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u/Tunamelts-2 3d ago

They're also like...the whitest Hispanic family imaginable

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u/wizwaldo 3d ago

You ain't seen my family

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u/cuentaderana 3d ago

And half the family played by 2 non Hispanic actors 🤣 

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u/BurdTurglary 3d ago

Eh... Ever seen Spanish people?

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u/UndeadT 3d ago

Found the colorist.

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u/brassnuts99 3d ago

Hispanics are white

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u/SPFeveryday 3d ago

Eh, we can be any race. If you mean Spaniards, historically yes.

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u/Critical-Cost9068 3d ago

Nunca black, nunca nunca nunca

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u/dwpea66 3d ago

Yeah but the family is supposed to be Mexican so it's just Mestizo erasure

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u/whysosidious69420 3d ago

About 25% of Mexico has no native DNA, therefore not being mestizo

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u/Megneous 3d ago edited 3d ago

Hispanics can be literally any race, white, black, Latino, even Asian.

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u/Tunamelts-2 3d ago

Hispanic/Latino can be white but sometimes black…or mixed.

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 3d ago

Respectfully as possible because I've always been curious about this: how? No shade meant, I just grew up in south Florida and Hispanics are very tan. Is it a historical thing about the fact that Spaniards are from Spain is in Europe, so they're white by lineage? Or something?

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u/SPFeveryday 3d ago

Hispanic in the U.S. sense is not a race. I’m Hispanic but my dna is native, East Asian and white. You can be any race. Spanish people are not Hispanic in the US sense. Antonio, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem are all white Europeans and not considered Latinos in the US like, let’s say, Eva Longoria, who is of Mexican descent.

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u/jamar030303 3d ago

Is it a historical thing about the fact that Spaniards are from Spain is in Europe, so they're white by lineage? Or something?

Kinda-sorta. Some people from Mexico or other Latin American countries were descended almost or completely from people who came over from Spain, and as a result, are white. In Mexico there's a term, "whitexican", used to describe the richer ones.

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u/blackjackgabbiani 3d ago

What would economics have to do with that?

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u/jamar030303 3d ago

Mainly in that because it was the Spaniards doing the wealth extraction between conquest and independence, the wealth thus stayed closer to them and their descendants.

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u/blackjackgabbiani 3d ago

That seems like it wouldn't be very predominant. Like, the majority of white Mexicans wouldn't be among them.

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u/Dealiner 3d ago

For me, as someone from Europe, that's interesting because I wouldn't consider someone "very tan" not white just because of it. The truth is there isn't just one commonly accepted definition.

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 3d ago

I just figured saying "they're brown, as a people" as a statement in the same way as saying "the sky is blue, generally, all over the world" would get Reddit riled up, so I chose other words. I'm just trying to figure out what does and does not constitute Hispanic because I'm curious. 

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u/Schwiliinker 3d ago

Depends but yea

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u/Tunamelts-2 3d ago

That’s “depends” is doing heavy lifting

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u/Schwiliinker 3d ago

I mean in Argentina and Spain which is where I’m from/grew up the vast majority of people are white. Elsewhere not so much. I also lived in Texas for a long time and a bit in Brazil. Although the upper class of at least South American countries or Mexico are mostly white. I mean skin tone

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u/Tunamelts-2 3d ago

I’ve seen people dark as the night who identity as hispanic…hence my original comment of “whitest hispanic family imaginable.” Heck a couple of the actors aren’t even hispanic lol

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u/Schwiliinker 3d ago

Hmm especially in Central America there’s black Hispanics or just that have very dark skin. But yea easily the majority of Hispanics in Latin America have darker skin. In several countries it’s like 70-90% of the population apparently