Are Spaniards white people

The kingdom of spain was one of the first melting pots in history . Spaniards are a mix of different cultures . Germanic , Celtic , Roman , Iberian , North African , gypsy and jewish . Let’s not forget the basque which are native indigenous europeans. Due to this Spaniards come from different colours. Spain is still welcoming different cultures stirring more this cultural pot . Due to it‘s high human development index ( spain is a developed country) Spain has recently welcomed migrants from ukraine, the uk, romania, North Africa and ‘ Latin America ‘ . But before this migration Spain was already quite tdiverse . ignoring important details we could say that before this migration there were white Spaniards and ‘Mediterranean‘ Spaniards who tend to have gypsy , North African, Sephardic Jewish ancestry or they just have tanned Their skin a lot making it look tawny or quite dark . nevertheless historically even these Mediterranean Spaniar were classified as Caucasoid . But since race is sociological construct these swarthy Spaniards have been deemed inferior . Australia barred their entry to the country but they allowed white or ‘ European ‘ Spaniards to enter the country this also occurred with other mediterranean nations such as portugal , Italy and Greece . so basically there are spaniards with ‘proper ‘ European characteristics . Aka people who in America and australia would be considered white if you look at them with one stare now let’s delve deeper into the cultural definition some people confuse Latino and Hispanic there‘s a huge debate about what Latino means some people say that you’re immediately Latino if you speak a Romance language e.g Italian . others say that Latino means to be from Latin America . Hispanic refers to someone who speaks Spanish as a first language so someone from Equatorial Guinea ( Africa ) is Hispanic but not Latino . According to this perspective . That’s why this ‘theory ‘ classify Spaniards as Hispanics . This theory acknowledges that people from Latino and Hispanic countries can come in different colours so we could have a Spaniard girl who would be hispanic and racially white , black etc . And we could have a chilean guy who would be Latino and racially white , black , brown ( mestizo) ( stereotypically Latino ) etc do you see the pattern ? Nowadays Latino and Hispanic is used more culturally than racially and sometimes in a linguistic way but but the problem with this theory is that it erases cultural and linguistic diversities of these countries like I’ve said before Spain is a melting pot different regions speak different languages than Spanish as their first tongue eg the basque this they wouldn’t be Hispanic . A native South American guy from peru who speaks qechua as his first tongue wouldn’t be Hispanic . they also have different cultures that differ from the Hispanic or Latino one summing up the categories Hispanic and Latino erases the diversity of these countries assuming that everyone speaks Spanish as their first language and the assume the whole population shares a single culture erasing the stories of migrants who settled those territories and have contributed greatly to shaping the culture of each country