(12-07-2023, 08:44 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Mexican racism. I did not know this. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/NlbSz40d8qA?s...i5ZpFo84qu

All Latin American countries have forms of racism that look a lot like ours.  It all dates back to who colonized them and how and why.  Argentina is probably the one exception, because they brutally deported and genocided almost all natives and Africans in the mid 1800s. Uruguay is similar but not as extreme.  But any other country will have tension between different skin pigmentation.  You'll hear stories where a mom who is herself clearly mixed race will tell her daughter to avoid marrying someone darker than her, so the kids can be lighter than the parents and have a better life.  When my wife's ancestors came from Cuba to Miami in the 50s, they weren't surprised or disappointed about the Jim Crow laws they found. The only part that ticked them off was when the white bus driver told them they weren't white and sent them to sit with the blacks. In Cuba they had been white, so that was a surprise.
Now many Latin Americans do not care about that stuff and do their best to ignore it.  But many Latin Americans do care.

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