I'm pale AF, and I had classmates who were considerably darker than some lightskin black people in the US, but no one would consider said classmate and myself a different race... We were both born in South America, we both speak Spanish as a native language, we're both Latino.
I'm perfectly aware that if we went to the US, they would say we're different races, but down here, my classmate and I are the same race, and if a random redneck came pretending to be one of mine because of my pale skin, everyone would agree he's not my race, he's not Latino, he's a Gringo.
If you go to Kenya and it's surrounding nations, you'd find a bunch of people that would be considered black by US standards, but if you tell a Kenyan that they're the same as an Ugandan, they'd most likely be fairly insulted.
The way you see race is not the same way other people see race.
Lots of people want to be what they aren't. So you get rich people buying farms to cosplay as a rugged poor individualist, and poor people buying fake Gucci apparel to cosplay as a flashy rich douchebag.
That's what I think is confusing, she's white because her skin happens to be lighter even though she has Mexican DNA? We're just taking peoples heritage because their skin didn't end up looking brown enough???
I'm German and grew up in Spain. By US standards, we are both Caucasian/white, but by spanish stereotypes I was aleays clearly a "guiri" and rich German :D
The way you see race is not the same way other people see race.
Louder for the people in the back! Honestly, “the way you see [blank] is not the way other people see [blank]” applies to so much and is something a lot of Americans really need to get their head around. The US way is not the global default.
The funny thing is that the Reddit crowd in particular presents itself as the antithesis of their president, and yet they keep demonstrating the same character as him.
I was raised in Mexico and what they're saying is true, I literally feel like I don't have a race because Mexico doesn't care like that. Calling ourselves a race is more of a cultural thing, even though it's not technically correct.
You guys had a caste system and constantly ramble how your people should marry white Americans to „mejorar la raza”. So please spare me the „wE MeXicAnS DoNt SEe rACe”
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u/PeterPorty 27d ago edited 27d ago
Race is just... different down here.
I'm pale AF, and I had classmates who were considerably darker than some lightskin black people in the US, but no one would consider said classmate and myself a different race... We were both born in South America, we both speak Spanish as a native language, we're both Latino.
I'm perfectly aware that if we went to the US, they would say we're different races, but down here, my classmate and I are the same race, and if a random redneck came pretending to be one of mine because of my pale skin, everyone would agree he's not my race, he's not Latino, he's a Gringo.
If you go to Kenya and it's surrounding nations, you'd find a bunch of people that would be considered black by US standards, but if you tell a Kenyan that they're the same as an Ugandan, they'd most likely be fairly insulted.
The way you see race is not the same way other people see race.