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Originally Posted by eschaton
AFAIK that's not true. White Cubans come out as a lot whiter than other Latin Americans (even Argentines) but they're still around 10% black by ancestry according to modern DNA testing.
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I get that Latin America is much "darker" than Italy, even among "whites", but I'm not talking Latin American whites and Italy, but rather upper-class Hispanics in Miami compared to Italians and Jews in the Northeast.
I don't think many upper-class Miamians (plenty of whom are naturally blonde/blue eyed) have significant amounts of black or native American blood. Northeast Corridor Italians overwhelmingly hail from Southern Italy, where there's African DNA.
If you go to a school or shopping center in, say suburban Coral Gables (which will be like 95% Hispanic) I don't think people are notably "darker" than in, say, Massapequa, LI (which is heavily Jewish and Italian).
The Cuban exodus to South Florida was overwhelmingly elites, and elites in Latin America tend to be very white (my wife, who is Mexican, and of upper class background, has a blond hair/blue-eyed dad, and her yearbook photos of her high school look whiter than in my Midwest high school).