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  • ARANA [Anya Corazon]

    14 7.00%
  • DARWIN [Armando Munoz]

    2 1.00%
  • DR. CECILIA REYES

    6 3.00%
  • FIREBIRD [Bonita Juanrez]

    12 6.00%
  • LIVING LIGHTNING [Miguel Santos]

    4 2.00%
  • MISS AMERICA CHAVEZ

    39 19.50%
  • NOVA [Sam Alexander]

    9 4.50%
  • POWER MAN [Victor Alvarez]

    4 2.00%
  • REPTIL [Humberto Lopez]

    3 1.50%
  • RICTOR [Julio Esteban Richter]

    13 6.50%
  • SPIDERMAN [Miles Morales]

    22 11.00%
  • SPIDERMAN 2099 [Miguel O’Hara]

    29 14.50%
  • SUNSPOT [Roberto "Bobby" daCosta]

    25 12.50%
  • VICTOR MANCHA

    10 5.00%
  • WHITE TIGER [Ava Ayala]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Penacity View Post
    A couple of points... Native American and East Asian are not anywhere in modern society considered the same.

    Brown is not a race in this particular dimension we are living in..

    Not really sure we need you to assign racial catergories to characters based on your own whim.

    I think it might be more constructive to actually list the country of origin of these characters (which was the reason I wanted to comment initially) since Brazilan and Mexican are quite distinct cultures and do not really have a shared identity.
    I did consider country and race and background and how each character looks.
    I think it might be more constructive to actually list the country of origin of these characters (which was the reason I wanted to comment initially) since Brazilan and Mexican are quite distinct cultures and do not really have a shared identity.
    I know that,but sunspot is black Brazilian and powerman is a black dominican.
    As for Inferno ?when i first saw his pics they clearly look native american or asian to me and i said to myself,oh more native amercican or asian characters in marvel,then i read more about them and they were listed as latinos.
    So them being listed as hispanic/latino did not stop me from seeing what race they belong to.


    MAC - native american of east asian origin/racially mongoloid
    Edited-MAC looks really racially brown looking at more pics so i would say she a brown latino.

    Nova(sam)looks euro-asian asian or mestizo native american to me,but looking at his mother she clearly looks more native american or asian.

    I do not go by ethnic diversity since there are thousands of ethnic groups in the world.
    I see race first.


    As for the brown race?well sometimes mixed types like ava in real life etc.. called themselves brown,just like some in india,some arabs etc..
    I guess you never heard the term but it's use often by some latinos who do not consider themselves black or white,so it's a legitimate term.I hear it all the time on radio and tv too,so no need to dismiss it.
    You know like white,brown,black people etc..

    Brown (racial classification)
    Brown or Brown people is a racial and ethnic classification. Like black people and white people, it is a metaphor for race based on human skin color. In racialist anthropology, the color brown and the term brown people was used to describe a series of hypothesized racial groups that included various populations from North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and South America. In Brazil, brown people is a cognate term for pardo.
    Ethnic and racial identifier
    The appellation "brown people" has been applied in the 20th and 21st centuries to several groups. Edward Telles, a sociologist of race and ethnicity, and Jack Forbes both argue that this classification is biologically invalid. However, as Telles notes, it is still of sociological significance. Irrespective of the actual biological differences amongst humans, and of the actual complexities of human skin coloration, people nonetheless self-identify as "brown" and identify other groups of people as "brown", using characteristics that include skin color, hair strength, language, and culture, in order to classify them. Forbes remarks upon a process of "lumping", whereby characteristics other than skin color, such as hair color or curliness, act as "triggers" for color categories "even when it may not be appropriate."

    As for east asians and native americans?of course there is a cultural difference,so they are not the same culturally but racially they belong to same race called mongoloid,and that's a fact.
    East asians just like native americans by the way vary in appearance just like any other race.
    I was not going to post any details,but you ask for it.

