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What do people expect latinos to look like and why do they expect it?


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I'm saying this bc some time ago I got into chat roulette with some friend since we were bored and some guys called us things like crackers and chinks, which at the moment we didn't know what it meant

 

I'm just writing this because I'm honestly curious, do people expect latinos to be all tan, sexy and etc? As someone who is from south America O have to tell you that sadly that's not true lol i myself is an example bc I'm pale, skinny and (sadly) plane af

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Most people associate the world latino with metizo/mestiço and don't understand that latino is not a race. Saying you're latino gives you as much information to someone as saying you're North American, it can give you some idea but it's very open ended. Unlike North America, South America was colonized to extract resources, not to become a settlement for european families, so we do have more miscegenation due to that. 

 

Even then you can't make assumptions because unlike americans we don't do the one drop rule, so even if you have mixed heritage (as most people probably have) you can identify as white and be treated as such as long as you look like it (not limited to lily white looks, a lot would be considered mixed by americans).

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Because people don't really think about Latin America in general, Central & South America...

 

I'm latino and I am tan but not really dark. Both of my parents are from El Salvador and their parents before them, etc. I do look quite mixed too- I've gotten lots of different guesses to "what I am"

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I didn't know about Asian so learned something new there! But glad I'm not too far off, I do try to pay attention.

Yes there's really everything here lol so I get really mad when people say that I'm not Latin just because I don't fit in the (wrong) idea of Latin people lol

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Yes there's really everything here lol so I get really mad when people say that I'm not Latin just because I don't fit in the (wrong) idea of Latin people lol

I can't believe people try to tell you you're not Latin... don't they realise you'd know better than them lol, smh

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I can't believe people try to tell you you're not Latin... don't they realise you'd know better than them lol, smh

There was a guy that told me to stop faking it and to confess that I was lying and that I was actually "white" and that I should stop... like do people realize that "Latin" is not a race?

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There was a guy that told me to stop faking it and to confess that I was lying and that I was actually "white" and that I should stop... like do people realize that "Latin" is not a race?

How to be that ignorant... I'm nowhere near Latin America and even I know it's not a race. People don't care enough to educate themselves.

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people usually expect latinos to be tan and curvy like demi lovato. its pretty much the same with how people think asians are pale skinned and have monolids bc they only know china and japan :imstupid:

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