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**amelveEnromma** · 06-26-2010, 06:44 AM

Well I don't have to look at all of the pictures to admit that the laymen (american) would call those of "highly visible" African admixture black, in contrast to those of very "diluted," yet slightly visible admixture (to my eyes) latino or mixed. Of course, this is based on first glance. The language and last name may (and probably will) change certain eye-balled notions of ethnicity.

Of course, I can say that the average person I've met views "hispanic" as a true "race", for some reason.

That's what I gather, but a helluva generalization there.

LOL, I remember telling my Albanian American friend who played the female character in the movie Avatar (Zoe Saldena). I mentioned she was Dominican, he proceeded to look up her picture and told me she looked black. "Looked" being the keyword: he didn't say she was black. I reckon it might've been different if he saw her before I told him her nationality.

06-26-2010, 06:44 AM	#9
amelveEnromma Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	Well I don't have to look at all of the pictures to admit that the laymen (american) would call those of "highly visible" African admixture black, in contrast to those of very "diluted," yet slightly visible admixture (to my eyes) latino or mixed. Of course, this is based on first glance. The language and last name may (and probably will) change certain eye-balled notions of ethnicity. Of course, I can say that the average person I've met views "hispanic" as a true "race", for some reason. That's what I gather, but a helluva generalization there. LOL, I remember telling my Albanian American friend who played the female character in the movie Avatar (Zoe Saldena). I mentioned she was Dominican, he proceeded to look up her picture and told me she looked black. "Looked" being the keyword: he didn't say she was black. I reckon it might've been different if he saw her before I told him her nationality.
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