Isn't in colloquial usage, hispanic seen as a synonym for mestizo

[Dremmer]

And thus treated as a race? White hispanics and black hispanics aren't seen as hispanics, and mestizo people are seen as being the hispanic race.

 

[Dremmer]

I posted this in the wrong forum. Could someone move it to the Social Sciences forum?

 

[skeptic2]

There was a Supreme Court case a few decades ago in which two Spaniards working in the U.S. filed suit against their employer for discrimination. The employer contended that they couldn't claim discrimination because they were both caucasian. The court decided that they did qualify for a discrimination suit because of their hispanic surnames. Considering the court's decision and that I am not hispanic, is my adopted daughter from Mexico, now with a non-hispanic surname, still hispanic?

Frankly to me, the idea of treating group with nothing in common except a collection of surnames is absurd. To include Spaniards and citizens of the Domincan Republic in the same group is as absurd as including citizens of France and Haiti in the same group.