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After all, across the Continent it is not uncommon to find people with completely different skintones and facial features from one another even within the same family (including mine). Yet according to Kratz, White Latin Americans tend to be much more endogamous than Europeans and White Americans, which is highly questionable because:
(1) The demographics, history and culture of Latin America viz-a-viz North America and Europe would make it nearly impossible to be so anyway. Even if it were really true that White Latin Americans are very ethnocentric - and for some it is indeed true - the point is that living in countries where Whites (not to be confused with lighter-skinned Mestizos, Triracials and Mulattoes) are very much a minority would mean that they would thus have a pretty limited range of partners to choose from. As evidence, look at East Asians in the US and Brazil - Japan, Korea and China are some of the most ethnocentric nations on the planet, yet in those two aforementioned countries (and probably others too) they marry out at an extraordinarily high rate.
(2) As I said, in any case many apparently 'White' Latin Americans have many darker-skinned people within their own families, which shows that there has been plenty of mixing throughout the centuries, however hidden or taboo it may have been at some point. In addition, many if not most Black and even Amerindian Latin Americans have some other racial admixture to them too.
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