You’re not an idiot and that story is hilarious. Thanks for sharing it!
If it makes you feel any better, not all Latinos are Mexican, and even Mexicans can’t accurately recognize other Mexicans. I’m descended from Sicilians, so I’m seasonally dark and my dad was dark AF*. When we lived in California, we were regularly spoken to in Spanish by Mexicans and other Latinos who were surprised that we didn’t speak Spanish and in fact were the whitest dark people they had ever met.
*Fun Fact: my paternal grandfather was an asshole and as racist as he was dark (very). Jokes on him - I got my whole genome sequenced and we have a ton of gene variations strongly correlated with African populations. I’m around 25% African by gene frequency distribution, about 10% North and about 15% sub-Saharan African. I’m at least 15% “black”. Hah! Fuck you, Grandpa!
Ah I posted it but under my own comment like an idiot.
You’re not an idiot and that story is hilarious. Thanks for sharing it!
If it makes you feel any better, not all Latinos are Mexican, and even Mexicans can’t accurately recognize other Mexicans. I’m descended from Sicilians, so I’m seasonally dark and my dad was dark AF*. When we lived in California, we were regularly spoken to in Spanish by Mexicans and other Latinos who were surprised that we didn’t speak Spanish and in fact were the whitest dark people they had ever met.
*Fun Fact: my paternal grandfather was an asshole and as racist as he was dark (very). Jokes on him - I got my whole genome sequenced and we have a ton of gene variations strongly correlated with African populations. I’m around 25% African by gene frequency distribution, about 10% North and about 15% sub-Saharan African. I’m at least 15% “black”. Hah! Fuck you, Grandpa!