![]() ![]() ![]() I didn't realize that people thought I was someone who could be considered weird or different from what I seemed until I was in middle school, around the time my classmates had gotten old enough to be fully indoctrinated by the stereotypes we see all around us. Spoiler alert: I am white and do not speak fluent Spanish.Īnd because I do not look or sound like the "typical" Latina (though, guess what, there is no such thing!) what I hear most often is that I don't seem Puerto Rican at all. ![]() "What are you?" can be directly translated to: "What is your ethnicity?" "Where are you from?" "I can't place you and it's making me uncomfortable!" And it often gets even weirder when I answer that I am proudly made up of a hodgepodge of a few different heritages, but I identify as Latina. Have you ever been asked, " What are you?" by a seemingly well meaning new friend or stranger? I always want to respond with something like "I don't answer existential questions before I've had my coffee!" but of course, I know what these people really mean. ![]()
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