ok, Im a white hispanic female with fair skin and blue eyes with brown hair when I am asked my ethnisity what am I classified as caucasian or latino ??
2006-10-07 15:01:12 · 10 answers · asked by vintage flowers 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Caucasian is your race. Hispanic would be the more appropriate and accurate choice for ethnicity. Latino works but only if you are actually of Latin American origin. (People from Spain can't, by definition, be Latino but they are, of course, Latin. There's a difference.) Also, skin color has nothing whatsoever to do with race.
2006-10-07 18:32:11 · answer #1 · answered by randyboy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I put family information into a database for a Parents & Toddlers class. If two ethnicities are selected, I enter "MIXED" (which, like my child, I like). You may not have that option; if not, I think that due to institutionalized racism, you'd be perceived (by many agencies) as Hispanic. I don't support this kind of catagorizing, in spite of the fact it's intended to provide benefit to various groups of people.
2006-10-07 15:34:57 · answer #2 · answered by Zeera 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can choose. However, one category I have seen on U.S. Census forms is "white non-hispanic," implying that a white hispanic would be classified as hispanic. Census workers, however, are instructed to accept the individual's description of his/her own ethnicity. When I worked for the Census, two half-black-half-white girls were described to me by their family as "Scottish," so I put that down.
2006-10-07 17:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
hispanic can mean from spain in europe, and they have white skin and can have blue eyes, in american latino means mexican and they arent white with blue eyes, your caucasian
2006-10-07 17:14:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hispanic,if you have a latin or hispanic last name your latin or hispanic.And they don't consider you white if you are of hispanic origin.Peolpe think I'm white but my last name is Hernandez,a very common mexican last name.I have brown hair and light skin,but people can tell that I have mexican in me.And I'm only 1/4 white
2006-10-07 15:09:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Latino, I guess. My boyfriend is Salvadorian and he has blue eyes and jet black hair
2006-10-07 15:12:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caucasian.... I'm 100% sure
I have a friend who is half italian half mexican and when we were in school she used to ask everybody this question.
The conclusion was : Caucasian.
P.S: if you were chinese and you had the same looks, would you consider your ethnicity 'asian'?
2006-10-07 15:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by belladonna306 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think latino Im not quite sure why.
2006-10-07 15:09:41 · answer #8 · answered by Love Child 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm....I guess it's just a matter of what you wish to identify yourself as. A friend of mine was white and Mexican and she just classified herself as Mexican.
2006-10-07 15:09:10 · answer #9 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your not white stop REACHING!
2006-10-07 16:39:54 · answer #10 · answered by justthetwoofus 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