The Spanish had a true caste system where Criollos, the Spanish born in America (even if their parents had been in Spain), were a lower caste than the Peninsulares, those born in Spain. Anyway, typically in Latin America everything can be blamed on the Spanish.TheReal_ND wrote:That's why we had to invent White Hispanic for our census. Mixed race in South America means part black and Hispanics hate blacks so they never identified as Hispanic.
Here's a simple chart:
Of course, the above doesn't represent just how detailed the Spanish caste system was. The following does open it more: