If Mexican isn't a Race, then what Race are they? Race of Hispanics and Latinos
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- If Mexican isn't a race, then what race are they? Today, we're going to be discussing the racial makeup of Hispanics and Latinos in Latin America and the United States, and the history of the region.
The situation of race and ethnicity in Latin America is extremely confusing for both outside observers as well as for those who actually live there, and I'm going to attempt to shed some light on the situation, which I can largely relate to. I've been studying the region for a long time, and although I'm not an expert, I do know a bit about the subject through speaking to my many Hispanic friends, and reading about the subject.
Be sure to let me know your thoughts on Latin America and Latinos! Thanks for watching!
Special thanks to my Patreon supporters who make these videos possible!
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Call me Latino, Hispanic , Mexican but NEVER call me “Latin X “
What's the context behind that word ? Referring to Latinx
@@magikarp1666 LatinX is simply a gender neutral way of referring any Latino. "Woke" people were getting annoyed that they had to say Latino(a) to include both men and women. So the "political correct" way to refer to the Latino population is by saying "LatinX".
Between you and me, it's like when you have to deal with having a conversation with someone that has proper pronouns...
@@straysheep5312in both the Spanish and English language when referring to a mixed gender group of people you use the male version.
English group you say, "hey guys"
Spanish group "hola ninos"
At least that's what I've learned from Duolingo and college Spanish classes.
Idk why people are acting like it's a brand new thing they need to fight against. Misgendering a man has always been viewed as the worst thing ever.
Why not? Makez u sound like a cyborg😂😂😂
dont care youre brown LOL
Man In mexico we never even talk about this kinda stuff in mexico we are just proud to be Mexican 😂😂😂
I know that's very funny this national pride is mistaken for racial pride. I remember most of my white Spanish peers in history class they use to say "nuestros antepasados? " Seran Los tuyos pinche indio!" when a proud classmate refer to the Aztecs. Indigenous were always the lowest social level, today you see many Indigenous origin people as Attorneys, accountants, CEO's,
Just ask jose Sanchez
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I very respect Mexicans. In my country, people are not united. Nobody wants to recognize their own person in everyone. Chechens, Tatars, Russians, Yakuts, Bashkirs - all are nationalists. But foreigners know us all as "Asian, Caucausian and Slav Russians".
Our country, Russia, is the largest only because it has remained an empire. The Spanish, British, Ottoman, Japanese, French, Portuguese Empire collapsed, and the Russian Empire simply changed its name to the period of socialism, and in the 90s again headed for imperialism and the dominance of Slavic Russians.
Mexicans love white skin thats all you see on spanish tv
I am a 100% Armenian, yet everyone in Florida thinks I am a Latino who pretends not to speak Spanish
Armenians look like light skinned mestizos, some pass as Italian too, especially if they dye there hair
Very interesting video as a mexican I wanted to check out this video out. There are many experiences regarding race in Mexico but our history is so convoluted that we just agree that we could have ancestors from everywhere. It has created a kind of common ground that no one should be superior just because the color of their skin.
Bruh. Stop lying. Look at who has the political and economic power in Mexico.
@@newagain9964 That has nothing to do with how the majority of mexicans identify with their roots. If you want to talk about politics that´s another subject.
Only three race of people were ever created by Yah/God- black , Asian and white
Why would it matter? I thought only whyte people can be rayciss? I'm a gringo with Mexican wife and lived there over 10 years. Mexico is WAY more rayciss than white America. Ask an indio o ranchero.
@@atatterson6992 dude, you´re a marvel for youtube comments. 1) What would what matter? You gotta be more specific. 2) Nobody said only white people could be racist. 3) The kind of racism you see in Mexico is not even close to the one you see in America. 4) How do you expect people to take you seriously when you have an Escobar profile picture?
Watch a mexican telenovela they are white skin with blue eyes and then you watch an american movie and they always put a mestizo or brown actor as a hispanic.
Eva Eagle it’s the same in Indian culture where Bollywood always uses light skin and hazel green eyes a lot, but Hollywood always portrays the same stereotype
So far I saw only 2 or 3 black actors in telenovelas cuz they're racist! There's black people in Mexico too. Most of us are BROWN.
Most of those light skinned actors aren’t even Mexican. Their from different Hispanic/Latino countries. Televisa has been known for discriminating those of indigenous backgrounds and African decent.
Really? I always thought that most of them, obviously except for the ones who are from Argentina or descendants of European immigrants, were mestizos, because that’s exactly what they’ve looked like to me all my life.
Mexico is america!.
I’m brown skin, brown eyes. I have two sisters who are white,greenish eyes. So it’s true that within the same family there can be huge differences.
I think you mean brown eyes
No one has black eyes smart ass
@@zeanzern4396 indeed I did. I guess I was thinking of my extreme black beautiful hair that all the ladies always admire
I can understand what you are saying. My family has around 50/50 of Dutch and German ancestry, my Mom is pure Dutch and my Dad is pure German. With my two youngest brothers and my sister having almost white blonde hair with blue eyes, while I have brown hair and brown eyes. What is also funny is my Dad has red hair.
Even though my family is 100% White/European the genetic differences between children and parents is surprising.
@Niko Ratković it's not black eyes, it's just very dark brown.
This was very informative. The pics of the people were my favorite, it reminded me of the beauty of humanity and that love is greater than hate. Much love.
Nice job. Additionally the pics were interesting as they demonstrated how nice looking people can be when you simply see them as people.
"Mexican" is a nationality. Most Mexicans are of a race known as "Mestizo" which is a mix of European and native blood. But there are many Mexicans of other races including pure European and pure Native blood.
And even that isn't a race because they are mixed in different ways
@@lilia8545 All races are mixed to some extent anyway unless you are talking about some highly isolated societies.
I'm just trying to figure out, should I thank him for mentioning the Reconquista, or piss and moan because he breezed over it without actually naming it?
There's no such thing as (pure), if there is show me and prove me wrong!
undeadpresident people from Iberia can not be pure as you say. They’re Arabs Jews African and maybe some local Iberians
Last time my father filled out an application he checked all the boxes lol...
I do that too.
