Anonymous hurricanebelle 9w

Well as a non-Mexican latino who is a fluent Spanish speaker and frequently goes back to my country, I literally got bullied throughout all of middle school and high school for “not speaking like a Mexican” “not looking latino”. One time I had an event for the latin American students in my high school at my house. My South American mother welcomed them in with open arms and cooked all this amazing food for them. And two kids had the audacity to spit the food out in front of her (1/2)

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Anonymous hurricanebelle 9w

and they yelled at her in very broken “chicano no sabo” Spanish and left our house. The next day at school, non of the Mexicans talked to me after that and I was NEVER invited to any other latin American community events after that. And the worst part is since they spoke such incorrect Spanish to her, she didn’t understand so she thought it was only too hot. So she then made MORE food for them as an apology :(

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Anonymous OP 9w

They sound toxic.

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Anonymous hurricanebelle 9w

I tried to tell her not to bc they were so rude and she just said “todo lo que podemos hacer es seguir simpáticos y respetuosos”. we dropped them off at one of the kid’s house and later I saw him throw the food SHE MADE into the trash. As she drove off. And if you think this was a “one time thing” EVERY TIME I GO TO A MEXICAN RESTAURANT THE WORKERS TELL ME I DONT KNOW HOW TO SPEAK SPANISH. THIS SHIT WAS MY FIRST FUCKING LANGUAGE

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Anonymous hurricanebelle 9w

Like I’m sorry I don’t say “popote” but that doesn’t mean people should invalidate my identity and my upbringing. Ive always been conscious of how I speak Spanish and English. When I was 5 I didn’t speak English. And since I live in a very Mexican neighborhood I get self conscious of how I speak Spanish because someone is going to correct me and tell me I’m saying it wrong in my first language

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Anonymous hurricanebelle 9w

This is just one situation. I could go on and on about how American-born Mexicans have been straight up rude and racist to my family bc of how I look very white and my brother has more Afro-Latino genetics. (My grandmother is 100% Afro-Latina) and how in the heritage speakers Spanish class was literal hell for me because the teacher who was also Mexican tried to correct my accent because I didn’t “speak like a Mexican”

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Anonymous #1 9w

I agree that parents and generational customs are part of this. However I feel that once you are of high school age or in college, it should be less difficult to differentiate between right and wrong

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Anonymous #1 9w

I also could yap abt this forever but def gonna be more respectful and level headed with you compared to the other comment

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Anonymous #3 9w

I disliked Mexicans and Cubans for the longest time because of the horrible racist stuff they’ve said and the way they treated me but not every Mexican is the same and neither are Cubans.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Sure but the Mexican-American community is what also gives us Latinos in general a bad reputation. Same for the Trump voting Cubans, racist Argentinians.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Of course not every Mexican is the same but due to a lack of representation in society by non-Mexican Latinos many Mexican-Americans feel entitled to claim that they represent all of us which is so far from the truth.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Like all of these “no sabo tests” on Mexican-American kids are so fucking embarrassing. Not being able to speak the language is one thing, but these are the same kids that act so immaturely, feel entitled to say the n-word (the amount of Mexican-Americans that think they can say the n-word with no consequences is scary). People like those kids are the same kids that bullied me for “talking funny” in Spanish or would say my latin food looked gross. Or that I was latino bc I didn’t “look like it”.

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Anonymous OP 9w

This demographic gives the real Mexicans a bad rep and why outsiders feel like they can make stereotypes and racist jokes about us. And I hate to use social media as a prime example, but you would never seen a Bolivian, or a Colombian, a Costa Rican, a Dominican on those “no sabo test” videos. Most of us non-Mexican Latinos stay true to our roots and preserve our authentic culture like in our home countries. Most Mexican-Americans just boast about their identity but don’t represent it well atall

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Anonymous OP 9w

Yeah definitely valid points those are all very problematic with saying the n word and they don’t really represent the culture or all Latinos very well and the no sabo tests are hella weird.

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Anonymous #3 9w

I still gotta disagree tho. That’s a huge blanket statement over a huge group of people. There lack of representation of other Latinos is due various social and political marginalization of LATAM. Mexico just so happens to be next door to the U.S. which is the largest exporter of mass media so they were bound to be the most visible. The “no sabo” test came abt because Latinos in the U.S. feel as if they have to time and time again prove they are “Latino enough”.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Also the West is gonna stereotype Latinos as Mexican no matter what we do. Lots of Americans don’t care to learn abt the differences between all the Latin American countries. They do that with the Middle East and South East Asia and the entire continent of Africa.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Personally to me I kinda just see this as an argument abt “who’s the most Latino enough” “what does it mean to be Latino” which again is really hard to fit a single identity into one box. Also people who were born and raised in Latin America are just are racist, colorist, toxic, and problematic they just refuse to acknowledge any of those issues and push it under the rug much like Europe does when it come to those issues.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Well for me at least, I have to prove I’m “latino enough” to my own community because of the vast majority of people in my area being Mexicans

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Anonymous #3 9w

And you think that’s good?

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Anonymous #4 8w

I’ve lived in Miami and while I do think soflo Cubans are pretty toxic they are no where NEAR the Mexicans in Texas, New York and California (they’re nicer in San Diego but they’re AWFUL in LA)

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Anonymous OP 8w

Idk i haven’t been to texas but all the cubans in 305 i know are racist asf

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Anonymous #4 8w

They are sure but when I lived in Miami no one ever said my dialect was “incorrect” or said I was a “fake latino”

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Anonymous #4 8w

They also knew where my country was while many Mexicans in Cali and Texas were like “where is that?” 🤦🏻‍♂️

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