Not being considered White has been good for South America
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Most non-white cultures have pretty strict inter-race distinctions of judging you based on your shade of brown/yellow/red/whatever.
And most of that always comes back to the fact that even they consider the lighter/whiter skinned ones the prettiest and hate them for it. Light skinned black guys get more racism from other black guys than anything the white on black puts out.
I'm nice and medium probably because of my distant white ancestry so I get no hate
The South Americans are, I suppose, representative of their country's primary ethnicity. That would be Spanish with various levels of native admixture. A pure white Spanish woman is a member of this group.
On the other hand, for the United States and the European countries, black is not the primary ethnic group. Those candidates are distinctly not representative of the majority.
Looking at South America in such reductive terms such as "all spanish" is applying an American lens to a continent that doesn't use it. A pure White woman will not be accepted as the same as the brownish one among her countrymen, even if she is native to it because she is so rare. Most of these Nations aren't like the US/Canada where our Natives are basically gone and people have to look for 1/124th blood to be part of it.
Using Guatemala for example, almost half their population is pure Native at around 43~%. The Mixed population is around 56~% and have a majority of their bloodlines as Native, not Spanish. That girl up there is probably rarer in her country than a black person in one of top row. (Honestly given her name, she is almost certainly an immigrant of some sort). The numbers for the others are similar, though they all have very different demographic breakdowns because of how touchy of a subject it is (Colombia seems to not even separate mixed and white).
We all know the black ones are picked for political reasons, but most non-white nation's "beauty contests" are equally non-representative for a completely different reason.
So you're saying that Miss Guatemala would not be recognized as coming from her country's primary ethnic group?
Not this Ms Guatemala. But checking past title holders, Guatemalans select beauty over their admixture spectrum.
This means the women are hot and range from dark featured mestizas (2011) to very light skinned nearly white, whether representative of the majority or not.
As it should be.
Well considering you are using the metric of "Recognize" then unlikely. Both internally and externally. Unless you want to point out the secret history of the Mayans looking incredibly white.
Any of the other ones, their name would give some credence to the claim. But Ivana has a slavic first name and a traditional Scot/Brit last.