Lol... great
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Yes! 🖤
Great video taught me something I never knew
Thank you so much for sharing. I was born here in the United States and my parents are from Mexico. As I do more research I came to realized that I’m not Latina but a mixture of race . And knowing my mother is an orphan I did a dna test to know my ancestry. Thank you m. Great video
When you're Mexican and you are just reading the comments of people that are not even Latino talking about your culture...well who wants mole?
Sofia Barrera true but their opinions are mostly racist or dumb.
ancap I don't have a clue what your trying to say, your adding illegals that's a irrelevant statement.
Sofia Barrera yo.!!
ancap lol.its easy to blame illegal.poor.weak.undefended people.your probably not even affected by illegals because you wouldnt know if you looked at one.stop watching news my friend.its agenda based news meant to make you mad.
ancap why are you going to comment and say bad words?take a look at yourself and your the one who cant take the heat.you even went as far as saying your vote was cast out of hate for a certain group.
Mexican families one brother can look more Spaniard and the other brother looks 100% indigenous.
I know cuz that is the case in my family
I'm paraguayan from italian descent (like many in the south of south america), and i'm white with black eyes and hair, my brother is blonde and green eyes and my sister is very brown but without any indigenous traits. There is not such a thing as a race anymore, we blended far too much a long time ago.
@@brunoactis1104
Not for us but,, but there is of a lot of indigenous blood out there that doesn't even speak Spanish
Maybe the "SANCHO" Enter in the family
Bruno Torres Hablas Guarani?
Elvis Presely looked Mestizo because he had Native American ancestors. Thing is that in the case of Anglo Americans they cut themselves slack and ignore it.
Great video , I’ve got so many mixtures that is kind of overwhelmed , I was born in Brazil 🇧🇷 , so yes African , American 🇺🇸, Italian , Native Indians, European yes great video !
Being called Latino and Hispanic is definitely one of the biggest inaccuracy labels in the US and elsewhere.
Latino is simply short for "Latin American" (Actual or of descent) because we couldn't tell where someone was originally from because of looks, accent (if). (or course many Hispanics- Latinos don't speak Spanish at all) so we said: Mira un "Latino"! Most used Hispanic (which I deem more appropriate and less confusing) Hispanic as in of Latin American origin. (Of course there are plenty of White, Indigenous, Asian, Black Latinos apart from the various Mestizo mixes. All this hogwash is so tiring. (Cameron Diaz, Linda Carter,(original Wonder Woman) Catherine Bach, Raquel Welch, Linda Ronstadt (Cali Governor's girlfriend) Rita Hayworth and many others are "Latinas" "Hispanics" "Mexicans" "Spanish".
So if it’s not Mexican, not Latino, or Hispanic... then what is it?😪 Im just so confused now.
I am from Mexico I am 80% indigenous 5 spaniard 2%arab 2%sicilian 1% African I call myself indigenous of Mexican nationality. I don't accept Spanish because I'm not from spain I am not latino because Im not from Italy.
You're completely wrong you need to revamp your research there's a book call before America which states different Origins of individuals throughout civilization and mesoamerica is a starter civilization and individuals on the continent have been there longer than the Pyramid of Giza look it up to the correct research stop giving phony information of after colonization
@@alexismartinez5410 being latino doesn't mean italian. Being Latino is having a genetic or cultural bond to the Latins. Altho you're barely European you can still be considered Latin American
I never ever questioned my race living in my country until i left my country a few years ago, where race seems to be a big thing outside Latin America, specifically the US
@Fuck Youbitch cuz no one in Mexico talks about race.
@Fuck Youbitch because they started watching t.v. gringa.
I didn't know my cousins were afromexicans. 😂
@Fuck Youbitch because in mexico we don't put attention to races.
@Fuck Youbitch we are all mixed but they have some afro from their mom side, and my uncle is white and native.
He visto varios videos que hablan de la diversidad racial y cultural en nuestras tierras al sur de los E.E.U.U. De veras que has hecho un buen trabajo en este video. Has explicado bastante bien la complejidad de America Latina.
En verdad ha hecho un trabajo de mierd@ en el momento en el cual trata de imponer un relato donde pone a hispano america como una sociedad de castas como la india y eso nunca fue el caso. Una sociedad de castas implica una sociedad estática donde si naces pobre mueres pobre y eso nunca fue el caso en la america hispana. En un sistema de castas jamás hubiese existido un Juan Latino o un Juan Bautista Valerio de la Cruz o un inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
Excelent work amigo
So Are you Black, White, Amerindian or Asian?
Latin American: Yes
mexicans are mixed with caucasian , american native(subrace of mongoloids)
@Chip exactly
@Vlad the guru dawg im mexican and idgaf about blm or black mexicans
Sure Vlad is a bit rude.
But. He is correct.
Spaniard blood into our Indian settlers in the Latin Americas happened after the fact that afro Latinos were being enslaved and casted off to different areas of the world to die off.
Central America?
Being a big area or that. In exclusive Belize and Panama.
Before you claim your European blood accept the fact that your afro Latino mestizo.
PeaceNLove
Haven’t done an dna test but hope I have some of every race
Mexican is a Nationality, not a race!!
ANTONIO VILARAIGOSA Your Mother Loves me though!😂✊🏾✌🏾
No shit
Eternal_Gemstone Wrong!! Spaniards come from Spain, again a Nationality not a race! Also Indian is not a race nore were they the first Native Americans!
Idc I call myself Mexican cause my origins are in Mexico.
Eddie Bro
Bruh I told a guy from mexico that I'm Mexican too.. But hes like "no you're not, Mexican is a nationality, ur only mexican if youre born in mexico or get citizenship" 😂.
Omg like how many times did I have to tell him that my heritage is Mexican & that I'm related to the nativeAmericans of Mexico. & that it doesnt matter if im from the US. My lineage is Mexico. I also told him that I'm more mexican than someone who is from Mexico with full European blood & 0 Native Ancestors from Mexico. FACTS. If a 100% european couple from Russia goes to Mexico & has a baby in Mexico, im still more Mexican than that baby. That baby has citizenship that says hes Mexican, hes Mexican through citizenship/papers... but im actually Mexican through heritage, lineage. & blood. Hence, we're more mexican than anyone in Mexico that doesnt have native Mexican ancestors. U dont need to be born in mexico to be Mexican. I'm a US citizen, & I'm Mexican.