    Here are some facts.

    Mongoloid
    Mongoloid /ˈmɒŋ.ɡə.lɔɪd/ is the general physical type of some or all of the populations of East Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Eastern Russia, the Arctic, the Americas, parts of the Pacific Islands, and some northeastern parts of South Asia. Individuals within these populations often share certain associated phenotypic traits, such as epicanthic folds (epicanthus), sinodonty and neoteny. In terms of population, it is the most widely distributed physical type, constituting over a third of the human species.

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    In the nineteenth century Georges Cuvier used the term Mongolian again as a racial classification, but additionally included American Indians under the term. Arthur de Gobineau defined the extent of the Mongolian race, "by the yellow the Altaic, Mongol, Finnish and Tartar branches". Later, Thomas Huxley used the term Mongoloid and included American Indians as well as Arctic Native Americans. Other terms were proposed, such as Mesochroi (middle color), but Mongoloid was widely adopted.In 1940, anthropologist Franz Boas included the American race as part of the Mongoloid race of which he mentioned the Aztecs of Mexico and the Maya of Yucatan. Boas also said that, out of the races of the Old World, the American native had features most similar to the east Asiatic.
    In 1981, Elizabeth Smithgall Watts who taught anthropology at Tulane University said that the question of American Indians being a separate race from "Asiatic Mongoloids" is a question of how much genetic difference a population needs from another population to be considered a "major race". She said that even the people who consider American Indians to be a separate race acknowledge that they are genetically closest to "Asians".
    In 1983, Douglas J. Futuyma, professor of evolutionary processes at the University of Michigan, said that the inclusion of Native Americans and Pacific Islanders under the Mongoloid race was not recognized by many anthropologists who consider them distinct races.
    In 1984, Roger J. Lederer, Professor of Biological Sciences at California State University at Chico, separately listed the Mongoloid race from Pacific islanders and American Indians when he enumerated the "geographical variants of the same species known as races...we recognize several races, Inuit, American Indians, Mongoloid... Polynesian".

    In 1995, Dr. Marta Mirazon Lahr of the Department of Biological Anthropology at Cambridge University used the term Mongoloid to refer to Asian populations, Indigenous Australians, Pacific Islanders, Negritos, and Amerindians, classifying Northeast Asians as typical Mongoloids and all other Mongoloid groups as atypical Mongoloids.
    Finns were previously considered by some scholars to be partly Mongoloid, dating to claims by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Finns (and other Finno-Ugrians in Europe) are now considered typically European. 10% of Finnish genes are shared with Siberian populations. Nevertheless more than 80% of Finnish genes are from a single ancient Northeastern European population.
    Subraces
    In 1900, Joseph Deniker said the "Mongol race admits two varieties or subraces: Tunguse or Northern Mongolian... and Southern Mongolian".Archaeologist Peter Bellwood claims that the vast majority of people in Southeast Asia, the region he calls the "clinal Mongoloid-Australoid zone", are Southern Mongoloids but have a high degree of Australoid admixture.
    Professor of anthropology, Akazawa Takeru (赤沢威?) at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, said that there are Neo-Mongoloids and Paleo-Mongoloids. Akazawa said Neo-Mongoloids have "extreme Mongoloid, cold-adapted features" and they include the Chinese, Buryats, Eskimo and Chukchi. In contrast, Akazawa said Paleo-Mongoloids are less Mongoloid and less cold-adapted. He said Burmese, Filipinos, Polynesians, Jōmon and the indigenous peoples of the Americas were Paleo-Mongoloid.

    Features
    Mongoloids are characterized by absent browridges.



    Arthur Posnansky, Director of the Tihuanacu Institute of Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, Bolivia, in a writing entitled, Mongoloid Signs in Some Ethnic Types of the Andean Plateau, said that this indigenous boy had Mongolian folds that almost completely covered his eyelashes and the lacrimal parts of his eyes.

