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What does "white" mean? Light skin tone, certain physical features? If so, many Latinos are white and that would explain the grouping.

Or does it only mean anglosaxon heritage? If so, why?




yah I'm fuzzy on what white is too precisely. I was going to say caucasian but I don't even know what caucasian means exactly. I guess going by today's landscape I think most people would assume European, but that's a pretty broad swath too with lots of variation in it.


Well, Italians, Spaniards, etc. are European. Latinos have a lot of heritage from those countries.


they certainly do. You know I wonder if the mixing of the category was a reflection of what the majority of latinos presented as in some region in the US at the point in time the category was developed. Most of the latinos in the US dating around the time of the genesis of the white category were European phenotype looking. Who knows.




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