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They want you to be the expert on every kind of Latino from Cubans to Puerto Ricans to Mexicans. Like all of the Latinidad in the world can be limited to one language and one culture. Meanwhile, they have no idea that you’re just making up shit as you go along,”
“Besides, you’re not Latina Latina. You’re, I don’t know, a toned-down Latina. That’s different.”
She’d always told us that people who hurt us don’t deserve our tears.
suffered a whole new identity crisis. I was constantly scolded by strangers who would look at my brown skin and not understand why my Spanish was limited. It didn’t matter to them that we spoke English at home because my dad was trying to learn the language. Instead, they told me in English, “Your parents should be ashamed of themselves.”
A gift is a gift, and you should always be grateful for anything someone gives you out of love. The day you tell someone what to give you is the day you no longer get gifts out of love, but rather obligation.
