Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-19765459-20140726041654

"Latinos"/"Hispanics" are also technically a linguistic group, not a racial one. What a lot of people don't realize is that racism actually got worse after the Civil War, rather than better. Most actual Latin Americans are technically "Native Americans", although we tend not to treat people from south of the U.S. border as part of that category. But many, including Tyler Posey, are also mixed Caucasian and would actually have been considered "white" by all but the most racist standards. "I Love Lucy", the genre-defining sitcom, had a marriage between a Caucasian woman and a Latino man (both on the show and in real life) and it was not considered "interracial", even in the 1950's!

A lot of American "racial" categories are artificial, and political correctness hasn't helped. For example, North Africans such as Berbers, who have lived there throughout recorded history, would never be consider "African-Americans" if they lived here in the U.S. The term itself is therefore deceptive.

Quite a few Californian's have at least some Hispanic and/or Native American ancestry. Racial purity is largely a myth anyway. Scott's family may just be so many generations removed from their Mexican ancestry that they no longer retain any linguistic tell-tales such as an accent. I'm mostly Polish and only two generations removed from the "Old Country". Not only can I not pronounce those bizarre Slavic words, I can't even fake the accent!