Why does race and class in Latin America matter so much? It really doesn't, except for the fact that race and class is essentially the same everywhere. Your race once only defined who your ancestors were, but it's come to determine where you stand socially and economically in the world.
White people as a racial group are the most prominent and usually of the highest class in any region. Latin America is a unique case because among these whites live many mixtures of races. All these races no matter what they're made up of are automatically inferior to whites because of their socioeconomic status. It's the same in every region. A determination of your race and class is really to see how close to white you are and where that places you in terms of influence.
Dissimilarly, in countries like Argentina the Indigenous population is very small but the classification is the same. It's even harder to move up socially or economically because there is no medium. There is hardly any mixture of the races, making the minority group smaller and smaller. Therefore most minorities stay minorities in terms of education and wealth.
tin America is a uniquely constructed region. Places like Mexico and Guatemala boast large Indian populations. These Indigenous populations have turned from a unique type of culture to the poverty of their countries. Indians in these countries struggle with the conflict of keeping their heritage or trading it to become mestizo. Mestizo being one step up from being Indian. Being mestizo affords opportunities that Indians may not have in t
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