How racist are Mexicans towards Afro Mexicans and indigenous people?
Very racist. Disdain toward people with browner skin between Mexicans is common, and positive bias toward white skinned people is prevalent in most aspects of social life. In most cities, being whiter will play key role in being hired or not in a job. Many brush this up as classism, while is nothing but plain racism. Black people jokes are commonplace and referring to indigenous people as unruly, uncivilized, lazy, uneducated is not rare in urban centers.If a foreigner refers to Mexicans as a brown, it’s not uncommon that many Mexicans, as if taking offense, will bring up that someone in their family is European or will retort posting a photo of them featuring their whiter-than-average-Mexican skin, even though most commonly such ascendancy goes back several generations. In general and in many, there is a tendency to trying to excerpt distance from what is truly aboriginal or native. In Mexico, whiter commonly equals prettier.Furthermore, there are covert condescending —more akin to “positive” racism— attitudes toward native-blooded or full blooded natives who attain certain success. “Look, Roberto is Triqui (a tribe) yet he is now pursuing a Ph.D and he’s got a great job at the University” as if pointing out that being indigenous it’s an handicap… and maybe due the racism, it certainly can be.Summarizing, racism exists in Mexico, it embarrasses me as a Mexican. Contrary to what a many of my countrymen and countrywomen would argue, racism existing in the U.S. doesn’t make the Mexican racism any more tolerable. In fact, it can very well make us hypocrites , since Mexicans treating other Mexicans discriminatory based on their skin color or state of birth it’s not the exception, but most commonly the rule.
If a white American couple emigrated to Mexico, would their white English speaking children (all born in Mexico), be considered Hispanic and Latino?
No.Americans have always had a racial caste system, much less so now and less overt and less prevalent among the young, but still present. This is different from, as I understand it, countries like France and Britain where culture is a much stronger determinant of identity or what Americans refer to as socioeconomic status, or Brazil, were people have all kinds of names for appearances without racist overtones attached. In the US, though it shouldn’t, what people call race influences socioeconomic status and identity. Hispanics have always had their own form of duality as Americans, counted as “white” or European descendants in census taking, but not treated in the southwest historically as equal to “whites.” Mexicans are of Spanish and MesoAmerindian heritage, not thought of by Americans as white.The whole thing is stupid. I once met a Mexican woman with naturally blonde hair who said it was a curse. She said she must have a lot more Castillian in her family tree or something, but she said the most Spanish Mexicans did not accept her and the Mexican Native majority didn’t think she was Mexican enough.To answer your question, in an overly race conscious society, they would be called white.
How do Hispanic people feel when non-native Spanish speakers speak in Spanish to them?
If you look like you're making at least a minimal effort, we appreciate that you try to speak out language. Unlike other language where native speakers become very snobbish about their language (looking at you French), Spanish speakers tend to be very open regarding who speaks Spanish.Heck, even if you end up speaking English with the waiter at a restaurant, the fact that you at least tried to speak in whatever broken Spanish you learned is appreciated. This can make the difference between being thought of as a cultured well-traveled person or an obnoxious ignorant tourist.However, we still ask to be respectful with the language. If you learn basic Spanish and in the first day of your trip you speak butchered Spanish but expect or even demand to be treated like a local and get angry if you don't, or still act like an obnoxious stereotypical tourist (cue in British prawns), expect the actual locals to take advantage of you like flies in a honeypot; in these cases, a little humility goes a long way. Realize you’re the guest here, not the host, and that this isn’t always like back home.(Also, I don't even know how Americans are able to find any racist connotation in the question; I had to read a couple of answers to even notice how it could be taken as such. Hispanic merely means 'native Spanish speaker', so it's use here is correct. The fact that you associate it with dark-skinned Mexican immigrants is your problem, not the question���s or the asker’s.Like seriously, half of your answers are just you trying to 'correct the racism' like “you know there are white people in Latin America, right?” while not raising the possibility that the question might not even be racist, and you might be the one who is, given it was you who found it as such.)