I'm Mexican & I'm a US citizen.
I dont have Mexican citizenship, but Im still Mexican through heritage, lineage, culture, & blood.
Love this video thank you
Excellent video Mas!
I was taught when I was a kid by parents that no matter how pale or dark you are, there's at least a drop of amerindian blood in all of us (New Zealand's ethnic perspective seems the closest to this ideal)
And let's be honest, no matter how dark or pale we are, to the taquero we'll always be "güero" XD
"Cuantos les pongo güero?"
The funny thing about the New Zealanders is their ancestors were the white wakapapas who were already on the island when the Polynesians came they were white white like the chachapoyas of Peru with blonde hair and facial and body tattoos before they intermarried they were just Polynesians . Those dances with the Haka dance and tattoos are all to honor them. There’s a documentary called New Zealand skeletons in the cupboard about the whakapapa lineage and a few families left with the blonde and red hair.
@Heidi Hoe they had families of whaka blondes in the documentary skeletons in the cupboard new zealand and they traced them to India and originally persia which now doesn't look a thing ethnically like it once did. It's like going back to America and expecting it to be indigenous but finding everyone else there . The truth is people are always migrating and the idea of whites come from europe and blacks from africa, asians from asia ect work most of the time but not in many cases, in which the smithsonian will sweep it all under the rug. Like the original population of new zealand . It's something no one wants to touch ,but the remains are still there.
How dark or light we are mattered in the past lol 😆
How dark or light we are mattered in the past lol 😆
After watching this video, I don’t even know what to call myself anymore. All I know, is that I’m happy I get to enjoy tamales and tacos in my culture 😎🤘🏽
Call yourself Human, as there's only one race - the Human Race - everything else was made up for political reasons. By the way, I'm Latino, as I'm Portuguese. Latino means descendant of Latin (the language spoke on the Roman Empire). All romance language countries are Latino countries.
Everybody should have themselves a tamal and a taco or two
Call yourself based on your nationality , easy . However learn about DNA and race is a science, you can trace your ancestors for curiosity but you belong to where you and grandparents country of birth.
@@ruialmeida818 I think they say latino of from a place called latium
@@captainredan5339 The original Latin dialect was named after Latium (central Italian region of which the city of Rome is part). The latino countries are the romanced language countries which were part of the Roman Empire, thus, Portugal is a Latino country, as well as Spain, France, Italy among others, although Spain, Italy and Portugal are usualy the ones identified as such.
Great Video!🇺🇸
@4:23 Wish there was more pictures and information on the moors, 🟫 great doc though man!
Only in Mexico can you have a cousin that looks like a nopal, and the other like a cheeseburger 😂
O sushi 😂
@@Isuck784 that’s a good one
In the States too! I have cousins that look like burnt frybread and others who look like the dough before browning the frybread in the pan! 😂😂😂
@Peter September South Africa is always with Mexico brother 🙏 if we could travel as freely as we want I think a lot of us want to take our parents there. It’s beautiful land much like ours❤️
Im glad Im European white.
It’s amazing how many people don’t know the difference between nationality and race
While nationality is real, race is a lie. Science is the ultimate barrier against lies.there are no white people let alone a white race.There are no yellow people let alone a yellow race, the same with red people and a red race. There are however, brown and black people , but you will never hear a brown person refer to himself as a brown. Africans in the diaspora refer to themselves as black, but that is because of the influence of the European criminals who forced them into bondage and removed all knowledge of their prior culture, language, and religion, and imposed their European names and everything else on them. If you travel to Africa you will never hear an African refer to himself as a black, even though his skin color might be jet black. I am Nigerian and Kenyan. As long as you deny the truth and play the silly race and color game you will be lost in the BS that it is based on, and that BS is based on bigotry.
Agree. When the speaker first spoke, he said he was an ‘American,’ Mexicans are also Americans (?).
In the U.S. it's comical that we identify a black person as Afro-American. What if that person was from Afro-European or from Africa, then how do we identify them? Do we just call them Africans? Is we do, we’ll get shot.
That’s our education system for yal
It's amazing how many people still believe humans have races.
@@tjwonderboy ethnicity. Ethnical. Oregon Masters .
Informative. Thank you Mason!
MEXICO IS VERY UNIQUE
COMO MEXICO NO HAY DOS !!!!
VIVA MEXICO & I don’t care about the rest
I’m very proud to be Mexican from QUE CHULA ES PUEBLA
Whack
I hope you live in Mexico.
Super interesting. Well done.
Mexico is super diverse and it's important to note all of the different ethnic groups/cultures that exist within each region.
Mexico is not diverse and everyone looks the same. America is diverse and Mexico is just orange people. Like the rest of the clearly Hispanic ppl
Europeans in Mexico can get their recognition back in Europe.
@@kobejames5788 us it's not more diverse than México , us is more white homogeneous
@@kobejames5788 How do you know how diverse he thinks it is?
Yes there are White European Mexicans indigenous Mexicans and Black African Mexicans
I love open honest conversations of race and racial history. Some people get totally weird talking about race and the histories of race because of how bad it often is but thats no reason to ignore it
Dylan Cleary same!!
Dylan Cleary Many people use it to further their political agenda.
Paul Lavender they sure Do, liberals are the worst! If a person doesn't agree with a Looney lib, they're considered a Racists, bigot, homophobic, islamaphobic, etc etc. Liberalism is a mental disorder!
Amalgamaite
Why because your bitch ass can't handle the truth??? We don't need to be around you people to know our true history!!!
I bet your dumb ass still believes that Columbus discovered a land that wasn't lost!!! A lie taught to you by whitey, you fucking sub-human.
and they just proved your point that you can't. lol
Hey Masaman, long time subscriber-just had to say I'm now in college and this video is listed as a supplemental material for the module in my class. I guess you made it. (Ha!)
loved your video! I have both parents that are from Mexico but on my moms side my great great grandfather is Parisian and my grandmother had these amazing beautiful blue eyes so I can definitely say I have mixed DNA for sure :D
Anyone: Are you...?
Mexicans: “Yes... everything.”
Mexicans is what we are!
