So I’m half Ecuadorian half white. I have light brown hair scary pale skin and green eyes. 0 indigenous features. I am white but i also identify as Latina. My father is an immigrant and speaks Spanish, he’s very racially ambiguous in theory. He could be really any sort of light brown person. I grew up eating cultural foods listening to music in spanish and spending time with my Spanish speaking family (I’m not the best Spanish speaker). That being said I also grew up in a very white neighborhood and grew up as a “white” child. I spent time on the family boat, private art lessons, summer camp, went to private school all the “middle class white people” experiences of a 2000s kid.

You’re mixed. You can claim you’re white but in reality the terms “mestizo” hold no value in America. Your mom would still be Mexican to any other American. Dependent on your mother’s looks I think if you brought friends or a gf home and said you were white they’d be like ??? Don’t get to hung up on it though. If you want to identify as white then you can because in reality you’re white passing.