my family ethnicity lines are as follows,french,mexican and spanish but what am i?

Question

the question i am trying to ask i guess is what race or ethnicity would i truely fall under? i have bright blue eyes,a reddish brownish beard and light copper brown hair i guess i could say? i also have light skin, not pale but definitely light. i constantly get mistaken for being white? southern or irish or british english or greek or russian you name it,definitely anything i am not. what exactly am i definitely? that is if you know? i bet your going to say european? but thats not a race? im very confused! help me! i have a high mix of light and dark skinned people in my family as well ranging from light eyes and light hair to dark eyes and dark hair......

Answer 1

The U.S. Census Bureau considers "Hispanic Origin" separately from race. Remember, it's not like people back in Mexico are colorblind; there are white Mexicans, black Mexicans, Indian Mexicans, Chinese Mexicans, and a whole lot of Mestizo Mexicans, which are people of mixed Indian/white ancestry.

Your Mexican ancestry: do you know if there's much Indian ancestry in there, or is it mostly or entirely French and Spanish? If it's mostly or entirely French/Spanish, then I'd say you were a white Hispanic person.

But there are various dimensions of things. Race, ethnicity, and national origin are all related but don't always correlate the same way, and may be mixed. Take Illinois Senator Barack Obama, for example. The simplest ethnic term to describe him would be "black," but his ancestry is quite distinct from most of the black people in America. His father was from Kenya and his mother was a white American. Racially, on the Census form, he would probably check the boxes for both white and black (the Census began allowing multiple races in 2000). Culturally, he actually spent some time in Indonesia as a youth, but then moved back to Hawaii, where he had been born. As an adult, he joined an African American church and married an African American woman whose ancestors, like most black Americans, were brought to America from West Africa (Kenya is in East Africa) as slaves (but there was also likely some intermixing).

So it's not like there are 5 easy boxes that you can easily separate the entire human race into. It's more that there are various terms that apply to different people to different degrees. You're white, but you're also Mexican. It's OK to be both.

Answer 2

A good friend of mine when I met her I thought she was Polish, from Warsaw. I got to know her and found out she was born and raised five miles outside Mexico City.
All her brothers and sisters are medium to dark brown skined and black hair. But she's fair skinned real, real light brown hair. When she put her glasses on I wouldn't care if she's Mars. She was real hot.

I doesn't matter.

Answer 3

French and Spanish-white
Mexican-Hispanic

Answer 4

Blackfoot Indian? Doubt it.

Answer 5

you are a product of your people and your language. their strength and their weakness the leading language of your life habits may tell you something of which you have favored. you have a wealth of heritage to balance your identity with. have a nice day.

Answer 6

You are a human being with a diverse background. Lucky you!

Answer 7

Creole??

Answer 8

You'd classify as caucasion of latin descent.

Answer 9

You are barbarosa.