    Mongoloid skin has thick skin cuticle and an abundance of carotene (yellow pigment). Mongoloid males have "little or no facial or body hair". Mongoloid hair is coarse, straight, blue-black and weighs the most out of the races. The size of the average Mongoloid hair is 0.0051 square millimetres (7.9×10−6 sq in) based on samples from Chinese, North and South American Indians, Eskimos and Thais. Mongoloid hair whether it be Sioux, Ifugao or Japanese has the thickest diameter out of all human hair. Mongoloids evolved hairlessness to keep clean while wearing heavy garments for months without bathing during the Ice Age.
    In 1996, Rebecca Haydenblit of the Hominid Evolutionary Biology Research Group at Cambridge University did a study on the dentition of four pre-Columbian Mesoamerican populations and compared their data to other Mongoloid populations. She said that Tlatilco, Cuicuilco, Monte Albán and Cholula populations followed an overall Sundadont dental pattern characteristic of Southeast Asia rather than a Sinodont dental pattern characteristic of Northeast Asia.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mace11 View Post
    Inferno - native american of east asian origin/racially mongoloid.
    Is this Inferno the Inhuman? I didn't Dante Pertuz was a native american of east asian origin. Where was this stated?
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    This guy below is native american,but looks asian and racially belongs to the same race as east asians.
    Some like to run away from this issue,but clearly it needs to be talked about.


    Don't Be Fooled: Latino = Indigenous

    Santy Quinde Baidal

    Late last night, my father and I talked about how the ethnic term Latino mislabels Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous people from Mexico, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, etc. For a long time, we believed Latino and Hispanic correctly defined the Spanish-speaking mixed-Indigenous and Indigenous people in Latin America.

    As we crossed the George Washington Bridge, I wondered, Why is this so? I mean it’s true. We do speak Spanish and we practice Spanish culture. But we also come from a land that is still governed by our Indigenous relatives. I thought hard about how to politely counter argue his belief. His opinion. His Latino identity.

    “So I guess this means Filipinos are Hispanics or Latinos, too, right?” I said. “Think about it, they have Spanish names. They speak Spanish. They probably dance to Spanish music, too.”

    He laughed at me. He said, “They are Asians, though. You can’t confuse their race with Spanish.”

    “Exactly, so why are we the only ones considered Latino or Hispanic? Some of us are Indigenous, right? Think about it, papa. We are Guayakos and Manabítas. We come from family clans that stretch back for thousands of years of Indigenous tradition.”

    “Well..” he stammers. “I would say, we’re Ecuatorianos.”

    Latino or Hispanic is a term coined by the United States to identify Spanish-speaking people coming from south of Mexico. The reality is Spanish-speaking people from Latin America come from a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. We are like a rainbow.

    However, since 2011, Latinos or Hispanics now start to identify as Native American, census shows. Even the New York Times features their article on the cultural change and perspective of Indigenous identity among mestizos, mulattos, and Indigenous people.

    Also, Latino comes from the root word Latin which corresponds to the nations that used to form the Roman Empire: Spain, Portugal, Romania, Italy, and France. According to El Boricua, “ The word Hispania thus refers to the people and culture of the Iberian peninsula, Spain in particular. The term Hispano (Hispanic) later was used in referring to Spain and its subsequent New World – New Spain, conquered territories which covers most of Latino America.” The white-mestizo society or descendants of Spanish relatives can claim these labels to themselves.

    But Latino is not a person who only looks Mexican and speaks Spanish. Many of us come from mixed-Indigenous heritage and some of us are Indigenous, too. For example, Ecuador is home to 30+ Indigenous nations and a home to 8 million descendants of the Quitu-Shyri and Spanish ancestry. It’s also home to 1 million Euro-Ecuadorians and 1.3 million Afro-Ecuadorians. However, the 8 millions Ecuadorian mestizos form part of the rainbow colors of the Indigenous race mixed with the Spanish and the African cultures. In Ecuador, we say “tenemos la pinta ecuatoriana” (we have the Ecuadorian look) because some of us are brown, have black hair, and some, more than others, inherit the Atahualpa face, our last Tawantinsuyu King in 1535. We also dance to merengue and reggaeton, but we blast to Indian music and do the round dance, stomp the floor, swing the skirts, and chirp like the Curiquingue and Quinde birds.

