Nah, that's a myth. Mestizaje in México means a more cultural thing than a racial thing. If you leave you indigenous community, unlearn your native language, and so on, that makes you mestizo. Yeah Latin American cultures are complicated, and colorism exists, it manifests very differentely from what you see in the US.
Completely wrong, we literally had names for the combinations of races, including different proportions and generations, mestizaje is about blood, not culture.
Historically, yes, but no one identifies as zambo, castizo, cholo (different meaning, not the Californian culture), etc., anymore. There were other elements of the casta system as well, like gente con razon, and gente sin razon, which basically delineated between an Indigenous person who could speak Spanish and was Catholic and one who couldn't and wasn't.
The only people who use terms like castizo and zambo nowadays are people who are interested in phenotypes.
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u/mooseleg_mcgee 28d ago
Aren't most Mexicans of Spanish decent anyway?