Is my daughter 'hispanic'

investwisely
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:51:07 +0000

Doesn’t my daughers birth cirtificate have more to do with ‘race’ than ‘ethnicity’? I’ve always thought you could be of any race and still be considered hispanic. Good example would be Argentina, where individuals of European discent have lived for decades. Same can be said of Brazil. To further complicate, my wife is 100% asian (Chinese) in terms of ‘race’. Her parents were both born in Shanghi and fled to Brazil in 1953 where they’ve lived for almost 60 yrs. In terms of race, my daughter is 50% asian (chinese), 50% caucasion (multiple enthnic mix). We have always told her to with hold stating a race (if allowed) or check the box ‘other/mix/interracial’.