Is it true that almost everyone can pass in Latin America?

[Maguzanci]

I don't think the following populations can in any places of the whole region.

This is because their phenotypes are too "ethnic" and unique which makes it almost impossible to duplicate such looks from a mixture of Euro, Amerindian and SSA (West-Central African).

What do Latin American members think? These are what these groups look like on average I think.

Picture of the following groups so those who are not familiar with their looks can tell better.

Papuans:



Australian Aborigines:





Island Melanesians:





Andamanese Islanders:




Khoisan Bushmen:




Nilotes/Nilosaharan tribes:





Cushites:





Veddoid-type tribes of Southern India:




Austroasiatic tribes of Central-Eastern India:




Vast majority of Central Asians (paradoxically cause they are composed of East Eurasian and West Eurasian ancestries just like Mestizos/Indomestizos but different types of these East/West Eurasian admix)

(ignoring a few obvious Russians in the pic)

Majority of Siberian tribes (very ironic cause they are genetically the closest Old World relatives to Amerindians)




I do not think these above groups can pass/blend anywhere in Latin America. Their look are just too unique. Thoughts?

[Maguzanci]

Opinions? Are the pics too distracting you away from the question? If so I can get rid if you already know what each group looks like.

[Tooting Carmen]

Central Asians and some Siberians can often pass, as can Cushites at times. Otherwise I broadly agree.

[Maguzanci]

Central Asians and some Siberians can often pass, as can Cushites at times. Otherwise I broadly agree.

Which types of Central Asians? And I am guessing they pass as Mestizos/Indomestizos/Amerindians? Cause I thought they usually look too Turanid and Aralid to pass. Can you post examples of Cushites that can pass?

Does that mean, the other groups you cannot see them passing at all?

[Catarinense1998]

To be honest, some groups as papuans, melanesians, mongols, siberian people, some central asians, australoids, would be seem as weird here (I'm talking only about Brazil, because this is the only country that I have living). These dark skinned south asians would be seem as "blacks" or "mulattoes", since they have straight hair. The eternal trio - european (mainly southern euro), african (SSA) and indigenous american (average people on streets don't know how to tell apart an aymara and a guaraní) - is the best clue to find out your answers. Any people that resemble one of those three groups can pass. The most outsider groups - on my opinion - would be any red haired people or those light skinned people with mongoloid traits from Siberia. Papuans and Australoids in the next tier. It's just my opinion though.

[gadele]

I am from from Argentina and I have been to Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru and Mexico. I have been normally in big cities. I mean I never went to isolated places where original Amerindian might live so with this context I would say only 10% is recognizable by me. In regard of the color skin of the Siberian person keep in mind that skin color changes in thousands of years depending on UV rays. In Latin america we have really high UV ray levels. The darker the skin the more protected from UV rays.

[lonewolfcypriot]

I think these groups would stick out the most in Latin America:

1. Pure East Asians(Chinese/Korean/Japanese)
2. Pure Northern Europeans
3. Pure East Africans(Horn Africans)
4. Pure Australoids
5. Central Asian and Siberian Groups

[Tooting Carmen]

I think these groups would stick out the most in Latin America:

1. Pure East Asians(Chinese/Korean/Japanese)
2. Pure Northern Europeans
3. Pure East Africans(Horn Africans)
4. Pure Australoids
5. Central Asian and Siberian Groups

Yeah more-or-less.

[Celestia]

With as diverse as South America is I’m unsure of who wouldn’t be able to pass.

[Tooting Carmen]

With as diverse as South America is I’m unsure of who wouldn’t be able to pass.

My English father for a start (well maybe in Argentina and Southern Brazil, but even then not very easily).