RE: Are Spaniards white?
October 11, 2015 at 8:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2015 at 8:48 pm by Regina.)
In the UK;
Of any kind of European ancestry = white. Because I'm British, that tends to be how I think too, so yes, Spanish are white.
Depends on what you consider white though. "white" is a human construct and it's flimsy, like where on the world map do you draw a line, and say "ok on this side on the line the indigenous people are white, but on this side they're not"? It's a gradient.
I've heard of Irish people not being considered white on one hand, and North Africans and Arabs being considered white on the other (obviously not at the same time). It's subjective. I'm "mixed race" if you don't consider Southern Europeans white (ancestrally, I'm half Maltese, half mutt of Central/Northern European ancestries), yet I don't look out of place one bit in the UK with my blue eyes and pale skin. The mind boggles.
Of any kind of European ancestry = white. Because I'm British, that tends to be how I think too, so yes, Spanish are white.
Depends on what you consider white though. "white" is a human construct and it's flimsy, like where on the world map do you draw a line, and say "ok on this side on the line the indigenous people are white, but on this side they're not"? It's a gradient.
I've heard of Irish people not being considered white on one hand, and North Africans and Arabs being considered white on the other (obviously not at the same time). It's subjective. I'm "mixed race" if you don't consider Southern Europeans white (ancestrally, I'm half Maltese, half mutt of Central/Northern European ancestries), yet I don't look out of place one bit in the UK with my blue eyes and pale skin. The mind boggles.
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