    Ecuadorians make up the majority of mixed-Indigenous and Indigenous population, among other groups like Afro-Ecuadorians and Euro-Ecuadorians, who re-invent a fusion of all cultures, languages, and religions, yet preserve their Indigenous ethnicity, traditions, and roots simultaneously.

    The Idle No More Movement is an excellent example of how Indigenous people in North America unite to stand up and fight for their culture, land, and identity against a people who think it’s okay to walk over Indigenous people with mascot names and Halloween Indian costumes. I also think the Idle No More Movement should include Indigenous people and mixed-Indigenous people from Spanish-speaking nations as an effort to collaborate, unite, and support one Indigenous people across both continents.

    Do we call an African-American a Britannic because he or she speaks English? Do we call an Arab an Amish because he or she looks white? Why don’t we call Euro-Americans “mixed” or “mestizos” because they also have Irish, Italian, German, African, and Indigenous blood, some more than others? However, there is no debate about our differences. We come from different nations, backgrounds, religions, cultures, and so forth. But the key point is to co-exist in peace and respect each other. The principle is to not step on people’s sacred space without asking their permission. The Indigenous space has been repeatedly trespassed and disrespected in the Americas.

    I can only speak of what I‘ve seen in Ecuador. In Ecuador, the label Mestizo provides an opportunity for Indigenous people to climb the social ladder. In order for them to not be hated, insulted, harmed, put down, ashamed, physically assaulted, and to some extent, massacred in ethnic and cultural genocides, the ethnic label “mestizo” provides a convenient strategy to avoid all of the aforementioned complications. However, Indigenous people should not feel obliged to make the switch from Indigenous to Mestizo because of the shame with their Indigenous identity. Their culture is as beautiful as that of the African-American, European-American,and Asian-American.

    In Santa Elena, Ecuador, we identify as Indigenous people. We go by “cholo comunero," and some, more than others, by “Wankavilka” to emphasize their ethnicity. The Ecuadorian government sends us a census that provides three options: white, black, and Mestizo. We are forced to put mestizo even though in our hearts we know we are Indigenous to our ancestral lands and cultures, but this mislabel affects new generations of youth who start to distance themselves from their Indigenous heritage and encourage outsiders to expropriate our lands because we do not “voluntarily” identify as Indigenous. (Original Source in Spanish). Therefore, in this case, the mestizo concept does not equally glorify two cultures, but only the dominant European one. It serves to disenfranchise Indigenous people in Latin America. In a parallel comparison, there are Latinos, (Indigenous Spanish-speaking people from tribal nations in Latin America who migrate to the United States), who do not want to identify as Latinos and Mestizos but are forced to because it’s the only option.

    Appropriating a local tribe that is not yours is also NOT the respectful manner to go about this either. However, US census should provide an ethnic label that speaks for Mexican, Central, and South American Indigenous people. This also gives an opportunity for mixed-Indigenous people to learn from their culture via Indigenous groups in United States settings. Because as mixed-Indigenous people from Spanish-speaking nations, we have a right to learn about our Indigenous past that includes everything before 1492. Our nations started way before the colonial contact.

    Imagine what would happen if mixed-Indigenous or Indigenous Ecuadorians, Mexicans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Peruvians, Bolivians, among other Spanish-speaking nations re-identify with their Indigenous roots, how would that cause a chain reaction in Latin America and how would that redefine our culture, our history, and our thought process?

