I have a friend of mine who is dating this Mexican girl but tbh, you can barely tell she's Mexican. I actually thought she was Eastern European or Italian or something when I first met her before I knew her ethnicity.
Obviously, the Spanish colonized Mexico for centuries so I imagine there's a fair bit of Mexicans that have "Spanish roots". Do you guys think marrying and having kids with a light skinned Latina is better than not having kids at all?
Edit - and that's just the light skinned Mexicans. Have you guys seen light skinned Argentinians? They look more "White" than a lot of Europeans.
Do you know who colonized south and Central America? Europeans. There are, shockingly, Europeans there. There's more ethnically European people in those countries (minus South Central and Northern South America) than are reflected in their demographics in the US. As is typical, it's usually the non white ones that try to get gibs from uncle Sam, the white ones usually stay behind. Except tejanos, but that's a different story
So Americans have a view of mexicans being brown chinky looking people because the brown chinky looking ones are the ones that come to America. In spain it's the exact opposite, usually the Latinos that come here are moderately affluent foreign exchange students of Spanish and other broadly European backgrounds. There are a good amount of Latinos here, but they aren't brown. When a spaniard thinks of a brown person they think of a gypsy, moroccan, or poojeet, the only way you can usually tell a spaniard and a Latino apart is by the accent they speak in (ceceo/seseo)