cortez wrote:
i'll bet you're not white when you're applying for a loan.
Yes I check the Hispanic box, because the other one usually says White (non-Hispanic). I am pure European descended (half Spanish/Dutch), unlike most Mexicans or other "Hispanics" who really aren't Hispanic at all but mostly indigenous or a mix with European peoples. Call them Latino or whatever you like, when someone thinks "Hispanic" in America they think some swarthy person with a Mexican accent and when someone looks at me and says "You're not Hispanic, you're white" I want to bust their ignorant jaw. My older brother has a darker complexion so he doesn't get as much shit, but he still looks European and nothing like the Mestizos or whatever they call themselves.