Ah, I missed the initial point, and I appreciate the clarification.^Those are interspecies relations. In the trek universe those seem to be more common than interracial relations
Are there too many white people in Star Trek?
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I don't want to make assumptions about the actors' nationalities.
Well, she's Hispanic, unless "not white" only means black.
I'll bear that in mind next time a Gorn makes a pass at me
There aren't that many married couples being shown in Trek, but I'm pretty should O'Brien is married to an Asian woman. Spock himself is a product of a biracial couple, Human and Vulcan.
Hispanic can be white. Under its most common definition, it refers to individuals whose ancestry is rooted in Spain, which is a European nation.
But are mostly "Brown."
The point I was making with my previous comment is that these distinctions are probably by and large meaningless from the perspective of the 24th century characters. There really isn't such a concept as race in the 24th century (much less a nationality such as "American") because the national, geographic and social borders which define them have gone, as have the original evolutionary pressures which drove their origins. Rather than being largely identifiable by a particular ethnic group, the divides have blended until people are simply, well, people, albeit on a rather well mixed spectrum of biologically possible colours.
The only reason this isn't more evident on screen is that those characters are portrayed by actors whose own heritage is still defined by those ethnicities.
The only reason this isn't more evident on screen is that those characters are portrayed by actors whose own heritage is still defined by those ethnicities.
Technically, "Hispanic" is supposed to mean connected to Spain. But in the US, the term "Hispanic" is commonly used in an imprecise way to refer to people from Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, no matter what their exact ancestry or shade of skin color.
There is definitely a certain shared cultural experience among those from Latin America living in the US. Even Ricardo Montalban, who was from Mexico City but whose parents were both 100% Spaniards who immigrated from Spain, found himself marginalized in Hollywood as a "brown" person.
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Fun fact, in Spanish the demonym for individuals from the U.S. is 'estadounidense'. A person in Argentina could (and often would) refer to himself or herself as 'americano/americana', as they are also from a place called America, and live in a nation called Argentina.
Believe me, as a non-Latina Hispanic immigrant to the United States I am well aware of this.
Believe me, as a non-Latina Hispanic immigrant to the United States I am well aware of this.
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