Assertion: mestizo | /r/HasProperty | white
Facets:
value: given to society's eyes
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Mestizo is people with indian and white blood in them , mestizo has a variety of looks and can be white.
text: Nonetheless, contemporary sociologists and historians agree that, given that the concept of "race" has a psychological foundation rather than a biological one and to society's eyes a Mestizo with a high percentage of European ancestry is considered "white" and a Mestizo with a high percentage of Indigenous ancestry is considered "Indian", a person that identifies with a given ethnic group should be allowed to, even if biologically he doesn't completely belong to that group.
text: Guayasamín, born from an Indian father and a mestiza mother, symbolizes according to himself, the struggle of this kind of ambiguity, which is not fully accepted; the mestizo, who is neither white nor Indian.
text: thus technically a Mestizo with a percentage of Indigenous ancestry that was low enough to not affect his or her primarily European phenotype was considered to be white.
text: Nonetheless, contemporary sociologists and historians agree that, given that the concept of "race" has a psychological foundation rather than a biological one and to society's eyes a Mestizo with a high percentage of European ancestry is considered "white" and a Mestizo with a high percentage of Indigenous ancestry is considered "Indian", a person that identifies with a given ethnic group should be allowed to, even if biologically it doesn't completely belong to that group.