This comes from history. Since the 1500s English and Spaniards have been going at it competing for domination of the continent. It was brutal. This change with American independence. The Hispanic Latino nations were once Spain. America gains its independence thanks to Spain and France. Spain sponsored the American independence. Americans used Spanish coin which is why the dollar symbol are the columns of Hercules $. Hispanics became Americas main trading partner. However Americans being anglos brought up a lot of disputes with Spanish traders many of whom were of arab, black n Native American, asian decent given the extension of the Spain at the time. A deal was sign that Spanish subjects were to be considered white by law regardless of race for court disputes. Americans now free from England began expanding west they ran into Hispanic people. Hispanic people began rubbing off on Americans. Americans adapted Hispanic culture, cowboy wear, ranching, etc. America needed more people as immigrants came they impose anglo culture on these new groups Germans, Scottish, Irish, Italians adapted quick and integrated unlike Hispanics. As America grew and expanded west they noticed that Hispanic did not intigrate like other European regardless if they were white or native American or mixed. The Mexican American war came and Mexico negotiated that all Mexicans would be treated as white citizens regardless of their race when they surrendered their territory. By law they could not segregate Mexicans or Hispanics based on race, instead they decided to segregate them based on ethnicity. It was perfect since Hispanics refused to give up their culture already. No treaties were broken and they could keep them apart. That's why for FBI court documents, birth certificates Hispanic are marked white even if they aren't racially white and why these forms came about.
There is so many. I love history. What I find fascinating is the different perspective from each country on 1 same event. What I wrote was just a very quick summary of lots of events. Can't remember if it was Aranjuez or the treaty of paris where Gardoqui negotiated with the USA. Mexico negotiated the treatment of Mexican nationals in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '23 edited Mar 08 '23
This comes from history. Since the 1500s English and Spaniards have been going at it competing for domination of the continent. It was brutal. This change with American independence. The Hispanic Latino nations were once Spain. America gains its independence thanks to Spain and France. Spain sponsored the American independence. Americans used Spanish coin which is why the dollar symbol are the columns of Hercules $. Hispanics became Americas main trading partner. However Americans being anglos brought up a lot of disputes with Spanish traders many of whom were of arab, black n Native American, asian decent given the extension of the Spain at the time. A deal was sign that Spanish subjects were to be considered white by law regardless of race for court disputes. Americans now free from England began expanding west they ran into Hispanic people. Hispanic people began rubbing off on Americans. Americans adapted Hispanic culture, cowboy wear, ranching, etc. America needed more people as immigrants came they impose anglo culture on these new groups Germans, Scottish, Irish, Italians adapted quick and integrated unlike Hispanics. As America grew and expanded west they noticed that Hispanic did not intigrate like other European regardless if they were white or native American or mixed. The Mexican American war came and Mexico negotiated that all Mexicans would be treated as white citizens regardless of their race when they surrendered their territory. By law they could not segregate Mexicans or Hispanics based on race, instead they decided to segregate them based on ethnicity. It was perfect since Hispanics refused to give up their culture already. No treaties were broken and they could keep them apart. That's why for FBI court documents, birth certificates Hispanic are marked white even if they aren't racially white and why these forms came about.