Mi Gente Latino on Yik Yak | Why are some latinos (more specifically Mexicans) not aware of the fact that they are essentially white. I’ve met so many that barely have indigenous features but will still call themselves brown

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Mi Gente Latino 3w

Why are some latinos (more specifically Mexicans) not aware of the fact that they are essentially white. I’ve met so many that barely have indigenous features but will still call themselves brown

Anonymous 2w

because in the us being latino, and even being hispanic is very racialised, so even cubans, puerto ricans, argentinians etc who are indeed white will tend to not identify as such due to the forced racialisation of latinos

Anonymous 3w

😂

Anonymous

#2 2w

this and ALSO because i think a lot of (specifically no sabo kids) do not like being seen as just anglo americans (even if this is what they are culturally), so it causes them to identify with being “latino” (and by extension not white) even if irl they are white and most people in latam would not consider them latin american.

Anonymous

#2 2w

this second one is also the reason why white people with maybe 5% indigenous or african or levantine or something ancestry identify with it even if it did not at all affect their upbringing in any meaningful way