    Santy Quinde Baidal, blogger of The Quinde Journey | Wankavilka Nation (www.squinde.wordpress.com), speaks about his experience of re-identifying with his Wankavilka Comunero Indigenous identity as an Ecuadorian-American citizen in the United States. He recently graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s degree in English and Creative Writing. Thanks to oral tradition and extensive independent research, Santy learns about his Indigenous culture, identity, and traditions that stretches back to 12,000 years, to the first people of Santa Elena, Ecuador.
    Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwor...ino-indigenous
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    Quote Originally Posted by N'Dare View Post
    Is this Inferno the Inhuman? I didn't Dante Pertuz was a native american of east asian origin. Where was this stated?
    He is mexican latino and the picture i saw of him looks native american or east asian.
    So i am going by phenotype.
    Racially he looks asian or native american.There is a picture of him not on fire,but i can't find it now but when he is not on fire he clearly looks mongoloid.
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    I am going to clear up some more stuff below.



    Latinos/Hispanics have Native American ancestry
    Historically written and with recent DNA done on Latino genes, it has been proven that the majority of "Hispanics" also known as Latin Americans have Native American roots/ancestry (Aztec/Nahuatl), Mixtec, Otomi, Totonac, Maya, Zapotec, Olmec, Pipil, Lenca, Miskito Chibcha, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, Mapuche, Tehuelche, Diaguita, Charrua, Chane, Toba, Purepecha etc.



    Watch this video here only.Do not watch anything else after inside because some of the videos i seen so far have some non-sense or incorrect comments.
    I want you guys to stay focus.



    Note-Something i have disagree with here.
    Most latinos are not racially mongoloid since latin america is varied.
    A large number of latinos are really mongoloid,but a large number are white too and some are black.
    Mexico could be considered mostly mongoloid,but Brazil and Argentina are not,so it depends on the country you are talking about.
    Some latinos of course do not have any native american in their background by the way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mace11 View Post
    He is mexican latino and the picture i saw of him looks native american or east asian.
    So i am going by phenotype.
    Racially he look asian or native american.There is a picture of him not on fire,but i can't find it now but when he is not on fire he clearly looks mongoloid.
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    By the way i have correct some of the stuff i posted above like this.

    In 1995, Dr. Marta Mirazon Lahr of the Department of Biological Anthropology at Cambridge University used the term Mongoloid to refer to Asian populations, Indigenous Australians, Pacific Islanders, Negritos, and Amerindians, classifying Northeast Asians as typical Mongoloids and all other Mongoloid groups as atypical Mongoloids.
    Negritos,Indigenous Australians and some Pacific Islanders are black,but asian.
    They are black asians,not Mongoloids.

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    I edited/add some info above in some of the other posts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mace11 View Post
    He is mexican latino and the picture i saw of him looks native american or east asian.
    So i am going by phenotype.
    Racially he looks asian or native american.There is a picture of him not on fire,but i can't find it now but when he is not on fire he clearly looks mongoloid.
    What an idiot.... This is the wrong forum buddy..

    I'll add that Dante doesn't look East Asian or Indigenous to me which gets back to the original point... Who cares.. Let's not just arbitrarily assign racial categories to people based on personal bias. It would be mor appropriate to state ethnicity/country of origin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Penacity View Post
    What an idiot.... This is the wrong forum buddy..

    I'll add that Dante doesn't look East Asian or Indigenous to me which gets back to the original point... Who cares.. Let's not just arbitrarily assign racial categories to people based on personal bias.
    It would be mor appropriate to state ethnicity/country of origin.
    It would be mor appropriate to state ethnicity/country of origin.
    Why?for more brainwashing.
    Why run away from race?no need.



    Why the name calling?

    Try to have civilized conversation.

    I have to admit i have not seen enough pics of inferno,but originally when i first saw him he look native american/asian,but keep mind in the art tends to change like sunspot's.

