Mestizo meaning Spaniard and Azteca or other indigenous ancestry of course. It really bothers me my girlfriends brother is like this (she’s latina from Cuba). Plays up the Spaniard and Aztec part of his heritage and denigrates blacks and Asians.
Yes he looks like a 4chan user
30-60s that drew inspiration from European fascists
Not really, Blanqueamiento, Branqueamento or Whitening existed since the 1860s. There was a great belief that free Afro-descendants would outnumber the Euro-descendant and mestizo/pardo population, so there was the implementation in some countries like Brazil and Paraguay, that the child of an Afro-Latino/Native with white/mestizo would be to be “purer”, as the “bad” genes would end up being destroyed by the “superior” genes.
It’s very dumb and racist, but at the time it was created to be contrary to Europe and North America’s idea of segregation and banning interracial marriage. I think José Vasconcelos Calderón wrote a book about the ideal race that was a mixture of all “races”, it was progressive for the time but it’s still wrong because race is just shit invented to separate us.
Hell, you could argue it owes its origins to ideas generated in the first iteration of the Caste system during the days of the Spanish Empire.
It’s very dumb and racist, but at the time it was created to be contrary to Europe and North America’s idea of segregation and banning interracial marriage.
There were some exceptions in the Anglosphere and Europe where a similar idea of “mixing out” the supposedly inferior race had some traction, like with aboriginals in Australia and natives in some parts of French Africa.