You are a million percent correct. There is a lot of work to be done and it starts with our communities being self-aware and accepting of these issues. Most of the time, we shrug them off and refuse to acknowledge it.
As deep-seated as this issue is, I find the statistic you cite toward the end of the piece to be encouraging: "The number of Latinos who identified as multiracial increased from 3 million in 2010 to more than 20 million in 2020."
I, too, find it encouraging and I hope that we, as a collective people, start to have these difficult conversations within our community, starting with our families.
This strikes a chord here. i’m on the light side (trigueño) unless in the sun for long (indio), with flat wavy hair, and in LA i’m either Dominican or Guatemaltecan when speaking spanish with other Latinos.
it’s a badge of honor, when a spanish speaker stranger starts speaking to you. they would as soon speak english or not at all if they thought otherwise. i’m pretty ambiguous (middle eastern-east indian-iranian) looking so usually it’s the garbachas who are discriminating with me.
i have met some darker skinned latinos personally with more latinidad, one who surprises abuelitas chismandas by his own admission. in a way, he has that superpower of “secret latino.”
LA is the city of mestizos. meaning they have no idea of the spectrum we run.
I couldn’t agree more. The pain from internal discrimination is gut-wrenching and feels as if you’ve experienced the ultimately betrayal - but in the end, this internal discrimination is a byproduct of colonization. It is our preconditioning that teaches us this is okay. It is not. :(
As a Cuban native, I can attest that this is also an issue in Cuba and by extension, Miami. There's definitely a lot of work to be done in this area.
You are a million percent correct. There is a lot of work to be done and it starts with our communities being self-aware and accepting of these issues. Most of the time, we shrug them off and refuse to acknowledge it.
As deep-seated as this issue is, I find the statistic you cite toward the end of the piece to be encouraging: "The number of Latinos who identified as multiracial increased from 3 million in 2010 to more than 20 million in 2020."
I, too, find it encouraging and I hope that we, as a collective people, start to have these difficult conversations within our community, starting with our families.
This strikes a chord here. i’m on the light side (trigueño) unless in the sun for long (indio), with flat wavy hair, and in LA i’m either Dominican or Guatemaltecan when speaking spanish with other Latinos.
it’s a badge of honor, when a spanish speaker stranger starts speaking to you. they would as soon speak english or not at all if they thought otherwise. i’m pretty ambiguous (middle eastern-east indian-iranian) looking so usually it’s the garbachas who are discriminating with me.
i have met some darker skinned latinos personally with more latinidad, one who surprises abuelitas chismandas by his own admission. in a way, he has that superpower of “secret latino.”
LA is the city of mestizos. meaning they have no idea of the spectrum we run.
I couldn’t agree more. The pain from internal discrimination is gut-wrenching and feels as if you’ve experienced the ultimately betrayal - but in the end, this internal discrimination is a byproduct of colonization. It is our preconditioning that teaches us this is okay. It is not. :(