Controversy over a New York Times study that determines that Spaniards are not white

A study published recently in the prestigious newspaper

has unleashed a strong controversy by stating that Spanish and Portuguese people are not white.

Entitled

, the study classifies the most powerful people by race.

In the report, the American newspaper assures that

, but not those born in Spain and Portugal or their descendants.

A classification that has sparked controversy and has been

.

According to the theory of the sociologist at the University of Chicago,

, published this weekend on Twitter, the reason for this classification is "to classify anyone whose last name sounds 'Hispanic' as non-white."

However, he points out that people of

origin

"such as Iranian-American Farnam Jahanian or Marc Lasry, who was born in Morocco,

are classified

as white."

Thus, people like

, Managing Director of Inditex and born in Madrid or

, congressman of the Democratic party and of Basque origin, are part of the 20% "non-white".

According to Flores, "the reading of Iberian cultural signals as non-white and the classification of people from the Middle East as white is a uniquely American phenomenon. This is a good example of how the limits of" white ", along with the rest of racial categories, they change over time and are shaped by social and political factors. "

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