70 248 172 10 Anglo Americans are not racially deranged as you put it Italians are accepted as white in the United States as are Greeks Jews Spaniards etc As a U S citizen I can say that there are really TWO or more groups of whites in the U S The largest group is the so called Anglo Americans which includes English Irish Scottish and other north western European groups There is also the ethnic whites who include Jews Greeks Slavs Hispanics etc The fundamental difference is that by and large Anglos have been here much longer and have fewer ties to their mother countries Ethnic whites on the other hand tend to have more exotic names and traditions and have more ties to their ancestral countries still speak the language celebrate the holidays etc Most Americans have a hard time understanding the concept of white in Latin America because our familiarily lies primarily with Mexico which has a mestizo majority Also most Latin Americans in the United States identify themselves as Latinos and not as whites even though they may be However regardless of what Americans consider white to be people of significant European or other Mediterrenean area descent in Latin America would be white by anyone s standard