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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    My Spanish teacher was talking about this yesterday. She is Cuban, and she is white. She was complaining about how when she has to fill out forms, what box does she check? She is hispanic, but she is white as well. Why can she have only one choice? Her race is white, her ethneticity is hispanic. She complained that not all Hispanics are dark skinned. She said in some parts of Mexico, they are blonde haired, blue eyed.


    She also said that she gets hell all the time for being a white Cuban, because many people think all Cubans are black.
    ohhh yeah, ive met two really cute white jamicans once. they were dutch/german heritage and had been born on the island, their family had been there for several generations too. i guess genetically they are still white, but it does seem slightly odd to be blonde and from jamacia.

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    My mom is black, or as I used to say when I was little "mommy you are brown" but it's cause her great grandfather was from Africa. My father was white with green eyes and his great grandmother was from Spain and his great grandfather was from France. Both their parents were born in PR and they were born in PR and the mix of them two made me and they call me "cafe con leche" coffee with milk.

    I married a Dutch man and my children are blonds with white skin and this other thing that bothers me on more than one level is "Are those your kids?" I usually smile and say "yes" but when I get an idiot who says "Really? are you sure?" yeah I don't hold my tongue back. First off not anyone's fucking business, second if at this day in age you have to wonder if a black family has a white child and it can't be theirs your brain must be smaller than the average bird. There is adoption, cross races and wtf?

    Why are people so hung up in having matching children? I am not saying that people should not marry their race or anything like that I'm just pointing out that if you see an Asian person with a child who is dark skinned think, perhaps their spouse, donor or adoptive parents were not ASIAN!

    I just get upset.

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    Argh-the boy is Dominican and English (he calls himself Britino) and the extended family has spent lots of time asking stupid questions-Is he Italian? Mexican? How do you spell the last name? It's also somehow mystifying that he speaks english despite a Brit mom.

    They don't even KNOW where the Dominican Republic IS. People are dumb. I hate the race part of forms. And opinions.

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    I get similar when people find out I'm Egyptian, usually they'll go, "no way, but you aren't dark with a turban!".



    I always get annoyed at the "race" question on applications. I'm not considered white by American standards, but there is rarely an Arab box. One company actually did have a space for Arab countries, and when I checked it, the human resources calle dme and asked if I was "being smart" or "making a statement"...because I obviously am not Arab, because I am pale.

    *bangs head in*

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    skin color doesn't tell you where the person is from. I'm white, 5'7, green eyed and 100% MEXICAN, nobody would never guess that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Embyr View Post
    i thought all spanish speaking people were brazilian or some shit.

    (ahem, i love when the brazilian dancers at my club get this... )
    LOL too funny isn't it?

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    You know whats funny? my bouncer from the club said that his mom told him Mexicans were a mixture of black and white people. So he never knew what a mexican was I told him is it because some of us are white or really dark or just in between ? lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Heel_Lover View Post
    "Are those your kids?" I usually smile and say "yes" but when I get an idiot who says "Really? are you sure?"
    What a fucking idiot! "Are you sure?"

    "Oh my gods, youre right, THIS one isnt mine!"

    People!

    I get that alot with my husbands family. As Im quite clearly white (or "other" on all the forms I get to fill out over there) the locals think Ive stolen someones baby, and I have to explain, "no this is my niece" constantly.

    One of my cousins is half aboriginal, and has three kids with a very dark full blood aboriginal.
    Its always fantastic to see the look on peoples faces when her black as black kids come running up to me for a hug in public.

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    One of my fears is some nut calling the cops on me "hmm look that Mexican stole some white kids" wrong on so many levels!

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    Quote Originally Posted by francescadubois View Post
    That'd be me.

    I love how EVERYONE assumes I'm Dominican because I have brown skin. Um, no dear, not all Puerto Rican's are J.Lo's color. Thanks. In fact, I would argue that there are just as many dark Latins as there are white skinned Latins, but everyone just assumes they're African American until of course we open our mouths and shock the shit outta ya.
    LOL. I blame Hollywood for that one. She's not even that color either, she's pale with bronze in a can. Notice how mostly all of them are spray tanned like that, with hightlight caramel hair. They all look the same. lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Heel_Lover View Post
    One of my fears is some nut calling the cops on me "hmm look that Mexican stole some white kids" wrong on so many levels!
    They'd probably assume that you're their nanny, which is not as bad but still horrible.

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    I usually get mistaken as Eastern European.

    On my mother's side of the family, a lot of the ancestors are of Spaniard decent. The town in PR where my mother is from(Orocovis), supposedly years back lots of Spaniards migrated there. Hence, why there is a lot of light skin ppl.

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    im half colombian and speak a little spanish,when thy hear me talk to (ok,Mexicans,for real) people assume im mexican also,just because im not speaking english. do i LOOK mexican? i feel ya.... let us know what E! says..

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    I always ask a person if I'm interested in where they are from/ their ethnicity, so I don't put my foot in my mouth. I met this gorgeous man at the laundrymat who spoke English and an aztec dialect (I couldn't pronounce it if I tried), but the combination of his hotness and his accent...whew! ok maybe I am getting a little off subject here...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyanka View Post
    LOL. I blame Hollywood for that one. She's not even that color either, she's pale with bronze in a can. Notice how mostly all of them are spray tanned like that, with hightlight caramel hair. They all look the same. lol.
    Amen to that. Not to mention I can go to Bronx and meet 500 other Latinas that look just as good or better than J.Lo. But to be honest, I love being undercover Latina. I never get away with it when I'm in New York though. EVERYONE speaks to me in Spanish.
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    Oh they haven't said a thing but I shall write something else. Also Hearts tell us more lol

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    In 1519, the native civilizations of what now is known as Mexico were invaded by Spain, and two years later in 1521, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was conquered by an alliance between Spanish and Tlaxcaltecs (the main enemies of Aztecs)

    Mexico was colonized by Spain, during which time the majority of its indigenous population died off.

    Before the spain invaded, Mexico was Indian land. There was no Spanish speaking people there until after spain invaded. For some of you that don't know this, Mexico's Spanish language came from the Spaniards. So really Mexicans are a just a new race that evolved between two races, white people(Spaniards) and Indians(Mayan and Aztecs). If you notice some Mexicans look like Indians and some are light complected.

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