aph-japan reblogged
Just putting it out there, I'm white and Mexican. Shocker, I know. White people exist in Latin America. I've been told to stop speaking Spanish, stop lying about my race???, etc. People are ignorant assholes.
There are the green-eyed Mexicans. The rich blond Mexicans. The Mexicans with the faces of Arab sheiks. The Jewish Mexicans. The big-footed-as-a-German Mexicans. The leftover-French Mexicans. The chaparrito compact Mexicans. The Tarahumara tall-as-a-desert-saguaro Mexicans. The Mediterranean Mexicans. The Mexicans with Tunisian eyebrows. The negrito Mexicans of the double coasts. The Chinese Mexicans. The curly-haired, freckled-faced, red-headed Mexicans. The Lebanese Mexicans. Look, I don’t know what you’re talking about when you say I don’t look Mexican. I am Mexican.
-Sandra Cisneros
That’s my go-to for things like that.
Like there are so many different people in Latin America and it’s so annoying that people in the US think of all of Latin America as brown, and then the Latin American media is like “no everyone’s white”. And everyone else is just like “no it’s both, and you’re hurting everyone so stop it”.
The entire thing is so frustrating to me
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