So if to you and a lot of other people claim that Mexicans are of mixed race, what are the 27 million indigenous cultures of Mexico? i will tell you what and who they are, they are the true 100% Mexicans the original people of Mexico! The name/word Mexico and mexicano is derived from the Nahuatl word (mexica), the original tribe/tribes better known in the modern time as the Aztecs. So this false idea that all Mexicans are mestizos is a myth! The base of what is known today of the Mexican culture come from the original tribes/cultures of Mexico. 68 different languages spoken in Mexico plus much more dialects combined they equal around 200. Spanish supposedly is the official language of Mexico but the spanish spoken in Mexico is so mixed with words that are indigenous or are derived from a indigenous language and are not found in the spanish dictionary. Mexico is known as an indigenous country because of the so many indigenous cultures, its history, traditions and folclore. So Mexico and Mexicans is more indigenous than what you think they are!
I look mexican but i speak english speak very little spanish my parents didnt speak english only spanish my mother was white mx and pops was dark skinned mx more native im light skinned mx am im 64% native and east asian mestizo
@@HectorinPinguin and that is relevant because ...?
Tiare Zavaleta and what is your relevance for anything???
Rando person: "So you're like Mexican, right?"
Me, born in the U.S, knowing what they mean but don't really feel like getting into it: "... sureeee."
Jeff Albillar You are so idot stupid AMERICA IS A ALL CONTINENT no’t only USA.
Jajajjajajja yes tks abla espanol y seras mas intelijente so try to learn more.
Well, in his defense, that is the only way someone from the US understands nationality.
"American" just means from USA here.
We can't say we're "United States of American" lol.
"United Statesian" lol
"USAican" lol
It's just "American"
@@jeffalbillar7625 You look worse by responding him with such a misspelled sentence, pretty much repeating what you called him out for
@@jeffalbillar7625 The commonly accepted term in the USA and other countries. In Latin American countries America is South and North America plus hundreds of islands around and in between. The America´s is a USA way of trying to differentiate.
You are so right when I went to Mexico City they talked about this in the tour class chart. I'm from New Mexico I did my I was mostly Spanish secondary Native and had Middle Eastern disent
Here in Japan the assumption is if you’re a foreigner that you’re American or possibly Jamaican. It’s not offensive. It’s just convenient.
The poster for Brazil around 6:00 is really interesting. It’s from before WW2 when writing was right to left and advertised to lower middle class implying that they could be upper middle class in Brazil. Funny how greed works in advertising even under a tyrannical military dictatorship.
BS
For us latinos living outside the US it is surprising and disconcerting to see how much of a focus on race there is in the US. Here in Costa Rica race is not really an issue. There is a lot of discrimination and xenophobia but it stems from cultural and socioeconomic factors, not race.
Exactly the same in Mexico. I have had fights against gringos that tell me Im wrong about MY OWN nationality. Some have told me I have to chose between white, Mexican and Jewish as if all of those cant coexist.
Its fascinating how triggered they get when you challenge their race views. No one, and I mean no one from Latin America has even batted an eye when I tell them Im mexican
@UC8LanIm1cEsaywE4-ZCxDXQ, then don't come to latin America you asshole, since you don't want latinos in America
Latins are from De Lazio, Italy.
Hispanos are from Hispania, now Spain, ancient provincia of ROMAN EMPIRE.
Why they are latins or hispanic?
@@angelicadayanafernandez1525
Latins are from Del Lazio, Italy.
Hispanos are from Hispania, now Spain, ancient provincia of ROMAN EMPIRE.
Why you are latins or hispanic?
@@sonsolescruchaga8553, because we have been colonized by white people coming from spain
One day I found an American who said he was half white, half native American
I said "orale ese, you are one of us man"
Im proud to be more native american than spanish im 64% native and east asian 2% siberian soy chino yoy chicano ese
@@davidortega357 Basicly you are un Mestizo...
What is the average Native American ancestry of an American self-identifying as white? It's not zero, but it's probably quite low. The one-drop rule made it quite a disincentive for Americans during decades to marry non-white spouses.
Freddy Pedraza OW TELL THEM OR HIM THAT, AN AMERICAN IS ANYONE BORN IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT SINCE OUR ANCESTORS THE SPANIARDS OF 1942 NAMED THIS CONTINENT AMERICA, THEN CONQUERED IT, POPULATED IT AND INTERMARRIED WITH THE NATIVES( WHOM BY THE WAY ARE THE LÍDER TRIBE OF ISRAEL, JOSEPH”S, HE IS/ WAS THE LÍDER OF THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL NOT THE JEWS, JUDAH) SO WE ARE IT!
@@andres6868 But they are still Caucasoid and White/Red Nordid...
i work at a gun store here in Texas and the form we us for the background check uses that same template that the US census uses as well, i would say lazy but its also hard when even ethnically people from Mexico or other south american countries do not understand these concepts i just explain it as it would be too much paperweork to fill out if they had all people in the "white" category put what exact ethnicity they are because of course if you look at all the other ethnic backgrounds that fit into white you have Irish, Italian, Slavic and so on and we all know some of those categories can have vast differences in looks as well
Proud to be Mexican American. The Mexican culture is wonderful and complete, and lucky to be born into this tribe. America is truly the hope of the world, if we don't screw it up. Am swarthy, so plenty of Indian in me, Yaqui. Love it everyday.
A lot of Mexican Americans have Yaqui ancestry.
Mexican here. Took a DNA test and said I was 50% Spanish, 30% native Mexican, and 20% trace amounts of other backgrounds.
So your pretty much Spanish. That's the dominant side of you.
@@castro_d1898 well I have green eyes and light skin so no surprise here.
Pangea Play not at all
The 20% trace amounts is likely Middle Eastern blood, because before Spaniards left Europe to colonize the Americas, Arabs had conquered Spain for over 700 years, and so a lot of Spaniards have admixture from the Middle East. This explains why there are Spanish & Hispanic people with similar features to middle easterners (tan skin, full lips, dark hair/eyes). Southern Italians are also proven to have on average around 28% middle eastern admixture, which is why they get made fun of by central and northern Italians who are fully white.
@@lydiayoukhanna absolutely you're speaking pure knowledge 💯 that is all correct.
