1305
Womp, womp (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
128 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51614955

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm a white hotel towel Mexican

Always thought it was strange to mark "White, Hispanic" on everything because that was an option always growing up. Like you all really do need to know my skin color don't you.

If you didn't know my last name you'd never guess I wasn't "American"

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
    •
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I recall correctly, it's actually a throw back to the American Mexican war, when the war ended one of the terms of the treaty was that Hispanics would legally be white, and thus safe from things like slavery. So later when the government census wanted to know they invented "white, Hispanic".

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I get told all the time I'm not Hispanic because I'm white.

    Its not my fault a white Brit knocked up my Costa Rican grandma. And my grandma certainly cultured me while she was alive.

    So I just say I'm a white Hispanic to clear the confusion.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I'm half Mexican half Finnish. Strange mix. Pure white.

    I understand the hardship

    Random people do not think my father is my father.

    I've been stopped multiple times by police walking with him to make sure I was okay when I was a kid. All good, just walking around the neighborhood with my dad lol.

    Edit: It's also funny growing up people asking me who our gardener was. Also my dad.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent