White Americans shouldn't see hispanics / latinos as very different from them
One of my pet peeves is Americans seeing hispanics as separate and different (compared to other Europeans). Yes latino americans may seem pretty foreign compared to white americans (mainly mestizo), but the culture is largely derived from Spain, and Spaniards (as well as unmixed Spanish in Latin America like in Argentina and Mexico City) are often as european looking as anyone else in Europe. In fact, if you are British or Irish, some of your closest relatives in terms of race are Spaniards!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/celts-descended-from-spanish-fishermen-study-finds-416727.html
One thing that annoys me is that the typical representation of a Spaniard in this country is Antonio Banderas or Penelope Cruz, they don't look typical! Also I've seen several Spanish woman portrayals in American media as shown as dark haired and very tanned. Not representative!
And here's a video showing some Spaniards that prove my point, many of them would pass as a non-hispanic white person in this country (especially starting at 1:14 for the first one):
And even in the United States, and even among mestizos, I've seen so many latinos across the west that are light skinned that it baffles me when people think of latinos as brown skinned.
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[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Nobody should see anybody else as all that different from themselves. We are all genetically and therefore racially intermixed to one degree or another.
There is no such thing as "racial purity," and people who hang on to that false idea need to discard it and embrace reality.
There it is!
