<p>So this has been haunting me as of lately. I'm not sure how I'd qualify myself racially. I was born in the U.S. and both my parents are U.S. naturalized citizens - but both were born in Brazil. Does this fall under the Hispanic category, or is it Caucasian? I don't believe Brazil classifies as a Hispanic country, we've no ties with the Spanish at all - we were colonized by the Portuguese.</p>
<p>So when filling out forms, what am I? Caucasian? Hispanic? Other? Please I'd like a definite answer, not someone's uneducated hunch :/. Thanks in advance =)</p>
<p>it depends on what ethnicity your parents are
like if they were white people born in brazil you're still considered white
a lot of brazilians are mixed, so maybe you should just put 'other'</p>
<p>Both my parents families are of Portuguese descent. When I put other, what should I fill in then? Or again, does it fall under Caucasian? Not like being a Caucasian male helps me at all with college applications :P</p>
<p>hm then i think youd be considered white
because i dont think brazil or portugal are considered hispanic countries
if you look hispanic then maybe you could get away with putting that down as your ethnicity and say that's what you thought you were</p>
<p>actually i think being a white male doesn't put you at a disadvantage for college
the people who have it the worst are asian females</p>
<p>I might just stick to Caucasian male in that case. It's what I had been doing so far, I really didn't think I classified as Hispanic, and I don't look Hispanic. Anyone else have opinions on the matter?</p>
<p>Hispanic dude.
Doesn't matter if you have light skin, I've been approached by a man with the whitest skin and piercing blue eyes that spoke impeccable spanish.
I have a big black friend that is from Panama.</p>
<p>yucca's post #12 is right. Brazilian is his nationality. Caucasian is his ethnicity. People from Portugal are not Hispanic, they are actually Caucasian. The U.S. Census Bureau describes a hispanic person as
If you notice, this definition does allow for people from Spanish-speaking South American countries. (Brazil is, in fact, a country in South America, not Latin America). But it is a Portuguese speaking country, so being from Brazil does not qualify you as Hispanic.</p>
<p>The Census Bureau defines a caucasian/white person as
Considering that Portugal is in Europe, and the Hispanic definition does not mention people from Portugal (even though they mention people from Spain) the OP would be caucasian.</p>
<p>Let me get this straight. He's of Portuguese descent and he's from Brazil, like many others...yet he's still white? Is he a first/second generation there?</p>
<p>Manny you are partially right. His parents are from Brazil, but he is from America and he is of Portuguese descent. But, he's still white. Even though Portuguese culture is very similar to Spanish culture in many ways, people of Portuguese descent are still considered caucasian. It's sort of like how people from Northern Africa are considered caucasian and people from the Middle East are also considered caucasian.</p>
<p>The real issue here is that our country should probably expand it's racial and ethnic categories so that they are not so confusing and broad.</p>