I like to have fun with stuff like this. When guys mention they're dating a Spanish girl I always ask them from which autonomous community in Spain the girl is from. Totally messes with them
@@user-qt9vx5qs8h Arabs denominated Spain as Al-Andalus, just as the Jews denominated Spain Sepharad or as the Romans denominated Spain Hispania. But people from today Autonomous region of Andalucía in Spain or España are not related to Arabs as that region was repopulated with Christians at the end of the Reconquista and muslims were expelled from Spain as were the Jews.
@@user-fv1lc2qm3e they do but after they expel the moors from spain they went really hard on making sure they got rid of them, so there is some moor blood but not as much as u would think for being there for 700 years
Ricardo is also my name, as well Ryszard, Ryehard, & Ричард. Working retail security for 20+years, I do recall attempting to interpret for many. Management just assumed they were all one & the same.
d j mmmm put a Spanish and an Arab or Jew together you won’t see any difference, and on the other side there the Spanish who descent from Germanic tribes, blonde not an Arab beard etc
@@diegolopez000 Shup up mexican
I'm a 4th generation American of Mexican decent. My family came to this country from Mexico in 1930s, fought in WW2 and Vietnam, worked the fields in the 60s & 70s in the Civil rights movement in 60s, but will never be excepted by Mexicans or even some Caucasians, that is the Chicano culture born and raised in California.
Yes ur an American not because ur born in the USA, ur an American cause ur ancestors are from the americas. Therefore ur an American (continent) of Mexican descent( area of continent)
Because my mother was one of 12 siblings that was born in the USA…my Mexico born cousins didn’t like playing with me because I was the “Americana” cousin. 😂
Mexicans are Caucasian, was told this by an educated person from Mexico. Italians have almost the same color of skin, what race are they? It's 2024 let's stop seeing skin color, we are not tribal savages anymore. Love one another ❤️
Armenians LOVE Mexicans! We love your food, your people, your family values, your work ethics, and your faith in Jesus. Viva la Mexico 🇺🇸🇦🇲🇲🇽 ✊🏼
Love is a strong word. I’ve met many Armenians and yes they like us but not love us. They don’t want Hispanics marrying Armenians.
Work ethics. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@celenefuentes1603 Have you seen the movie Walk In The Clouds. When the Mexican dad didn’t want his daughter marrying a white guy. Come on.. that old school mentality exists in every culture.
@@keinokfarang851 yes work ethics. Some of the best US Marines I served with were Mexicans.
@@keinokfarang851 ? 😐
Mexico is a nationality, not a race. Like the USA, Mexico is a multi-racial country.
jas dhanjal I’ve even heard there are white and brown Indians 😂👍. The only bad of this is that apparently the white Indian is more appreciable I don’t know you tell me
We don't have black people in Mexico. There is a small population of Haitians but not many.
jolumi1984 yeah you do, not as much compared to the states but there their
@@micahbradley7024 you're right.
@@jolumi1984 aren't Haitians largely black??
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After WW2 The U.S. exhiled a lot of Japanese Americans to Mexico, some returned to Japan and others decided to stay.
Back then right after WW2, Mexico had the largest Japanese population outside of Japan I believe.
My home city of Veracruz, we have somewhat large population of Japanese-Mexican descendants but also French and German descent. I think there's also Indonesian-Mexican small population.
USA: Obama was the first not white president in North America.
México: Awww, the ignorance!
Vicente Guerrero (1829)
@ariskava Thank you. Aren’t we always blaming Canada for our stupidity. MX, as well.
@ariskava no, I meant the 3 countries that are located in North America.
Of course Obama was the first black president of the US. And Canada has not had a not white leader. That's why I said it that way 🙄
@ariskava North America includes Mexico as well. Didn't you learn that in Geography?
Actually obama was the third non white president in north america because the second non white president was benito juarez of mexico, he's was of indigenous descent.
@@tamcanct9284 we don't talk about dictators here, especially those who look like Kemonito
My DNA test came back
56% NATIVE AMERICAN
34% Euro/Spanish
The rest was mixed up
Mexican BTW
AX7 Duran what company did you use to take a dna test?
Are you, prieto?
yup thats what an american or mexican is but the European part changes to spain or british
Israel Esquivel
most def lmaoooo
@@johnayala9939 The thing with Americans is that anglosaxon settlers didn't mix with the locals, they either exterminated them or resettled them. And every wave of immigrants kept more or less to themselves and their group.
Spot on video bro. I am around 50% native American and 50% spanish European from Mexico. On the US census I have to put I am a White Hispanic, while my skin in light brown lol my sister does gave kinda white skin. She has no brown in her.
i would say that this video is very accurate, but failed to mention one little detail. tthere are some couuntries were the racial groups are more or less divided in the sicoal contex, for example, countries like mexico, venezuela, colombia, ecuador (mainly the grand colombia ones) are the ones with the most persistent "mestizo" race and as such you can see that these coutris are more race-blind than for exapple, brazil (whre the doominance of the portuguesse royalty lasted loger because they had to flee when napoleon conquered them), argentina, that has a clear betwen navitive and erupean descendents, same as chile, and there are even cases of extreme racial dominance by afrodescendent coutries, like Haiti, cuba, and puerto rico.
i hahve to say that liiving in brazil for 5 years now, i miss the acctual colorblindnes from venezuela/colombia/mexico, it is trully something that you have to live to feel, and i dont know if a foreigner could get to feel it on just a trip, you kinda have integrate to the socieety and be conseired a part of it to take off the label of "visitant" to "famiily".
The crazy mix in races is what makes us pretty lol
Excellent point 👍🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
I love their brown bodies!
Exotic look.
My faverite mixed race women are black and Spanish
@@brandonloudermilk8634 African and European race then?
Mexico real name is actually los estados unidos mexicanos (united mexican states/united states of México)
@please view me are you from Mexico? Lol
@Truth Be told XD y tu vives a qui? Estados unidos de Mexico (United states of Mexico) menso
It should've been "Estados Unidos Mexicanos en America ".
@Truth Be told Mexica is the name of the principal tribe of the Aztec empire and is in the Shoshonean language family. The name Mexico had no meaning in the nahuatl language sub family and was inspired by the word Mexica, and incorporated into the region or colonies of Spain, and used by the white "Mexicans " when they rebelled against their " white mother country ". The country of Mexico was invented, and it's independence from Spain was declared by the white men who defeated the native Indians of Mexico and stole their lands. Mexico was not declared independent from Spain by Native Americans nor was Mexico established by Native Americans for Native Americans. American Indians had no rights when Mexico was established. It was established as a white country for white people, just like the United States of America.
