A small percentage yes.

Well that would be wrong. There was a case years ago about a guy from Spain who had immigrated to the States and opened up a business. He had tried to use the Latino/Hispanic label to receive some sort of tax credit or something and was shot down by the courts, since they determined that he wasn’t from Latin America…

Or the English Speaking world ha.

Not much though. There is a mestizo population in the Philipines but small compared to the overall population. Most Philipines won’t have any European genetic markers if they were to do a 23andMe test. Interesringly many Philipines have American Native markers because the Viceroy of Mexico shipped a lot of native and…

What’s Latin blood? Anyway even though a colony of Spain there was not much immigration from Europe to the Philipines.

You seem to have a misunderstanding of what Latino means. It is a geographical/lingustic label. The Philipines are not part of the Americas. So not Latino. Also less than 3% speak Spanish, a very insignificant amount.

You can’t really compare the Americas with Europe. Europe is still very much racially homogenous, though yes culturally distinct. The Americas aren’t. I don’t know if Europeans see the Americas that way as that hasn’t been my experience with them. They’re a little more aware of the world at large than someone from the…

Well Brazilians are Latino in that they are a country in Latin America that speak a Romance language. Spaniards are not Latino since it’s as much a geographical discriptor as a linguistic one, and since Spain is a country in Europe they would not be considered Latino. These labels are basically bullshit put in place…

The Philippines aren't in Latin America and they speak Tagalog, not Spanish.

Eh the term Latin/Hispanic is a US centric label. I never understood the need to lump all people together based on a shared geographical and linguistic basis. The label doesn’t take into account the very different nationalities, ethnicities and races that occupy the “Latino" label...a label mind you that not many…

Sunday mass in front of 1.5 million people.

This is great. You are great.

I don’t see the problem, he’d look fine amongst the ethnic people of North Africa, the Berbers.

There isn’t a mestizo population in Cuba, there never was. Jajaja you have no idea. Dude Cubas population is over 60% white and that’s after the revolution. Do you question white Americans if they’re white if you don’t have access to their family tree?

And who do you think colonized Cuba? Iberians. You’ve already admitted that his other half isn’t Taino. Cuba was a very segregated island, which is why you have a very large Afro Cuban population and large Spanish population. Like dude you know so very little about Cuba. And here is someone who is Puerto Rican who has…

But Ted Cruz isn’t half white. His father is white. Are you really so obtuse to think that being white and Cuban are mutually exclusive? You really have no understanding of Cuba let alone Latin America. You're the one who believes one must assume that one has to be mixed for simply being from Latin America, that for…

Seriously that's ridiculous, everyone is mixed race until you have proof otherwise wow

So you'd rather assume someone is a person of color until you have their entire family tree and they've done a DNA test? I mean Brad Pitt, he's probably a POC, I haven't seen his 23andMe results!

The expulsion for sure played into it a bit. Andalucia was left with so few residents that the crown had to send people from Basque Country to repopulate the south. But the amount of Berbers and Arabs was only no more than 50,000 and they wouldn’t have been able to conquer the entire peninsula if the native Iberian…

It’s possible for sure. As when people talk about the 800 year rules of Islamic rule that’s only true of Granada/Andalucia, as they were expelled centuries earlier in the north. Andalucia actually had their own Romance language that had nothing to do with Castillian, Mozarabic. I don’t know much about it but I’m sure…