In reply to TheOriginalUggh.

Actually she hasn't 'passed for white' her whole career when she's had a Spanish album during her debut, at least one Latin-inspired song in every one of her album, openly spoken about her roots and her Ecuadorian father, worked with the World Food Program to raise money for South American countries, and the fact that she never changed her name.

The truth of the matter is, she IS Caucasian, as is a majority of European Hispanics. She can't help that she's half Irish and half Ecuadorian. She's as Latin as JLo, as Shakira, as Alexis Bledel, as Anya Taylor Joy, the list goes on. So she's not a native speaking Ecuadorian? Does that mean she's not entitled to learn about that half of her culture? That's like saying Mariah cannot access her Afro-Latina heritage, or that the Wayans brothers have no business being Black in America because their ancestry originates from South East Asia.