Do you concider me white or hispanic?

Question

I have like only a very little bit of mexican blood the rest is a very little bit of german , italian, roman, french, and american indian. More than half is spanish though. I get that little bit of mexican from my dad. On my mom's birth certificate it sats she's white, mine says hispanic. Nowadays spanish is concidered hispanic wen it's really european which is white. I wanna know what you think. Should i be concidered white or hispanic? Im just curious.

I dont mind being either i just wanna know what people think.

I have light brown hair, light skin, litish brown eyes.

Answer 1

You're mixed...done deal, you're not just white, you're not just hispanic..you are MIXED..like me...i'm half black, and half mexican...so i call myself blaxican, and anyone that tries n to justify to me that i'm only black is a fool. I don't disrespect the ethnicity that is a part of me, you can't deny that. So if your dad is mexican, and your mom is mixed with jeezus all that...then you're half mexican and half whatever your mom is...i'll just say mixed cause damn that's a lot.

Yea stupid birth certificates and what not will say "african american" or "hispanic" or "white" but that's because it's more convenient to have one word rather than the huge line 'half-black half-mexican'. But dont' dismiss your roots for simple appearance. I don't think my mother would appreciate me tellin everyone i'm straight up black cause i look it....hell people thought my mother was white because she 's so light-skinned, and that's annoying as hell to her.

That's my opinion....call it pride but hey, it's the truth no?

Answer 2

White Hispanic, but not White non-Hispanic... Or in some quarters (barrios) Wexican, depending on your skin tone and nose... Birth certificate means nothing...I'm Hispanic, but back in '72 both of my parents were listed as "white", since the Hispanic designation had not been delineated by the PC crowd. Hispanic is so diluted, because even Mexican Indians are called Hispanic, when they don't have a drop of Spanish blood. Mexican doesn't mean much either (racially speaking)... My mom is "Mexican" yet most of her family has light or medium colored eyes with brown or blonde hair etc. Don't be ashamed of being Mexican...You can be blonde and still be Mexican or Black and be Mexican...it really doesn't have anything to do with "race"... Have fun with your designation!

P.S.: Spell and speak properly and you will earn more respect!

Answer 3

When someone asks your background or ancestry ... or if you find yourself having a conversation about 'what you are', then I think you should do what most people do to answer this question:

You find out which ethnicity's make up most of you as that will be the most of what you pass on in your DNA. And it sounds like you are majorily Spanish with a blend of other European ancestors.
Spanish isn't white so much as it's Caucasian and there's a bit of a difference. I'd suggest you answer "Spanish/European".

I am a result of mostly Italian and Irish peoples. I do also have Native American, French Canadian, Scottish, German, Russian (and God only knows what else) but they are very minimal so when people ask what I am in the context of my family history, I say "Irish/Italian".

A lot of the time, though, I sum it up and just say "American". lol

Answer 4

If you're Hispanic then you realize that Hispanic is a wide indistinct cultural refernce and that Hispanics can also be any race as evidenced via good recognized Hispanics akin to Sammy Sosa, Cameron Díaz, Evo Morales and Alberto Fujimori.

Answer 5

My son tells everyone he's Irish, even though there's very little Irish in the family.

My dad considered himself Swedish, even though the only Swedish would be from Vikings who raped and pillaged ancient Scotland, and we don't even know for sure that ever happened!

My brother considers himself Jewish (even researched if he could live in Israel under the "law of return"), even if we are about about 3/8 Jewish, we were raised without any Jewish influence whatsoever.

Tell people whatever you want. You could even say, "I'm the result of the best of Mexican mixed with the best of European"
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Answer 6

Sounds to me like you are mixed....just like me :) I look white, I'm mostly white, but I'm also part Black and part Native American (both less than 10 %), BUT I've always identified with being Black. I don't know why, but my whole life has been like that. On forms like jobs and scholarships, I mark as white b/c I don't want to possibly take away a scholarship or job from someone who has more Black or Native American ancestors than I do. But for everyday life, I consider myself Black. Wasn't hard to do in high school, came from a town that was 99% white and when they found out that I was mixed, they started called me the N word. It wasn't until I left there that I started running into problems with it. I defend my reasoning for considering myself Black or even just mixed on a daily basis almost, but I'm not going to quit either because it's who I am.

Bottom line, claim what your heart tells you to claim, but NEVER deny any of your ancestry, whatever it may be. You wouldn't be who you are without your European background and you wouldn't be who you are without your Mexican background either.

Answer 7

However you identifiy is up to you. Despite what others may think or say, you have the final say in who you are. Nobody can tell you who to be or what to be. I like to call myself Brown and other Canadians will disagree with me, but that doesn't matter at all. If you had a great great something that was black, but you want to call yourself White, then you are White. Period. You have the final say.

Answer 8

You're white AND hispanic.

*HISPANIC IS NOT A RACE*

Do you look white? Fine, than you're white. Why people from your country cares so much about ancestry, sound like a bunch of racists. Is blue-eyed person not blue-eyed because one of his parents is not blue-eyed?

"Mexican blood" There is not such thing. Mexicans have white & Native America blood, (maybe only white or Native American blood). "Mexican blood" is bullshit.

Answer 9

You should be classified as Hispanic. For example, a multiracial person who has one black parent and another white parent is still considered black. Although I disagree with it, that is just the way society works. (more difficult to become part of the majority)

Answer 10

I wouldn't consider you one way or the other until you presented yourself that way.

If your birth certificate says Hispanic that's probably how you will fill out forms, but I agree with you about Spain.