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[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days 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"

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago

Some people even secretly say that Spanish was invented by white people

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

You mean like Texas Senator Rafael “Ted” Cruz?

[–] selfAwareCoder@programming.dev 10 points 2 days 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".

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I remember my grandfather telling me a story about how he didn't know which bathroom to use when he came to the US and someone told him to use the white.

Interesting

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Fascinating and plausible.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Who is even asking you that?