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“I am half White, half Mexican and it’s a strange dichotomy to be in that position.”
September 26, 2022
Daniel G.
"The family structure is a lot different. I am half white, half Mexican, and it’s a strange dichotomy to be in that position because the cultures are different. Sure, there are some similarities, but overall, the differences are big.
I really like how (a Hispanic) family is very tight and the community is more of a requirement and integral to life. It just seems like there is more togetherness. I don’t know how to explain it, but I really like that. I grew up in a tiny town with two thousand people, and I was the minority, but I looked white. You know I would hear jokes – racial jokes of all different races, and I could easily get mad and be negative about it. But when you talk to people, normally, I think they understand better how something can be offensive or not offensive.
I didn’t grow up in a huge Latino environment, just with my family. Most of my family is in Mexico right now. I did a lot of minority camps growing up. I would go down to Mexico in the summertime and the winter. It was just a completely different feeling."
"La estructura familiar es muy diferente. Soy mitad blanco, mitad mexicano y es una extraña dicotomía estar en esa posición porque las culturas son diferentes. Claro, hay algunas similitudes, pero en general, las diferencias son grandes.
Realmente me gusta cómo la familia (hispana) es muy unida y la comunidad es más un requisito y una parte integral de la vida, parece que hay más unión. No sé cómo explicarlo, pero me gusta mucho. Crecí en un pueblito de dos mil habitantes y yo era la minoría, pero solo que me veía blanco. Algunas veces escuchaba los chistes; chistes raciales y podría enojarme fácilmente y ser negativo al respecto, pero cuando hablas con la gente normalmente, creo que entienden mejor cómo algo puede ser ofensivo o no ofensivo.
No crecí en un gran ambiente latino, solo con mi familia, la mayoría de mi familia está en México en este momento. Participe en muchos campamentos de minorías mientras crecía, iba a México en el verano y en el invierno era una sensación completamente diferente."
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