How do Latin Americans look

 

 

Yes ... several as a matter of fact.First 2 back in high school,1 America-born counselor who was very tall and dark and head janitor there.I thought both were Mexicans or Chicanos until I overheard my teacher referred them as " Spaniard " and she spoke to the janitor in Spanish.They did look European not mixed.

 

Most American-Whites do have little Amerindian admix,but they're undisputed predominately European.US's past racial segregation attributed to this result.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So if I understand you correctly you are saying these people do not look very different? That the lady in the first picture could just as well have been indigenous and the people in the second picture look like soap actors or newscasters?

 

It well may be. However, most Mexicans don't meet both conditions at the same time. The Mexicans that look Indigenous and are really Indigenous make a small minority in that country, and the point was if Mexican TV shows the realities of the majorities.

 

In any case, it could be that Mexican TV is like the Bill Cosby show. The time you see a pure "African" in that show, and not the common mulattoes that they select, it will be a time to celebrate  

 

Originally posted by Mixcoatl Of course Marcos doesn't look Mayan, because he is not a Maya. He's not even from Chiapas, but from Tamaulipas. AFAIK he has never even claimed he is indigenous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is so different from your point of view?

 

They have the same facial features, the same straight black hair, the same dark eyes, the same thin lips, the same rounded faces. Yes, indigenous country women are shorter and usually fatter as well. Besides, they are exposed all day long to the sun, so they are usually darker than city fellows, and (if you know about Amerindians), the color of skin vary dramatically between people heavily exposed to the sun and who aren't, in "races" other than nordics and blacks (people you guys are accustumed to see in North America and Europe) skin color is more constant.

 

So, what's the difference?

 

In Latin America we usually pay a lot more attention to facial features than simply skin color as you guys do elsewhere. We pay a lot of attention to the shape of the noses, because give us a lot more information about origins than other clues. The line of the hair is also an interesting clue (black ancestry has wide forefronts, caucasians in the middle and natives narrow and very particularly shaped hair.

 

With all these antecedents at hand, it is a lot easier to know the relation between people that just looking the degree of poverty in subjects, the cleaness, the tipical dresses, or the facial expresions (natives don't usually smile; they don't have a reason for doing so)