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Originally Posted by acottawa
Race is significantly a social construct, but Buffy St Marie doesn't obviously look indigenous, she styles herself to look indigenous. If she styled herself like a Nona in Woodbridge I don't think anyone would think she looked indigenous.
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I am sure that experts can pick this stuff apart easily, but to the average uneducated layman, there are people from the European Mediterranean that superficially seem to have common facial traits to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. (At least, to what some Indigenous people here look like today.)
Similarly, it can happen that certain Latin Americans will get mistaken for South Asians by the average Joe Schmo.