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Originally Posted by JManc
Hispanic is a very vague ethnic group (A Mexican has little in common with a Chilean) and "white" has become synonymous with "Anglo" which is incorrect because not all white Americans are of Anglo-Saxon origin. Polish, Italian and Greeks are all lumped in this category. Asian-Americans includes everyone from Iran, India to China. It's all bullshit.
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I don't know who started the "Anglo = white" business (must have been back in the day), but I've heard that back in the day, in places like New Mexico, Anglo was just used to describe English speaking American settlers (as opposed to Spanish settlers).
Somehow language became conflated with race somewhere along the line.