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I don't get it, the article calls her a Mexican woman, but also says that she voted for Trump. Wouldn't voting in a US federal election mean she's has to be a US American woman?
You can be an American citizen who was born elsewhere...
Sure but by naturalising she would become a US American woman originally from Mexico. Unless you're allowed to retain original citizenship in which case she'd be a dual citizen of both. But just calling her a Mexican woman living in the USA does not make sense.
It's called racism. In America when you're not white the question of where you come from becomes. "no but really where are you from?" as in "what is your ancestry?"
This is important to Americans because they use race as a baseline for how to treat you.
This is why the lady in question is Mexican to Americans before being an American.
Just like how terms like asian american came into existence. Not fully accepted as american, not fully accepted as asian.
America is both a melting pot of cultures and also one of the most racist places to exist
It's more of a salad than a melting pot.
In America, that's also a question white people get. Melting pot with several historically recent waves of mass migration tends to keep those questions alive.
Yep, it's funny about the levels of "whiteness" you can be.
I'm not white and when I told this to some Ethiopian & Somalian school friends growing up they told me "well, you're not black".
What I meant to say is: White people don't treat me as though I'm white. Which is really the important detail.
It's also very interesting to have people try to decode my race/origin. Some people have guessed middle eastern, french?, Italian, First Nations.
This is why I said I've noticed that some people put a lot of emphasis on your race (so they ask you) and it is important to then for how they perceive you.
Because unless you're the right kind of white you'll never just be an "American", you'll always be a "something-American", but you don't have to come from the US to be an American, you just have be white and not have an accent.
You were born from Danish parents born in Denmark and have lived your whole life in the US so you don't have an accent? You're an American. You're a black dude whose ancestors were brought to the US by force 500 years ago and your family hasn't set foot outside the country since then? You're an African-American.