Nope. Not if they put themselves down as hispanic or latino. Which they are free to do. There is no check or validation on the whole process either. Which is another part of the problem.
You're from Brazil or Spain, but you're white as the day is long? No problem. You can mark down hispanic/latino and be entitled to all the benefits that a white Uruguayan or Venezuelan are entitled to once you get citizenship.
Personally, I think it's all ridiculous, and none of them should be entitled to be considered anything other than white. But I don't get to make that call.
In any case, yes. All of these people will be counted as latino rather than white in a census for instance. Whereas in Europe, they would laugh if anyone tried to pass themselves off as hispanic/latino but not white.
> Personally, I think it's all ridiculous, and none of them should be entitled to be considered anything other than white. But I don't get to make that call.
The wording makes it seem like it’s a privilege to be considered non-white, and by extension that it’s worse to be white.
Isn't that the case? There are plenty of initiatives (both public and private) which favor non-whites, while I don't think there's even one which favors black people. So, people who get to put non-white in their papers are privileged by the system.