Adams better than your app appearly. Tu no sabes wuey.
Both of my parents were born in Mexico but when I tested my DNA I found I was only 37% Indigenous American (Mexican) and
48% Spanish
6% Portuguese
4% African
2% Jewish
2% Italian
1% Balkan (Greek)
My mom has light skin, green eyes, wavy hair, my dad had brown skin, brown eyes, curly hair. I have light skin, brown eyes, and curlyish wavy hair. People sometimes think I'm middle eastern.
Years ago I worked with a group of engineers from Mexico. Most of them would have probably described themselves as mestizo. One of them, however, was a blonde-hair, blue-eye guy with a German last name. At first I thought he was Argentinian - our company had operations in that country at that time, and many Germans has settled there - but to my surprise, this gentlemen informed me he was Mexican. He told me that he was a descendant of a group of German immigrants to Mexico in the late nineteenth century. It was then I started to ask more questions and seek answers to came to the conclusion that Mexico is a racially diverse nation.
Panama - that is similar to Brazil in very racially diverse.
Good video!
How can I inform you that Mexico was the second Latin country after Brazil with the most German descent, I tell you as a German descent
@@victoria-ct4vf I did not know that. Thank you for your input!
i am brazilian and in my group of friends we have a polish, a german, a black, a jew, a native american and i am half japanese, so yea, we are pretty diverse
We have germans in argentina, but most of us have spanish , italian and native blood.
That's because Mexican is a nationality and not a race. Race is what you look like. Nationality is what country you and your family are a citizen of.
Americans don’t even know geography and they want to understand races 😂.
Yea?
Ignorance is a luxury they feel they can afford because being American should be enough.
What's wrong about understanding humans?
Wait so ur mad that they are trying learn more about Mexico . What's wrong with that?
Stop speaking for all of us
One Halloween, many years ago, a Mexican friend, educated as aircraft engineer, called me over to join their party. He said there would be a guest from another country, that I hadn't met before. That 'unknown' friend turned out to be a Moroccan Muslim, head gear, long robe et al. Well groomed beard, mustache and dark glasses (Ibn Saud came to mind). He almost had me going and laughed as I stood there, a bit puzzled looking.
Later, his claim that many Mexicans' backgrounds were a mix of different races, such as Spanish/Portuguese, Northern Africans and even New World Indios, got me thinking. I couldn't stop, but look at him over and over that evening.
Ever since then I began to look at Mexicanos with different eyes, such as "what would this guy look like, if he wasn't wearing jeans and t-shirt, but a turban and flowing robes" ? And why not? After all, the (darker skinned) Moores had a significant presence on the Iberian Peninsula before America was discovered and - I assume - some of the Spanish crew would have been made up by men who looked just like my friend. Not possible? I wonder ?
As a Half-Canadian/Half-Spaniard white hispanic American living in Puerto Rico, I fully support your video.
Man im pale white with blue eyes , but my grand father is straight indigenous, cheif looking type dude
HETEROSEXUAL jajaja ke
My grandmother is indigenous as they come and I dont look anything like her. I can't even tan man. I'm pale as the moon with have reddish blonde hair in my beard bro. Totally understand where you're coming from.
Boy stop it he was a 5 dollar Indian natives are black copper colored not milk colored
@@Backroadslim301 I'm exotic indigenous
Italians and spaniards are labeled as "white", though maybe half of the population of those contries are more brown than many mestizos. Btw, i'm paraguayan from italian descent, i'm pretty white with black hair and black eyes, my brother is blonde with green eyes and my sister looks very brown but without any indigenous traits. Race in humanity it's a long dated form of agrupation.
I never thought about what race I was till I started involving in the "American" culture, heck I didn't even think I had to identify with a race, I'm from the DR btw
Im in love with your country and the people there... i sware you guys are some of the must loving fun people there is and i know must Dominicans say its dangerous but every time i go there i feel like everybody has alot of love to give... i use to go every year since 2014 untill my wife moved here... she from santo domingo( los alcarrizos) i feel you i think us just as hispanics we really never really think about race untill we hit high school age... and even than we only identify as Hispanic or latino... my family is from El Salvador... but i understand our history as hispanics... honestly i really belive our history is way more beatifly than the U.S. history... do you know why Hispanics are of mix race and culture compared to the U.S. where segregation was a big deal... its becouse of the catholic church in spain they said it was ok for a spanish man to take an African or Native woman as his wife... where here in the U.S that was not cool... segregation hit hard here in the U.S thats why you have pure white people here... unlike in latin america you can look white but your must likely going to be of mix race...
Santi Kingz Ha! I live in Los Alcarrizos! What part of Los Alcarrizos. I live near El Puente Blanco and work in Pueblo Nuevo!
Yes, I agree. When I came to this country as a little kid I was puzzled by the classification of races. The system brainwashed their citizens from a very early age.a
@@edwinlucianofrias1643 small world lol... ayi mismo en pueblo nuevo en la calle 21...
@@santikingz yes bro very well said, i love this...peace & love to you
I was born in 1971 and grew up in Texas. The term Mexican was synonymous with Hispanic of Mexican descent, because the term American was synonymous with Anglo of light skin. After leaving Texas and traveling the world in the Navy, it's a pretty silly term because there are so many Hispanics from the Caribbean who obviously are not of Mexican descent.
the are literally millions of white people living in Latin America.
Argentina is basically a white country because Argentina never had a native American population or if they had, they got assimilated, married with white Europeans and eventually the native population diluted into nothing.
same story with Uruguay.
the most famous "Hispanic" person in South America is the football player Lionel Messi. he is more white than the damn Santa Claus. or a Scandinavian person.
@@LevisH21Messi is mestizo
I was born in Mexico and I am white. It really bothers me when every now and then when I'm asked by Mexicans and I tell him/her that I was born in Mexico they tell me "pero no Eres de sangre Mexicana" (but you don't look like you have Mexican blood) I find it offensive and racist. What does Mexican blood supposed to look like?
When they say you don't look like you have mexican blood, I think they assume all mexicans look like light brown/brown toned mestizos. Especially because mestizos are the majority in all of Latin America. And yes there are Europeans living there as well. I heard a lot of white european mexicans live predominantly in the northern part of mexico. Is this true?
