I’m afraid of Mexicans.
Charon Winterson Tucson, AZ I’ve always had a fear and hatred of Mexicans and I feel bad for it.
They Joke, I laugh, But Inside..
Mayra Gutierrez Northfield, MN Sometime my friends make Mexican jokes around me and I laugh with them, but sometimes those jokes are truly hurtful and...
I speak Spanish, I ain’t Mexican
Mariel Oak Hill, VA Most people assume that just because I speak Spanish i’m Mexican or Spanish–no, I’m Peruvian.
Mexican men tend to frighten me.
J St. Louis, MO I work at a country club’s kitchen, there we have a great many Mexican men. They always seem far too friendly....
You aren’t what you look like.
Marcus Garcia Moses Lake, WA I’m Mexican but people pretty much never get it right like i get asked if I’m white,greek,persian,middle easter,black(shocked about that...
I am Mexican-American. No, really!
Anna Council Bluffs, IA My dad has a thick accent and looks very Mexican, but can’t speak Spanish. I look and pass as white, but...
Not Mexican enough, Not white enough
Tricia Redlands, CA I am a Mexican American that grew up in a home that did not speak Spanish. Both my mother and father were...
Mexican With White Skin No Spanish
JS CA Brought up to believe my Mexican heritage was secondary to my white heritage. Didn’t learn Spanish, didn’t learn culture. As a young woman...
Raised mixed, married mixed, had mixed.
Alisha Partlow Eugene, OR My mother is red haired, blue eyed Danish/German. My father, dark haired, brown eyed Mexican. I married a man whose biological...
I am not a Mission Mexican
Maria Fuentes San Francisco, CA The beauty about living in San Francisco is that every ethnicity group you can think of has its own community....
I’m brown, no I’m not Mexican.
Cristian Amaya Mountain View, CA Most of the time people in general assume I’m Mexican because of my brownish skin color and because i speak...
Yes im Mexican and also legal
Roberto Union City, CA Just because your Mexican u didn’t cross the border.
Our tears, all the same color.
Jasper LaFortune Corvallis, OR I don’t know what it’s like to be black, or Mexican, or mixed race, or anything but the collection of molecules...
Hispanic name in a rural town
Elena Rodrigues Houghton, MA Living in a small town in the UP of Michigan and having a fairly Hispanic name can sometimes bring out the...
Nice tan, are you a Mexican?
Amanda Kotyuk San Jacinto, CA My father was a cowboy, born and raised on the horse ranches of Melrose New Mexico. He was a mix...
