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coyot posted...

The word Hispanic is a misnomer. Most Americans classified as Hispanic, are actually indigenous.

Most hispanics are of mixed ancestry, usually of indigenous and Spanish or Portuguese. I have a friend from El Salvador who has a plurality of indigenous ancestry but he looks like Jona Hill and has fair skin and green eyes. Some countries are more indigenous than others, like Guatemala, or some are more European than others, like Argentina. And than you have people of African, Asian, and so on ancestry. One of the top Smash players from Mexico comes from Italian immigrants who migrated there.

However the base of most Latin American's culture derives from the Iberian peninsula.