My theory on why a certain group hates another

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I once speculated as well that humans are also animals and animals are even afraid of those that are different than them, that is why they run from us or attack us when they feel threatened. Humans are the same way but they express it differently. That is why we face prejudice and bigotry from NTs.

No one is immune to prejudice. Some just have it worse than others so therefore people are going to be racists while some others will not but will still be prejudice towards other groups such as neurodiverse people or be intolerant towards anyone who is different or feel threatened by something that is different. I used to get harassed for petty things like the teacher somehow felt threatened by a black pencil I was using because "it wasn't a school pencil" so she used to scold me about it when in fact it was my mom that gave me some new school supplies top use for school and these were the pencils she gave me. They were not colored pencils, they were gray led pencils like yellow ones. Another time at a family reunion, my family decided to use a lantern as a imaginary campfire since the state had banned campfires due to drought. People did question us about it and make a big deal about it and my relatives kept saying "it's our campfire, we can't have a real one so this is our campfire."

The majority of Mexicans and Central Americans are mestizo. And it's not 50/50. Most are mainly Amerindian with some European admixture.

In Puerto Rico, the one drop rule works in reverse. If ONE ancestor was white in the past few generations, then the person often checks off "white only," even if they're only of 1/4 or 1/8 European ancestry. Puerto Rico reports an 82% white-only population. Ancestrally, Puerto Ricans are some of the most mixed-race people within the US domain. Nothing wrong with that, but census statistics can be deceiving, since it's up to the individual to self-report. You're conclusions are off base.

I take it you've never met or interacted with Hispanics. Do you even live in the US?

Your conclusions are in error. Majority of Hispanics in the US are of Native/Euro admixture.

Sorry, but Mestizo does mean half and half, just like Mulatto means half white and half black. I think it's a bit ignorant to paint all Latinos as Native because there's been European Colonisation across the whole entire Central and South America.

While there's been European colonization across the continent there's significant areas where it wasn't substantial.

Those terms you're using (mestizo and mullato) mean mixed and don't literally only refer to 'half and half'.

I read in some languages/cultures they mean 50/50 and there are other words for other ratios.
Here, "Metys" and "Mulat" mean "mixed Native American - European" and "mixed African - European", with significant - but not precisely defined - ratio of both.
"Mulat" is often used in description of one's appearance, with visible both African and European traits.

I am surprised most people voted the reason was that the opposite side are authoritarian bigots I did to. I mean at least on that poll that was by far the biggest reason people voted and we have people from all over the world here.

There used to be terms like quadroon and octoroon that describe other ratios, those might be the ones you have in mind.

The Spanish word for "calico cat" is "gato mulato" (mixed blood cat).

The words "mulato" and "mistizo" just mean "mixed blood". They dont specify the exact ratio. As Funeral pointed out, there were terms for French origin terms for actual ratios (Octoroon, and quadroon) for folks of mixed Black and White ancestry in the caribean and in Louisiana (before the later got absorbed into the Anglo USA).