Latin American countries have a long (and shameful) habit of denying their African roots, feeling that it lessens them in the (racist) eyes of the world. Hence, they use "mulatto", "indio", "moreno" to differentiate themselves from "The Negro or Black", letting that designation sit with Americans. In reality, more slave ships went to the Caribbean and South American than to America, so Africans mixed in with native populations and created a brown/black society, though ethnically they identify as Latin/Hispanic. "Mulatto" is a term fraught with intimations of slavery and history's degradation of brown skinned people. I can't see from the avatars on the comments how many opinions are coming from BIPOC members vs. those of Caucasian/White members - the latter should take care in promoting opinions that are based on a lack of knowledge on ethnicity, "race" or colorism. (As you might conclude from my comments, I am BIPOC)