It's funny. My last name is Weil. And yet I'm considered "hispanic."

Why? Well...let's see. My mother - surname Salazar was married to a
German guy named Weil.

She divorced him five years later....we left Germany for the USA. I
was raised - as a first-generation immigrant American - in a Spanish
speaking household (with bits of German and English thrown in).

I learned to speak Spanish. REAL Spanish, not this Spanglish stuff the
kids and grownups do now.

And yet, I'm a pale-face. Hey guess what. Colombia has a great big
majority of people who are white. Not all of us are brown/black with
ultra-curly hair.

Just like any other nationality, the racial spectrum in Latin America
is varied. We even have "oriental-looking" people.

--
Stephanie