If you don’t descend from the Founding Stock Hispanics, from those who conquered, founded, and settled the villas in the 15 and 1600s, pre-independence, you ARE NOT Criollo ethnically.
If your father and his father and his father didn’t attend one of the elite “colegios” of LATAM, you ARE NOT Criollo in the class sense.
If the bulk of your ancestors arrived here by steamship instead of sail, you ARE NOT Criollo—you are an immigrant, a “gringo” as they called you in Argentina, gachupin, gallego etc
If there isn’t a plot of land that’s been in your family’s hands before a Simon Bolivar or Iturbide or San Martin were born, you ARE NOT Criollo in the cultural sense.
If you don’t have ancestry that fought in the wars of Independence, when Criollos hunted and stacked mountains of loyalist forces corpses, you ARE NOT Criollos in the historic sense.
Please stop doing Stolen Valor with our ancestors and their historical development and culture.
Europoors born in LATAM ARE NOT Criollo.
White Ellis Islanders ARE NOT WASPs, Yanks, or Dixies.
Thank you for your Attention to this matter.
Para ustedes cuantos criollos hay en el mundo (entre Hispanoamerica, Brasil y Norteamerica fuera de América)? Para mi debe rondar los 60 millones, y mas de la mitad son solamente de Argentina y Brasil.