Why do Americans do this? If you're white, you're white. What's even more ridiculous is that Arabs and North Africans are considered equivalent to Anglo-Americans for statistical purposes, yet a Mexican with not a single drop of indio blood isn't.
>The United States Census Bureau defines white people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa." Like all official U.S. racial categories, "White" has a "not Hispanic or Latino" and a "Hispanic or Latino" component, the latter consisting mostly of White Mexican Americans and White Cuban Americans.
There's no such thing as a "white" so who cares. If brown people want to larp as white, so be it. We should start to look at why they want to be white through. I'm sure it has nothing to do with institutional racism and eurocentric beauty standards
