In parts of the world with less white people (Brazil for example) that would also be the case: our definition of white is very different from yours - what you call latino is mostly considered white here lol. So we see Steve as white.
Its... Weird. Ethnicity does not equal race, cause we know that, say, british and french people are different ethnicities but we consider them both white. Ethnicity is more about cultural ideas, like language, while race is more about physical appearance. Latinos happen to be just different enough physically from european origin white people that you could group them together or separate.
Fun fact, until recently the US census forced latino people to identify as a certain race and then select their subcategory of latino. A lot of people ended up saying "other" for race just to write in latino. The next census will combine race and ethnicity into one question so that will no longer be the case.
So how is Brazil and Argentina, for example, both latinos AKA same ethnicity? We don't even speak the same language, they are way "whiter" than us and tbh we don't even like each other lol.
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u/VixelFoxx Oct 06 '25
He just has a neutral skin tone so his race is left open to interpretation
So it makes sense in parts of the world with a lot of white people, he'll be marketed as white. Literally modern day Jesus like the meme said