race vs ethnecity?

Question

I am latino. But i found out that one of my grandmother was red haired. So if she had red hair that means shes irish also. But she was puerto rican. If shes irish puertorican. that means shes Irish/native american. because she looked kind of asian like alittle, but with red hair and hazel eyes with very white skin. My dad was born blond and very white skin but he turned tanned and his blonde hair turned black when he got older. and all my grandparents were very light skinned. in fact most of my aunts and uncles look european. One of my grandfather who i know nothing about though. I had a picture of him. My mom told me that he used to travel the world andwhen she was little she was takin away from her dad( my grandfather) and she never saw him again. But i saw his picture and he looks very white also caucasian american like also. However i look almost nothing like my them why is this? I came out born very lightskinned and then i got tanner , but i always had straight soft

jet black hair. but i actually look more south american. I had two girls confuse me for south american and before i even had people tell me I looked mexican and I am not mexican. Iand i get mad because my mom is puerto rican and my dad is dominican. Why is it that my grandparents looked very white and European but then my parents came out looking more Amerindian?
When people ask me about my race people are always confused. Because they say i look like a mix of races. Like im south american maybe and something else.
Also if i am potential irish because of one of my grandmothers had red hair how can you classify your race? it doesnt mae sense to me

If im probably irish, nordic, Amerindian, possibly part black, how can racially i fit into a racial catagory?

And if I am a mix of racists does that mean i can claim im any ethnecity i choose? not just latino?

mix of races*

Answer 1

The reason it makes no sense, is because you are working on appearances... and if you stereotype by that, it gets to be a guessing game. IE, red hair is not guaranteed Irish. Dark skin does not guarantee Mexican (or Indian, or anything else). Latino is a very vague term. Not to mention that all of us are mixes of all our ancestors.
Now, to help you make sense... in an accurate way, you need to learn the tools of concrete research, and find the specific records of who your ancestors are. Example.. grandma from Puerto Rico, her (maiden) name.. her dates of birth and death, her parents names (and siblings). Your mother's birth certificate is the place that she will hopefully have the correct name of both her father and mother. You will try to document him, although I understand that might be hard.
Appearance is simply a matter of opinions.. which can be debated. Let's get you started on actual facts. One place to start is www.cyndislist.com with a beginner's guide. While you are there, you can cruise around and see all the different resources that you might use.

Answer 2

Hispanics or Latinos is a term used mostly to define all the Spanish speaking south of the U. S.

The original people were what are called Indians. The Spanish came and they were not all dark skinned, dark haried, dark eyed people. Some intermarried with the native culture. Some did not. A Castillian's pigmentation is no different than people in the U. S. of Anglo Saxon origin.

Now, there is an old saying, scratch a Spaniard and you will find a Moor. The people from Andalusia in southern Spain are distant cousins to the Moroccans. It is only about 5 miles across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco.

I lived in San Antonio, Texas about 44 years ago. People were identified as Anglo, Hispanic and Black. However, many of the people identified as Anglo were of German, Czech or other origins. Some would say their identification came from the language they spoke. However, Black people speak English,too.

Answer 3

"Race" refers, simply, to black, white, red, brown or yellow. Scientists claim there is only ONE human race.
Ethnicity is where and how you were raised.
Your conclusion about being part Indian is apparently based on wishes. If you really want to know, go to Family DNA and have a DNA test done. meand23 is another website for DNA testing.
For clarifications, "Latino" (and other such terms) REFER TO THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN and has nothing whatsoever to do with race, culture or anything else.
Mexico, Central and South America and the Carribean was settled by Europeans. Because blacks were more resistant to disease than any other "race", they became the prominent group to work as slaves. It has nothing to do with their color (unlike the sociology people and so-called "historians" would have you believe) but cold, hard, economics.
Indians made into slaves went for the price of 2 Indians to 1 black. (That was how Massachusetts and other New England (including what is now Canada) dealt with the Indian situation: very few (percentagewise) were killed in battle. Many more were killed by starvation, by being shipped off to be made into slaves, etc. The vast majority were killed by disease. Indians were the cleanest of races; because of that, the had no resistance to disease. )
Most people in Europe and America in the 1600's and 1700's had no knowledge whatsoever of Orientals.
Another falacy is that if people have red hair, they are Irish. Where did the Irish come from? You've seen the news stories about the Iraquis and Iranians and Turks: so how come Armenians are so fair-skinned?
Everything I was taught in school re religion, politics, history, etc., has been proven false. Don't place too much emphasis on hair color: Irish aren't the only ones with red hair. Many Mexicans I have known are pale faces, many with red hair, blonde hair, blue eyes...
As to what can you claim, as long as you associate yourself with relatives, you should claim whatever ethnicity they claim. Me, I can trace (by paper AND DNA) my ancestry to Africa (Morrocco and South Africa), China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Turkey, all of the British Islands, all of Western Europe, the People (American Indians), Innuits, Eskimos, Siberia, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Mesopotamia (Iran, Iraq, etc.). My hair is dark, but I have both red and blonde hairs mixed in my beard. (I think of myself as "Indian"; it started in junior high; most people thought I was one. My grandfather rode with Red Cloud.)
So...get a DNA test, both X & Y.

Answer 4

The red hair could also be from spain. The olinaginal "Irish" the Celts before the British, Romans and other nationalities came around, had Black hair. The term "Black Irish" refers to the oringinal Celts, and/or Druids. The world is such a melting pot that there are very few "true races" except for maybe China or Japan who historical kept to theirselves.

All my family has dark hair and green/blue eyes. I have blond hair and eyes that change from green to blue depending on my mood, The funny thing is if I had been alive in the 1930/1940's I could have joined Hitlers "Master Race" and I have no German in me as far back as I have traced my family tree, and for most branches that is 400 years.

When it comes to your genic make up it is just the luck of the draw, we are really just a bunch of mutts anyway.

Answer 5

Instead of all that, the commonsense strategy would be to construct your family's history from yourself on back, each generation at a time. Learn all you can from your living ancestors of full names, dates and places of births, marriages and deaths, as far back as anyone recalls. Begin getting the documents for each, and entering what you learn onto genealogy software for organization.

Answer 6

You would be everything that your family is. Whatever ethnic group is more common between your two parents, if there is one, is what you are. If there is not one, then you are whatever the rest of your family mostly is. I hope this helped.

Answer 7

got to love those wild eyed Irish boys, tripping the light fantastic and going forth and pollinating the world

Answer 8

you are a very confused, misinformed person.