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would have significantly decreased in the race/ethnicity census of the vast majority of Latin American countries?

Since the One-Drop Rule is usually unheard of in not only Latin America but all over the world (outside of the US) as far as I know, it makes me wonder if the One-Drop rule would completely change up Latin America's racial demographics reported on the census. From what I've heard, Brazil and Puerto Rico have had their own version of the "One-Drop Rule". However, it's nothing like the US's One-Drop Rule system because Brazil and Puerto Rico's version of the One-Drop Rule is complete opposite. For instance, in Puerto Rico, even if someone (who is more predominantly White European or close to "White-passing") has a one grandparent or one grandparents (couple) that are racially and legally white while the rest of their family members are either Black, Indigenous or racially mixed, they can still legally consider themselves "White". In the US, even though there's technically no law against someone falsely identifying a certain race and ethnicity, this still would have never flied socially in the US.

Not to mention, a lot of the "White" Latinos I've seen in a few countries or Islands like Puerto Rico, Brazil and Mexico, would have never socially passed for "White" in the United States judging by certain skull shapes and facial structures, because it's far more than just having white/pale skin pigmentation for racial and ethnic whiteness in the US).