re: Did you know that Mexico is majority white?

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I need to see a picture of what the average "white" Mexican looks like

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There are photos in the link in OP as well.

Your assertion is nonsense. The fact is that the vast majority of Mexicans have ancestry that is a mix of indigenous and European (mestizo). I have traveled extensively in Mexico and am fluent in Spanish. My best friend’s family is from Mexico City and San Luis, and I have intereacted with his family in both places.

I would estimate that no more than 10-15% of Mexicans have “pure” European ancestry. The higher figues that you cite result from including persons with less European ancestry.

Cool. Still don't want them here.

Yeah I read that portion, but the mestizo distinction exists outside its complicated history in Mexico (or indeed in all of South America). That's what I was referring to, not the governments use of the term to create Mexican identity. Autosomal studies of the lower socioeconomic groups in Mexico have put the admixture percentages at something like 55% Indigenous, 35% European and 10% other, meaning a genetic basis for a distinction could be made, though I think the "mestizo" term is used in a pejorative sense in Mexico.

This is an entirely an aside from the point of the thread. My apologies.

What I do find interesting is that Mexico's population of indigenous peoples make up 35% of the total indigenous population throughout the Americas. It fits in with Spanish colonial history (as Spain would not have been able to colonize Mexico specifically without major help from indigenous groups) but its surprising to see how much of that population remains.

47 percent claim to be white. Another 30 percent claim to be Mestizo.

I said the majority is white. Are you claiming there isn’t at least 4 percent white among the Mestizo? This doesn’t even include the Arab population, who are also white.

I never mentioned anything about immigration in the OP.

It came up later in the context of Mexican apartheid, but is not the point of my post.

You make a lot of assumptions and interject comments and statements that are not part of my post.

Whoever it is saying those things, I suggest you take it up with them.

Former Spanish colonies are like that. Spain is in Europe. Conservatives are just figuring this out? Wow.

But you were discussing the charges of racism towards Mexicans and racially-based dislike of Mexicans is relevant.

It may be true that some Mexicans are "white", but that doesn't mean that dislike of Mexicans can never be of a racial nature, as you are positing when you say "So, the next time any criticism of our neighbors to the South results in charges of racism ... now you know."