    He is either mestizo native american looking or brown racially but i need to look at more pics first,but i could have confused him with another latino marvel character who is mexican.
    I need to find that original pic again.
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    Let's all keep in mind by the way that the comic world is not the real world and it has way more different history then the real world,so what happens in the real world does not happen most of the time in comic world,dc or marvel.


    Okay i seen few more pics of inferno,and i think i got him confused with someone else.
    He does not look white,so the only other option i see him so far is,is a mestizo latino,and that means mixed raced native american.

    In fact i have seen mixed race native americans that look like him.
    I need to see more art work on him to make a final judgment however,BUT pointing out only where someone is born or their nationality only does not cut it for me.

    As for Native americans and east asians?and what race they are or belong to?both groups are Mongoloid,and that's a fact.

    I knew some folks would get a heart attack mentioning this,but someone had to do it.
    This has been ignored to long on forums like this.It's like you have tippy toe just to mention these type of facts here.
    That's why i don't like coming to these type of forums because there is always someone to want to challenge the facts.



    There is not one way to look asian,native american,white etc...


    You either like the info or not,so that's not my problem.
    These are facts i posted and that's the way it is.
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    Let's try to remember that Latino is not a race, you can be white latino, black latino, asian latino, etc, it's very much an ethnicity/culture. Although the classification could change, but it seems most Latinos identify as "other" as they more likely identify as mulatto/biracial, mestizo, (which are mixed racial backgrounds in of itself) and/or Amerindian etc.

    Which kind of makes this board confusing, are you celebrating all characters with Latino culture, or minorities with Latino culture...

    Also even though Latino and Hispanic are used interchangeably, be aware that people sometimes use Hispanic when referring to white latinos (who are not minorities) i.e people from Spain etc.

    And can we not assign race/ethnicity/culture to characters based off their looks and our own wants, they are confirmed as such, so even if they look like something else, they are what they are. To deny fact is to basically step into the world of delusion, you are also being ignorant, but speculation is of course free reign.
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    I realize your talking about the Comics, but is there any planned Latinos in the MCU proper, like planned for the Civil War movie or Avengers III?
    interesting we have lots of Minorities in these movies but not one notable Latino superhero so far into the Movieverse (Phase 3 or 4)

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    I posted this awhile ago in another thread.

    This deals with the u.s.a. in the real world.

    As of 2010, 50.5 million or 16.3% of Americans identified as Hispanic or Latino. Of those, 26.7 million, or 53%, also identified as White.
    White Hispanic and Latino Americans

    David Farragut[1] • Romualdo Pacheco[2] • Rita Hayworth[3] • Bob Martinez[4] • Martin Sheen[5] • Raquel Welch[6] • Kenny Ortega • Andy García[7] • Michael Lopez-Alegria[8] • Salma Hayek[9] • Christy Turlington[10] • Ricky Martin[11] • Cameron Diaz[12] • Joanna Garcia • Christina Aguilera[13] • Pitbull[14] • Alexis Bledel[7] • Paz de la Huerta
    Total population
    White Hispanic or Latino Americans
    35,578,000
    8.7% of the United States population (2010)
    53.0% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans (2010)

    History
    A small minority of White Hispanics in the United States today is descended from original Spanish colonists who settled the so-called "internal provinces" and Louisiana of New Spain. As the US expanded westward, it annexed lands with a long-established population of Spanish-speaking settlers, who were overwhelmingly or exclusively of white Spanish ancestry (cf. White Mexican). This group became known as Hispanos. Prior to incorporation into the United States (and briefly, into Independent Texas), Hispanos had enjoyed a privileged status in the society of New Spain and later in post-colonial Mexico.
    The vast majority of White Hispanics in the US today have no family ties to this group, as they are descended from immigrants, or are themselves immigrants into the country from Spain and Hispanic America.


