Oscar considered this. It always offended him to hear his fellow Americans discussing the vagaries of "white people." There was simply no such thing as "white people." That stereotype was an artificial construct, like the ridiculous term "Hispanic." In all the rest of the world, a Peruvian was a Peruvian and a Brazilian was a Brazilian—it was only in America that people somehow became this multilingual, multinational entity called a "Hispanic." Oscar himself passed for a "Hispanic" most of the time, though his own ethnic background was best described as "Not of Human Origin."