那一天，无论我们来自何方，信仰为何，或是哪个种族或血统，我们都团结成为一个统一的美国大家庭。
On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.
这看来够清楚了吧，但当非白人祖先是祖辈或曾祖辈，少数种族血统越来越稀释时，情况又变得微妙起来。
That seemed clear enough, but things got tricky when the nonwhite ancestor was a grandparent or a great-grandparent and the minority blood became increasingly diluted.
尽管危地马拉1300万人口中大约40%是玛雅人的血统，但直到最近，危地马拉一直被拉迪诺人(ladinos欧洲人或混血人血统)所垄断。
Until recently it had been a monopoly of the ladinos (people of European or mixed ancestry), even though some 40% of Guatemala's population of 13m is of Mayan descent.
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