The question of race is nothing more than a political tool to keep us down.
The Americas were all inhabted by the same peoples of the world. The old world meets the new world.
When my ancestors left the old world, half of them came to the U.S. and half went to Argentina. If I was born in Argentina would I then be Hispanic?
See how stupid this argument is.
A UNESCO statement called The Race Question issued on 18 July 1950 following World War II included both a scientific debunking of race theories and a moral condemnation of racism. It suggested in particular to "drop the term 'race' altogether and speak of "ethnic groups."
Rome tended to invest much more importance in familial or tribal affiliation than with one's physical appearance.
The 1970 Census was the first time that a "Hispanic" identifier was used and data collected with the question. The definition of "Hispanic" has been modified in each successive census. The 2000 Census asked if the person was "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino".[11]
Mexico a race?
The territory became part of the Spanish Empire under the name of New Spain. Called The United Mexican States.
In Mexico the people are:
Mestizos
Those of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. They form the largest group, comprising up to 60–80% of the total population.
In Mexico around 9-16% of the population is of white European descent[176][178][179]. Whites are mostly descendants of the first Spanish settlers; although there are Mexicans of French, Italian, Portuguese, Basque, German, Irish, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and British descents from contemporary migration
Descendants of the native American peoples who inhabited Mesoamerica. They comprise around 15%-30% of the population[174][175][176]. The CDI identifies 62 indigenous groups in Mexico, each with a unique language.
Approximately 1% of Mexico's population is composed of other type of ethnic groups, these include Asian-Mexicans and Afro-Mexicans, descendants of slaves brought to Mexico, live in the coastal areas of the states of Veracruz, Tabasco and Guerrero and are mostly of mixed ancestry.
A person who in the United States would be called "Hispanic" or "African American" might be called "Branca" (white) in the racial categorization system commonly used in Brazil
The immigrants to the Americas came ultimately from every region of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Throughout America the immigrants mixed among themselves and with the indigenous inhabitants of the continent. In the United States, for example, most people who self-identify as African American have some European ancestors—in one analysis of genetic markers that have differing frequencies between continents, European ancestry ranged from an estimated 7% for a sample of Jamaicans to ∼23% for a sample of African Americans from New Orleans (Parra et al. 1998). Similarly, many people who identify as European American have some African or Native American ancestors, either through openly interracial marriages or through the gradual inclusion of people with mixed ancestry into the majority population. In a survey of college students who self-identified as white in a northeastern U.S. university, ∼30% were estimated to have less than 90% European ancestry
Compared to 19th century United States, 20th century Brazil was characterized by a perceived relative absence of sharply defined racial groups. According to anthropologist Marvin Harris (1989), this pattern reflects a different history and different social relations. Basically, race in Brazil was "biologized," but in a way that recognized the difference between ancestry (which determines genotype) and phenotypic differences. There, racial identity was not governed by rigid descent rule, such as the one-drop rule, as it was in the United States. A Brazilian child was never automatically identified with the racial type of one or both parents, nor were there only a very limited number of categories to choose from.
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