Because we are stereotypically Puerto Rican. Born there, mom's family moved to New York and New Jersey. Then some moved back to the island but most moved to Florida.

Oh, and how about yourself?

AYRT

Nice! My mom always tells me about how good the chinese food in PR was...

Born in Ponce, most of my family (both sides) is from there, but I grew up in NY, as most of my family (both sides) moved up to NY. Pops is a Nuyorican, my mom was straight from the island. And like you, and most PRicans, my extended family is located all over the east coast, with an abnormally high amount in NY and FL.

See, I can understand NY but FL? It's so close to PR that the only reason why I see not just moving back to the island is that you can register to vote in FL. Outside of that...no. No. My family is always telling me to move down there to be with the rest of the family but I think Florida is the only state in the Union that I have no desire to move to.

Most of the Hispanic people I know are not white at all, but there are plenty who are in Los Angeles, which is where I live. Here, white-Hispanic doesn't come with white privilege because Hispanic = Latino, with little bearing on skin color, to determine racial interaction and standing.

While I know this doesn't bear out everywhere, in my experience the language you speak and culture you identify with plays a lot into what nationality or ethnicity you define yourself as. I'm a first-generation American child of parents who immigrated here in their adulthood, but I feel American, not Indian-American. I value my ethnic ancestry, but I don't identify with it at all. Hell, I identify more with the Hispanic and Latino cultures I was raised around than the Indian culture I come from but had little connection to growing up.

So while many Hispanics are white in appearance, that doesn't actually mean that by default they are white as a culture, or get white privilege. (And ironically enough, a lot of the white-Hispanic girls I know are always trying to get a tan and turn their skin darker).

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