I was born in the United States, and I don't consider myself American simply because I didn't grow up with this culture, I didn't grow up with the language and I don't look white 🤷♀️
I had to scroll down to see the comments expecting to see a lot of horrible comments but to my surprise all were mostly awesome.. thanks for the educational video 😘
Cassandra Hernandez YES ARMOR COME AND LET ME KISS YOU MY FLOWER😙
Because Mexicans are awesome.
I'm surprised you say that since there were many bigoted comments against Caucasians. I guess that is okay to you
This channel is only visit by people who puts the science on top of believes that is why the comments are far more understanding that the majority of the social media comments
Well, most of his statements are based on facts and not in political views, but everybody see who wants to see, if you see this as political view you'll see it that way no matters how many facts he adds to his videos.
To be honest I don't see any political view on this or philosophy the only thing I see is facts with data and locations well documented.
If someone wants to add a political view to that is their own believes
I'm Mexican, my great-grandfather from my mom's side came from Japan and in the town where my dad was born supposedly some Spanish people settled there so that's why some people there have European features. So yeah, in Latin America we are mix of everything
@SABRINA C. D. why you bother what Americans think?
Yes
@SABRINA C. D. Yes,they stereotype all the time.. Very close minded & don't realize all nationalities have mixed with other's at one point or another.. It's definitely very annoying
@SABRINA C. D. so true! I am Canadian. Born to a black mother and a white father. My skin is light as a young person (when most people here were white, and someone like me was rare) people would ask if I was Italian or Hawaiian. As an adult when I was near the border people would speak to me in Spanish thinking I was latino. Now that I've done my DNA I know that my blood is super mixed...40% from France and more "white" blood from England, Whales, Germany etc. Also part native from the Americas, Spain, a few parts of Africa, but really more "white" dna than anything else but like in the US I still consider myself black. When I meet dark skinned people from parts of Africa they are always surprised that I call myself black, in their homeland they say women with my complexion call themselves white. Meanwhile I'm always working on my tan to be darker! Lol
@@idontlikepeople9389 porque son unos ignorantes y racistas (algunos de ellos)
My mom is Mestizo and My Dad is Slavic so am I Castizo?
My wife and her family are from Mexico, they are Mexican, and proud of it.
Mexican: A nationality
Latino: Living in Latin America
Hispanic: Spanish speakers.
Mexicans are Hispanic AND Latino because they speak Spanish and live in Latin America. Brazilians are Latino, but they are not Hispanic because they speak Portuguese. Easy.
@Rachel Randall
Latino = "Mestizo"
Hispanic = white man, Black man, Asian man wo born in Latin america and speak spanish in United states. descendant of Hispanic are maybe hispanic if they speak spanish :)
and in the largestmajority they're Latino beceause the majority of people Latino and Hispanic in usa are Mexican and mexican people are "Mestizo"
Mexican it's a nationality and a race
Lorenzo Spitaleri If thats so then are Filipinos and Equatoral Guineans Hispanic?
Actually there is a large portion of Brazilians that speak only Spanish.
A Rodriguez where ? 98% of Brazilians speak only Portuguese
Portuguese can't be seen as white bc Portuguese ppl has the highest african DNA percentage in Europe. Also Portuguese ppl are not Mediterranean but Atlantic ppl. Portugal has no border/contact with the MediterraneanSea.
Brazilians are Latinos bc they speak Portuguese and that's a Latin language.
They are not Hispanics, just like Surinam is not Hispanic, difrence between those 2 is that Surinam ppl aren't Latinos bc they don't speak Latin.
The French also made their mark in Mexico as well
That doesn't fit in with the USA mentality towards Mexico or Mexicans. They prefer to believe that the only Europeans that settled in Latin America were Spaniards and that all other Europeans settled in the USA and Canada. One American asked about Fidel Castro said that he was a Rock and Roll star. Another American asked where the Great Wall of China is said that it is in Australia.
@@radrook4481 oh well !
Yeah it's why Mexican bread rules
Agreed~!!!
@@radrook4481 not all of the US citizens are retards
I for instance already knew this
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At 8.25, the comment says half-white/half native American while showing a young woman that looks totally European. It seems that many people in the US assume that if one person does not have a northern European kind of look (well, pale skin/blue eyed/light haired, etc.) means that this person is not European, or that this person must been mestiza…
It is a deep misunderstanding of what is Europe. Europe is not only northern Europe. At least Half of Europeans, if not more, are not fitting this stereotype that many US Americans seems to have
When you really think about mestizo is still of Native American descent which would mean in the censes many Hispanics would be right in checking the Native American block.
@@hiphipjorge5755 white is skin colour not a race.
Exactly
I check it
@@selenealvarado84 your ancestors slaughtered the indians.
Exactly.. these people need school
My wife is from Mexico. Her family is from Spain and Egypt. At least this is the story that she knows. She told me that the minute that she settled with me in the US, she instantly became Latina. Or just another Mexican. We are moving back to Mexico and although culture is shared, my wife does get treated with higher status due to her lighter skin. Our children have come in all skin tones. In the US, I am not seen as really being white in certain circles. But in Mexico, I am just another gringo.
This is something that the Spanish created with the castas and it has prevailed up to this day.
I agree with her. In Mexico we don’t go out and say “we are Latinos”. We just say Mexican. Here, the term Latino is different
Usamos el término gringo para referirnos principalmente a los estadounidenses, sin importar tu color de piel o tus antepasados creciste toda tu vida en Estados Unidos y eso te hace estadounidense y gringo para los mexicanos
If you were Black American, in Mexico you will still be called gringo, got it?
Don’t you have no shame laying down with the enemy? Second hand embarrassment.
As a "gringo" from the northeast of the US, I admit that my knowledge on Hispanic culture was limited. However, when I married a Mexican-American from El Paso, TX, I got a great, big crash course in Latin American ways and culture. :)
Stay in the northeast.
Mexico is such a beautiful country of art, culture, and heritage.... A land of different types of indigenous people, Spanish, and African people who migrated this artistic country...
Mexican mestizo here ( native and European) I've always known that as a mestizo I'm part native and part European but I definitely I don't identify as either.
