South America has a ton of range anyway. In Colombia I've seen straight up black people on the coast in Cartagena and then blonde hair/blue eyed people in the capital. Central Americans, especially the lower class with less European roots, have that native Central American look that's so stereotypical.
You beat to me it. I was going to add some of that.
There is a lot of racism, or more like eliteism, within Latin/Hispanic culture. You can tell because of how you get treated when you go these countries when you have light features. Whiteness is equated with beauty and wealth. All the Spanish television is incredibly white, with European features. Now obviously there was mixing with Moors during their time, but there's more or less 3 classifications of the spanish speaking world. White(from Spain, or spain mixed with some other European), Black, Mestizo. Mestizos are the looking Indigenous people .
The blacks in the culture were slaves brought over and then eventually emancipated. There is looking down your nose upon black people in a classism sense there, but there was much less the overt type of segregation in education, public facilities etc and stuff you saw here.
South America has large settlements of Europeans that weren't from Spain/Portugal and came a bit later. Venezuela and Brazil had tons of Germans. Argentina is Insecure Italy, with a small minority of mestizo thrown in. Cuba is unique because all the native population was wiped out by Columbus and friends.
However, to circle back to the description, Latin people always love to talk about their roots. It's something we make fun of each other with too. Clearly Fen is sensitive about it.
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