Mexican, but don’t enjoy Taco Bell
Eric Vazquez, Baltimore, MD. When I meet new people I’m always asked where I’m from. I get asked if I was born in Mexico, I...
I thought you’d be something else?
Natilee Pinedo, Chino, CA. Whenever I tell someone that I am a hundred percent Mexican, I always get a look as if I am telling...
My race card is my racecar
Finn Hurtado, Eugene, OR. I am biracial, half Mexican and half white. I don’t have a racial group I identify with or feel proud to...
So, I’m scared because I’m “white”
Mike R. CA. Just some shower thoughts. It occurred to me that while I am fully aware that most people really DGAF, the mass proliferation...
“You’re really white for a Mexican”
Ileana Serrano, Sacramento, CA. Whenever people try and guess my “race”, I usually get different responses, but they’re always followed by “mixed with white”. My...
You’re condescending, I speak English too.
Jorge Alvarez, Salt Lake City, UT. One of the things that I find very annoying is when people say “Hola” right off the bat, “Si”...
“Garcia”? Are you Mexican or Colombian?
Alexandra Garcia, Long Island, NY. My father emigrated from Spain in 1974, and we have been raised to be proud of our Spanish heritage and...
Not Mexican, Hispanic, brown, just human
Marco Perez, Oakland, CA. I choose these six words because this is how I feel about the relationship between me and my race. I believe...
Yesterday, I was other. Today: Multiracial.
Walter Thompson-Hernandez, Los Angeles, CA. I am a native of Los Angeles, California and the proud son of an African American father and a first-generation...
Asian nephew, but wife’s not Asian?!
James K., Riverside, CA. I’m a white male and my wife is half Mexican and half white, but her sister is half Thai because they...
Call Me Mutt: One Doesn’t Fit
Mark Sundermann Holt, MI This morning’s story about Mixed Heritage gave me hope. How does one pick from the following? German, Mexican, Dutch, Zapotec, Irish...
I can’t believe you are Vietnamese!
Stephanie Do, San Jose, CA. Whenever I tell people that my ethnicity is Vietnamese, people are usually shocked and then say that I look like...
I’m Mexican Snow White, Wexican, Washingtonian
Hailey M., Sacramento, CA. Growing up I always called myself Mexican even though the color of my skin would have to believe differently.
Born in the U.S., NOT Mexican
Rachel Guerrero, Menifee, CA. I was born and raised in Southern California. My mother was born in Mexico and my father was born here. I...
No, sorry I don’t speak Spanish
Maria (Victoria) Lopez, Moreno Valley, CA. I am a student at Cal Baptist University and am in the class History of Minorities. My professor had...