    Representation in the media
    In popular use, Hispanic and Latino are often mistakenly given racial values, usually non-white and mixed race, such as half-caste or mulatto, in spite of the racial diversity of Hispanic and Latino Americans. Hispanics commonly draw ancestry from European, Native American, and or African populations in different proportions; some Hispanics are largely of European ancestry, and some are predominantly of Native Central or South American Indian origin, or African origins, but a large number of Hispanics are descended from an admixture of two, three or more origins. Paradoxically, it is common for them to be stereotyped as being exclusively non-white due merely to their Spanish-speaking country of origin, regardless of whether their ancestry is European or not.Judith Ortiz Cofer notes that appellation varies according to geographical location, observing that in Puerto Rico she is considered white, but in the United States she is considered a "brown person."

    On the other hand, since the early days of the movie industry in the U.S., when White Hispanic actors are given roles, they are frequently cast in non-Hispanic white roles. Hispanic and Latino Americans began to appear in the US movie industry in the 1910s, and the leading players among them "were generally light skinned and Caucasian".

    Myrtle Gonzalez was one such American actress in the silent film era; she starred in at least 78 motion pictures from 1913 to 1917. Anita Page was an American actress of Salvadoran descent who reached stardom in 1928, during the last years of the silent film. Page was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin" and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood".

    Even today, because Americans associate Hispanic origin with brown skin, Hollywood typically casts Hispanics with conventionally Caucasian features as non-Hispanic white — as in the case of Cameron Díaz, Emilio Estevez, and Charlie Sheen. Most Americans may not be aware that the actress who played "all-American" Gilmore Girl Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore — Alexis Bledel — is Hispanic, with a mother from Mexico and father from Argentina. The White Hispanics who are perceived as Hispanic by Americans usually possess a typical Southern European pigmentation, with olive skin, dark hair, and dark eyes, as the majority of white Hispanics and Latinos are.

    The U.S. Hispanic media and the Latin American media are commonly represented by White Hispanic and Latino Americans and White Latin Americans (very often blond and blue-eyed or green-eyed, who resemble Northern Europeans more than the typical white Hispanic and Latino Americans and white Latin Americans of Southern European pigmentation), particularly in telenovelas (soap operas). There tends to be an under-representation of non-white Hispanic and Latino Americans and non-white Latin Americans, amid claims that telenovelas, in particular, do not fully reflect the racial diversity of Hispanic and Latino Americans. For example, in the 2005 U.S. Hispanic telenovela Olvidarte Jamas, white, blond, and blue-eyed Venezuelan American actress Sonya Smith portrayed Luisa Dominguez who is a poor mestiza woman; the actress had to wear a black wig to hide her obvious Caucasian appearance. Sonya Smith, however, was the first Hispanic actor to portray a Hispanic without stereotypical perception (portrayed as blond and blue-eyed Hispanic, not a Hispanic mestiza nor mulatta nor white Hispanic of Southern European/Mediterranean appearance) in a Hollywood film Hunted by Night, an English-language movie with an all-Hispanic cast.

    Marriage trends
    A study of married, Hispanic, male householders revealed that U.S.-born Hispanic Whites often marry a non-Hispanic partner, although 66% still marry a Hispanic White partner. In comparison, 88% of foreign-born Hispanic White males married Hispanic White wives. Regarding U.S.-born people only, White women of non-Hispanic origin are many times more likely to marry Hispanic men of Some other race than are Hispanic White women, as 19% of native-born Hispanic Some other race householders are married to non-Hispanic White wives, compared to 2% who are married to Hispanic White wives. Hispanics who identify as "White" are roughly 1.5 times as likely to marry non-Hispanic Whites as Hispanics who do not. (Trends for Hispanic wives marrying non-Hispanic White husbands are not shown on this table.)
    See, you can't run from race.

    EDITED
    Oh and some white latinos/hispanics americans are not really white,but a large number are.

    I am just editing,and did not return to read anything else.I said what i had to say.
    Last edited by mace11; 07-31-2015 at 02:46 AM.

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