Youre also part Arab if you have spaniard blood
Adrián Velázquez
Más pareces castizo que mestizo.
Im Mexican American mestizo born in Calif my dad is from Jalisco mx im 60% native 4% east asian and 28 euro white 7% others i do look mexican i.pass for indian
They aren’t a “race.” They are largely a mix of ethnic groups, hence the Spanish word “mestizos.” All this goes to show is the futility and foolishness of attempting to define a “race.” Identity politics is a dead end.
Exactly! I'm not "half indigenous, half european"
Dude I can’t count how many American born Hispanics/Latinos I’ve had to explain this too. They don’t even understand their own genetics. Love it when they go about “I hate white people” bitch you’re literally at least half white lmao
@@Wilhelmofdeseret no
@@brightlights1528 yes
@@Wilhelmofdeseret We don't have the conception of "races" that you have, we are not "haLF wHitE"
Everyone’s so obsessed with specifics when our tios and papas called every other thing a chingadera
One think I don’t care for is being referred to as “brown” . I’m a mixture between Native American “ Inca and taino “ and Spaniard with a dash of French and Italian. So technically I’m a red Spaniard or mestizo.
I know the struggle! I'm American born but my parents were both born in Mexico and are mixed.
I'm 30% European, 30% East Asian, 35% Native American, 0.2% African, and some middle Eastern... So don't ask me what am I.
We are all "Out of Africa," and your nationality is American. I might also submit that you are a very beautiful person.
If that is you in the picture, I would have to say you are 100% Fine! I'm just a Big Dummy so who am I to say...😏
So I’m not gonna ask you what you are but that would make you mixed race as well
And you are very pretty by the way
This is priceless ;D you're all too thirsty jesus.
Technically Canadians and Mexicans are also Americans because they live on the American continent
SOUTH AMERICA IS A THE THIRD WORLD AND NORTH AMERICA IS THE FIRST WORLD
Jackson Ramsey they do, its called North America
ninetoyoskull thank you, not a lot of people know that the real Americans speak Spanish and lot were pushed into Mexico and half were made US Citize
Jackson Ramsey thanks man!!!! I love you for this!!!
Smart ass
My wife of 27 years is Mexican from Guanajuato Mexico, she has the darker indian look but after doing ancestry DNA we discovered she's mostly European.
i myself am mexican/chicano & alot of my family come in different colors. my grandma looks black & alot of her children look lightskinned/mixed with black including my mom. however, my grandmas sisters all either look black, native american, & she even has a sister who is white & has red hair 😂 i have cousins who also look white & have blue eyes but are mexican & i have cousins who look hella middle eastern. one of my moms sisters even looks indian. even my sister looks black 😂😂 (we all have afros & tight curl patterns) we are probably mixed race as fuckk & we dont even know
Mexico Greetings from Chechen Republic
saludos n.n/
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¡HOLA!😀
Somos como el Mole... una combinación de varios chiles... JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
jajaja cierto, pero eso vale para todos los pueblos del mundo!
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THE RACIAL FOUNDATION IS NATIVE AMERICAN , MONGOLIAN RACE FROM NORTH ASIA ORIGINALLY
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Aki traigo tu chilé lol
There is Polish,Irish, French,German,Japanese,Chinese..I hope you get the message and they consider themselves Mexican..God bless them all...yours very truly Alfonso Cantu USMC
I never know what to put whenever I get these kind of questions in a survey. Hispanic (people that speak Spanish) or Latino (people that come from a country that their language derives from latin) are not a race but a group of people.
I am mexican, im very light skinned, green eyes... and my sister is tanned skin, dark eyes
She looks like my mom’s family (they’re mixed with spaniards) and i look more like my father’s family (they’re mixed with french)
as a white guy I always wonder why my wife is dark like a walnut type color but her mom is very light and could pass for a English woman with long dark hair
@@SuperZombiepimp it’s the native mixed with Spaniard blood 🤷♀️ both my parents are dark and brown/black haired while I came out pale with blonde hair
Ditto... I am white (-skinned) and have green eyes. My daughter is blonde and blue-eyed. Ignorant Americans have no idea what a Hispanic is. There are many Hispanics with more "white" characteristics than actual "white" people.
@UCB_ie_pca07nYa2wUeYSXTA if you mean the eye color, its my dad who is blue eyed.... my mom’s eyes are dark brown.
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Hispanic=any persons who's native language is spanish
Latino=any person of latin decent (latin america)
These terms are often miss used in America to refer exclusively to mexicans. Spaniards are caucasian yet are still hispanic. Brazilians are latino but not hispanic. Mexicans just happen to be both.
What the hell does latin decent mean?
@@bootstrap52 you really trying to get educated on youtube, read my man.
according to Europe, Spaniards aren't caucasian actually LOL. Masa has a video on this.
@@Masaru_kun well that guys a fucking idiot then.
@@Masaru_kun chinese are African as well then if were going to stretch DNA that far back. All life started in Africa every human on earth has some African DNA, humans migrated away and evolved this is darwin 101. Spaniards are caucasian and everybody in europe agrees, hell the entire world does.
I always thought about this in America we get these vague umbrella terms. The census is dumb.
Arab & white here with the name Rafaël. Now i understand why people ask me if i'm from brasil considering you havw so many race including middle eastern
My grandmother is Mexican and Italian her father migrated from Italy to nueva italia Michoacan. Last name Manzo which means bull or beef in Italian.
Really ? My last name is manzo. But I’m way more native indigenous than anything else.
My last name is Manzo and my great grand father was Italian and my great grandma was African and my grand parents are from Michoacán too
Samantha M damm. Last name is I very diverse
Same my great grandfather was from South Italy and Migrated to Nueva Italia Michoacan.
Nice! I'm always looking for a video explaining our racial heritage in Latin America! Latino is a label used to encompass a gigantic area of very complex racial and ethnical compositions that americans and europeans tend to lump in one race. Thank you for talking about it!
Thank u so much
The Aztecs and Mayans would not consider Mexicans today to be part of their race or ethnicity.
They would see them as foreign as Cortez.
Even the native Americans in North America did not consider them to be native, and would constantly attack them.
As a half French, half Scottish-German Mexican, I don't really think I have a race.. but you can call me by my name, that'd be ok