SewBlue on Nostr: Hank G ☑️ npub1edc7d…f0q44 My husband is Mexican so maybe I can shed light. ...
Hank G ☑️ (npub1agu…j0sk) npub1edc7de4fv9jfq8ggdsjpqpsewvjuukf29246mqke63nz93p8c2qsvf0q44 (npub1edc…0q44) My husband is Mexican so maybe I can shed light.
Some of the New Mexican family branch will correct you. We are not Mexican we are Spanish in origin. They are the whitest of the bunch, you'd have no idea their heritage. 3rd generation at least.
Mexico's racism is explicitly class based, to the point the white elites call those with brown skin peasants. A small group of colonizers and a large indigenous population. The Spanish did not immigrate like the Brits. Rural parts of Mexico don't always speak Spanish, they speak Aztec or other local languages. Repeated all over Latin America.
That nuance isn't going to show up in a check box, or highlight how white colonization worked. The color based racism is something many Latinos identify with, especially if they only choose to focus on their European ancestry.
Edit: missing word
Some of the New Mexican family branch will correct you. We are not Mexican we are Spanish in origin. They are the whitest of the bunch, you'd have no idea their heritage. 3rd generation at least.
Mexico's racism is explicitly class based, to the point the white elites call those with brown skin peasants. A small group of colonizers and a large indigenous population. The Spanish did not immigrate like the Brits. Rural parts of Mexico don't always speak Spanish, they speak Aztec or other local languages. Repeated all over Latin America.
That nuance isn't going to show up in a check box, or highlight how white colonization worked. The color based racism is something many Latinos identify with, especially if they only choose to focus on their European ancestry.
Edit: missing word