Latinos putting "Native American" on college admission forms? MIT?

aunt_bea
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 23:42:42 +0000

@melvin123, I didn’t mention anything about color. Yes there currently are latin americans (ex: Paraguay/Uruguay, Mex DF) who are caucasian). My Mother’s family in Mexico were originally from Spain (caucasian) 4 centuries ago. They continued to have blue eyes and light skin, but historically, over the past 400 years they “mixed” with Native Americans and were “Mexican”, given their geographical heritage. if you were on the continent, for a couple of centuries, chances are you “mixed” with the locals.

My children also"look" caucasian, but I happen to know their ancestral history on both sides of the family. They have a Native American history, but they don’t claim it because they haven’t lived in that tribal culture; we don’t have tribal affiliation but we do have the auditory stories and the holistic healing practices.