JimBowie1958
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http://www.nature.com/jhg/journal/v57/n9/full/jhg201267a.html
Racist concepts and definitions are not based on science, but on the most visible characteristics of skin hue and culture.
In fact it is IMO 90% a cultural concept that is merely re-enforced with easy visual categorization.
Mexicans are about two thirds white, especially Northern Mexico and they share a close cultural heritage with the US southwestern region.
To call Hispanics anything other than white is simply politics derived from identity ideologies and special interest groups desiring minority status under our current laws.
Admixture and population structure in Mexican-Mestizos based on paternal lineages
In the nonrecombining region of the Y-chromosome, there are single-nucleotide polymorphisms (Y-SNPs) that establish haplogroups with particular geographical origins (European, African, Native American, etc.). The complex process of admixture that gave rise to the majority of the current Mexican population (~93%), known as Mestizos, can be examined with Y-SNPs to establish their paternal ancestry and population structure. We analyzed 18 Y-SNPs in 659 individuals from 10 Mexican-Mestizo populations from different regions of the country. In the total population sample, paternal ancestry was predominately European (64.9%), followed by Native American (30.8%) and African (4.2%). However, the European ancestry was prevalent in the north and west (66.7–95%) and, conversely, Native American ancestry increased in the center and southeast (37–50%), whereas the African ancestry was low and relatively homogeneous (0–8.8%). Although this paternal landscape concurs with previous studies based on genome-wide SNPs and autosomal short tandem repeats (STRs), this pattern contrasts with the maternal ancestry, mainly of Native American origin, based on maternal lineages haplogroups.
Racist concepts and definitions are not based on science, but on the most visible characteristics of skin hue and culture.
In fact it is IMO 90% a cultural concept that is merely re-enforced with easy visual categorization.
Mexicans are about two thirds white, especially Northern Mexico and they share a close cultural heritage with the US southwestern region.
To call Hispanics anything other than white is simply politics derived from identity ideologies and special interest groups desiring minority status under our current laws.
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