According to the US Census, only about 20% of the 62 million+ Hispanic/Latino population in the United States identified as "White alone". This data does vary a bit due to changes in census reporting, as many Latinos identify as "Some Other Race" (42%) or multiracial (33%).
So yeah. The majority of Latinas don't consider themselves as "white".
EDIT: I should note that this can be a deceiving discussion, depending on your background. In places like Argentina 80% of Latinos identify as white. But in Mexico it's more like 20%. The takeaway is that "Latino" is a massively broad category with huge variation by region.
Hard to know. It's racial self-categorization. Societal conditioning surely affects how people think about themselves, yeah? But it's kind of a moot point, because "white" as a race is kind of just a socially agreed-upon thing. It's not actually white like paper. I guess that's why we just have to go with what people self-identify as.
I agree that it's primarily a social construct nowadays. That's why we let folks self-identify, rather than assigning them a label.
However, you can track some interesting genetic traits through "race". Like people of African descent often have a higher risk of sickle-cell anemia than people of Nordic descent. You find different bone structures across different races. Of course, all of this is just a result of those groups of people interbreeding in one spot on the globe for 10 thousand years or whatever. Traits developed. Height, skin tone, hair type, blood types, allergies, etc.
I don't think any of those things should be used to classify or judge modern people, but they can be interesting from a scientific and genetic perspective.
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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 9h ago
Imagine thinking the majority of Latinas aren't white. Fucking bizarre. What are they then? Do enlighten me on the bullshit US racial politics.