How do Latin Americans look

Originally posted by pinguin Originally posted by SearchAndDestroy I went out for a couple beers last night a Chilean girl. She is pretty proud of being Hispanic, but her skin is more fair then mine, granted I've been working in the sun lately. She also has green eyes. Going by what pinguin is saying, you wouldn't know she was Hispanic, but she seems to like to make it clear when you talk to her lol. Curious. If you are just a bit darker than average Chileans, you would be called "negro" down here or in Argentina ... No kidding.

I could be wrong, but I think she might be more fair then most Chileans, I don't know for sure though. I've also been working in the sun, so I'm darker then usual. But if I saw her on the street, I wouldn't have guessed she was Hispanic is what I was getting at.

Originally posted by lirelou Hugo, I studied Mexican history in university, live for five years in Texas (El Paso, and near Austin), used to own property outside McAllen, and was posted to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City for two and a half years.

And you just joined! Welcome to AE. The main person interested in Mexico here is Mixcoatl, followed by a few others, with me included. Many of the most interesting conversations about Mexico happened in the sidelines though But with you around, maybe we can start having them here again.

Originally posted by Jams ...  I'm sure you know that better than I do. I don't know what is most common.   Is this Italian any different looking than the Mexican newswoman?   Maybe a bit in the details, but it doesn't stand out, imho.

Sorry, that was "Asian Roles in New Spain. THe excerpts are in Far Outliers courtesy of the latest issue of Journal of World History (on Project MUSE), taken from an article is by Edward R. Slack Jr. on “The Chinos in New Spain: A Corrective Lens for a Distorted Image.”  One Filipina, the "China Poblana", gave Mexico it's national dress.

In many parts of the world, regarding different disputes about land and other issues people are turning to DNA to try to find out their ancestry and "racial" belonging.  In the US this is for example the case in an ongoing dispute between American natives (Amerindians) and Black American Natives (who the Amerindians calls Freedmen). The dispute concerns the Black Natives right to be a part of Amerindian communities and thus being able to share different kinds of compensation and grants from the state.

When I was in Mazatlan, Mexico I really saw quite diversity from really faired skinned people to others with a very dark complexion. Some of the Mexicans were lighter skinned than me. I remember meeting a really cute Mexican female who was half German and she had blonde hair blue eyes. She really looked as out of place there as a orange next to an onion. I met people directly from Spain and even a few black Mexicans. The Indians from the mountain villages were small and had a very dark complexion and sort of reminded of the gypsies in Turkey with the colorful dresses the women wore. Sadly, they were out begging for money.   I think Mexico is as diverse as the USA but I have not been to any other Latin American country. The markets was the best place to see all the diversity in the people there and I loved those inside markets sort of like a farmer’s market. I would love to go to Argentina or Chile someday but Alaska is tops on my list. Like Greek/Turkiye I saw a lot of stray cats and dogs in Mexico but great idea because it keeps the mice/rats down.

My Mexican friend Moses said he knew a recent Greek immigrant in Mexico so people come from all over to live there and his mother was half Mexican and half Chinese.   I hear Brazil has the largest ethnic Japanese population outside of japan.

Edited by eaglecap - 15-May-2009 at 20:19

Originally posted by Carcharodon In many parts of the world, regarding different disputes about land and other issues people are turning to DNA to try to find out their ancestry and "racial" belonging.  In the US this is for example the case in an ongoing dispute between American natives (Amerindians) and Black American Natives (who the Amerindians calls Freedmen). The dispute concerns the Black Natives right to be a part of Amerindian communities and thus being able to share different kinds of compensation and grants from the state.   It´s a rather complicated story with threads a couple of hundred years back:

As a Chilean, that is used to another reality, this "romantic" love between blacks and indians as it is shown in the U.S. it doesn't make sense to me. At least in this part of the world, blacks were used as the executioners and tortures of Amerindians by the Spaniards, so when natives captured one of them they certainly had a worst punishment than theirs masters.

With respect to "addoptions", at least in my opinions, some mixed groups have the rights to claims amerindian ancestry. That's true for many meti groups, where mixtures are european and amerindian, but also for some sambo groups, where the mixture is between amerindians and blacks. In the last case I include sambos like the Caribs and other groups in the tropicals part of the Americas.

Edited by pinguin - 15-May-2009 at 22:12

The difference, perhaps, was in the way Europeans viewed both group. Spaniards treated better Indians than blacks. Americans discriminated both groups the same way. So, it is logical they made alliances.

If one wants to read more about the Black Seminoles and their ties to the Amerindian Seminoles one can check out this interesting site: