HOLY MOLY WTF
This is an example of people having a hard time understanding that not all Latinos/Latinas or Spanish speakers look like dark-skinned Mexicans.
Birth Name: Kimberly Alexis Bledel
Birth Place: Houston, Texas, USA
Date of Birth: September 16, 1981
Ethnicity: Danish, French and German
Bledel is an American actress who is famous for her roles in the movies, Tuck Everlasting and Sin City and the television series Gilmore Girls. She was born to an Argentine father, Martin Bledel who was originally from Denmark and a Mexican mother, Nanette Dozier of French and German origin. She is fluent in Spanish.
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-___- DETERMINE LATINONESS BY LANGUAGE NOT BY SKIN COLOUR. Her mom is from MEXICO, her dad is from ARGENTINA. Just because she is pale, with blue eyes does NOT mean you identify her as a White-European, who just happens to speak Spanish. This post is pretty racist IMO. A lot of light-skinned Latinos/Latinas, as like myself get a lot of shit in the Latino community and struggle to basically find acceptance because there's this belief that in order to be identified as a real latino, even if you speak Spanish fluently, YOU HAVE TO BE FUCKING BROWN. I'm not sure if this is due to hatred from the Spanish who conqured and killed a ton of people, but since Mexico rejoiced when Spanish won the World Cup a few years back, due to Mexico loving Spain now because they brought Catholicism to them (direct quote from a Mexican-American who answered my question as to why Mexico isn't pissed off as to what Spain did to them)...why would skin colour matter then, if you're happy about being Catholic now??? This whole light-skin issue in all races is really, really, really insane, odd, confusing and makes no fucking sense at all. It's a mixed place to be because I'm aware of light-skinned privilege in society, and I experience it (as a tri-racial woman who can pass as white) no kidding about that...but at the same time I hear stories of African-Americans with dark skin who tell stories of how light-skinned African-Americans won't talk to them because of their differences in complexions, or the popularity and usage of whitening products in Asian countries.
Once, I was flipping channels and stumbled upon one of the BET channels, and here was this discussion by several African-Americans about skin colour. As soon as I landed on the channel I heard this man say this, which I've yet to forgot: I think light-skinned Blacks, and dark-skinned Blacks should be two different races. </end of my commentary>
