oso
Nombre, I think a lot of us are on the same wave length right now. If my girlfriend is with other Latinas, everyone always assumes she too is Latina. But if it's just the two of us, people think she's Filipina just as often as Latina. She hates this and makes a point to let them know she is MEXICAN. At work if a native Spanish speaker comes in and overhears me speaking Spanish to one of my co-workers, they always ask me where I'm from. My co-workers get a kick out of it so they always answer for me: "El es de Chile pero habla como un Mexicano no? And they buy it. Every time. Which, unlike my girlfriend, I like. I like that people can't peg me just by looking at me. Even while traveling on the "young tourist circuit," people always assume I am Canadian before American. The truth is, as we grow older and become much more interested in transnational sub-cultures than ethnic/nationalistic culture, guessing someone's ethnicity isn't that easy of a thing. (just count the many people let down at my blog over my whiteness.)
[2005-01-28 23:27:25]

tumbleweed
mmm! thanks for getting the conversation started :) I guess what bugs me most about the question is that it's the very first thing people want to know about me, and many times the only thing. I don't mind the question if it's asked by someone I've been conversing with for longer than say five minutes. And as proud as I am of my ethnicity and heritage, it's not the only thing that defines me...I am a woman, a daughter, a sister, independent, fierce and a tumbleweed first and foremost ;)
[2005-01-31 12:38:38]

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