Why Are White Hispanics Not Considered White?

White is the only race that requires purity. Even if you're as white as Ted Cruz, you're still considered a Hispanic American.

It doesn't work that way for any other race. A mostly Hispanic person with some White is considered Hispanic. A mostly Black person with some White is considered Black. A mostly Asian person with some White is considered Asian.

Part of it is a scam to scare White people into thinking their race is losing their numbers when they aren't. It's just a fraction of a shade darker in color in the aggregate that can't even be noticed with the human eye.

But to many White Americans, it feels as if their race is being tainted.

https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf

White people are defined by the United States Census Bureau as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa (Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish)." Like all official U.S. racial categories, "White" has a "not Hispanic or Latino" and a "Hispanic or Latino" component, the latter consisting mostly of White Mexican Americans and White Cuban Americans.

They call it bifurcated ethnicity. Spaniards are uniquely placed firmly in both the Hispanic and white American ethnoracial categories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans

BECAUSE WHITE IS A COLOR(OR THE ABSENCE OF)...NOT A RACE OR ETHNIC GROUP.

White hispanic is a mixed thing.

My BIL's father is "white" and mother is Puerto Rican. My BIL is "white" as a ghost, has no Puerto Rican traits what so ever yet his sister does. You almost can't tell they are biological siblings. She would be considered Hispanic, he wouldn't.

It's a box to put someone in. I've met white Mexicans with money and they consider themselves above the brown people who cross the border.

Racism exists inside of many groups.

They like to call themselves European Mexicans or something.

They should abandon the vague term "ethnicity" as a means of classifying people and use actual ancestry instead. When I think of a white person I'm thinking of someone with North Western European ancestry for example. Everything else that gets thrown into the white ethnicity basket is actually mixed.

Because "Hispanic" means "one who speaks Spanish as their primary language", and/or has Spanish (meaning of Spain) as a primary component of their culture, i.e. their ethnicity. They designate "white" and "Hispanic" or "Non-Hispanic" to differentiate those who identify as Hispanic but who want the option (hopefully because it accurately describes them) as "white" (e.g. Spanish-speakers from Spain, or Latinos who consider themselves "white"), as opposed to those who don't. I get it, but the entire designation of "white" is in itself inaccurate and meaningless, consisting of a spectrum of genetic and cultural ancestry that is much too broad to have value.
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Because they only have about on average 73% White admixture. Hispanics in general have about 64% White admixture. That isn't a big difference. I personally would consider someone White if they are at least 80% White.