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Posted by DJ_scratch_N_sniff, Mon Aug-07-00 07:04 PM
Hispanic is not a racial category. Your definition of race is not fitting if it includes Hispanic as a race. Hispanic means that a person is from a Spanish-speaking culture. Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Dom. Rep., Peru, Venezuela...

You've just included "racial" whites, blacks, mulattos, mestizos, Amerindians, Indians, Asians, (more?) all as one race based on a similar colonial history. Hispanic doesn't fit *my* definition of race. If it fits yours, we gotta talk.