Can we have a serious discussion, /b/? Why are Hispanics considered

I mean /his/. Sorry guys! I posted this on /b/ too but I'm not seeing any responses.

Spic here, I think its because most hispanic countries are majoritarily composed of mestizos that people think we are a distinct race. Of course it varies depending on the country, in Chile (my country) mestizos represent more than a 90% of the population, in Bolivia you have a big percentage of natives, then you have Argentina where natives and mestizos are like a 3% or so the rest being white europeans, in the caribbean countries you have a lot of blacks, etc. "Hispanic" is not our race, is our culture.

>>1545421
Burocratic and gov-related reason my guess. The black codes and jim crow laws were made for black people, but where do you put those that are not black or white?.

>>1545421
Off course the hispanic people have a cultural heritage in common that related themselves, but is also a term created by the americans (from the USA) in order to difference themselves from their south neighbour, in special because the reason that you said: the heterogeneous fenotipic of the hispanic people that make impossible segregate only by external appeareance.

Similarly, the classification like Latin was created by the french in the early twenty century to claim a relation and expand their influences in Latin America.