Mostly as a form of genetic aspiration or explaining societal neuroses based on skin color. “Just because those brown people are poorer or those mestizos are worse at school than those white people… doesn’t mean I hate them.” Very common sentiment across all LATAM.

Yet, they value whiteness.

Yes, but they don’t *hate* nonwhiteness (not a word, I know). That level of racial hate is just not common. It’s not like in the US and the issues with Jim Crow.

I think they do.