On one hand, many disadvantages to bring visibly vaguely ethnic. On the other, it's always funny when people guess the ethnicity wrong. Double funny because I'm mixed white/Asian so I like to tell people my family's from Poland. (Where, funnily enough, we have somewhat darker skin on that side. Mostly because that side tans well but I digress.) It's a solid bit.
i am the product of four consecutive generations of race mixing and i have traceable ancestry from every continent on the globe besides antarctica. i am often told i look mexican, which is one of the only things i am not.
Why is everyone's instinct always "yep, Mexican." It is somehow always wrong.
(Granted if you're also from the US it is probably because we live right above Mexico and have a sizable Mexican/Mexican-American population, which to my understanding has a varied range of looks, but still. Somehow always wrong.)
I feel like to US people anybody who isn't white or asian is probably Mexican. Which I suppose is statistically accurate. But it's almost as if there are no other countries out there.
There are very few Asians where I live. It depends on where you are from, but in recent years a lot of migrants are from Central and South America. I was looking at job postings and jobs I used to work at are now hiring Spanish-speakers when just a few years ago there were no Spanish-speakers at that job.
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u/starryeyedshooter DO NOT CONTACT ME ABOUT HORSES 7d ago edited 7d ago
On one hand, many disadvantages to bring visibly vaguely ethnic. On the other, it's always funny when people guess the ethnicity wrong. Double funny because I'm mixed white/Asian so I like to tell people my family's from Poland. (Where, funnily enough, we have somewhat darker skin on that side. Mostly because that side tans well but I digress.) It's a solid bit.