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I'm frequently accused of being a white person by people who are looking directly at me and seeing my tan skin and my shoulder blade length dark brown hair.
And I don't really know what to say. Like, thank you for letting me enjoy the white privilege card, but it doesn't really do me any favors because in most areas the native American privilege card outweighs the white privilege card.
On the other hand, I am occasionally accused of being a Mexican even though I'm 6 ft 1 and speak very fluent English without a identifiable accent.
And old people have handed me things written in Spanish and asked me to translate it for them because it's my native language and it's fucking not, but then, since I can usually figure out what written Spanish means I still tell them the answer but I feel weird about it and I don't want to be made to feel that way.
so... like Borat?
Yez, iz very nice
Went to my regular Mexican place the other day and the waiter starts rattling off Spanish to my wife. My wife is Pilipino.
She didn't know what was going on and replied with the handful of words she knows. I was LMAO internally.
I find the simarities between the Phillipines and Mexico pretty interesting. I guess being fucked by the Spaniards will do that to cultures.
Like what? I've barely known any Mexicans and am just now learning about Filipinos. Great cultures in either case.
We have a fair bit of shared last names and words.
I do hear a good bit of Spanish when my wife is speaking Tagalog. Don't know why I found that surprising. And yes, both her maiden and middle names are Spanish.
Funny how people expect them to have "foreign" names. Nah. It's all, Amy and Rob and Antonio and Phillip and such.
I also get accused of it and my skin is tan. I was born in a Latin American country, I can speak Spanish, I can cook Hispanic dishes. Idk what to tell you.
Im like 94% percent mexican, but im 5’10” and speak fluent english with arguably the most neutral english accent, and speak next to no spanish (just a bit i learned in highschool)
People always assuming i speak spanish…
What benefit outweighs never having to think about race or be impacted by it?
Strange how you're getting downvoted and mocked, but nobody seems to have an answer. I too am rather curious where in the actual fuck being considered native-American outweighs white privilege! On a reservation?
(I'm not sure if I have to clarify, as this isn't Reddit, but here goes: I do NOT agree with the current state of race relations and abhor the fact that "being white" is considered the best.)
Fucking racesplaining, lol.
Bro what are you on about nobody else knows what you're saying
It's cool if you don't have an answer. I'll just remain curious.