Do you think a lot Native Americans in the US who are not fully Native American, would have been classified as "Mestizos" if they were to live?

[Anonymous]

in a Latin American country, especially since there's no such thing as a "One-Drop" Rule in the vast majority of Latin America?

If you think about it, the majority of Native Americans/American Indians in the US aren't even fully Native American and have a significant White European ancestry yet still identify as "Native American"(Not that there's anything wrong with it or anything). In Latin America, people with only around 30-60ish percent American Indian or 30-60 percent are considered "Mestizos".

Just look at the two pictures of these young women (below). You man think they're from Mexico or from a Latin American country but they're actually US Americans of Half Native American, Half White ancestry.

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Edit: You *would* think they're from Mexico or a Latin American country...

[Anonymous]

I tried explaining this to my American friend and she got annoyed. Said I was saying that she isn't American. If she lives in America she's American

[LisaLisa89]

I think the positioning of the question mark was unfortunate. I was envisaging some kind of ethnic cleansing question until I carried on reading.

[dev765]

Yep definitely.