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Claims to be a white girl from Massachusetts

posted 4 years ago by kwestmo (4283)
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rather than a Spanish white girl. Doesn't she know Spaniards are white? Or that Spain is in Europe?

South Americans are brown.

[–] BourbonKing (5700) 4 years ago

I've met Spaniards browner than me and I have indigenous ancestry. But Spaniards as well as most Mediterranean peoples absolutely HATE being called brown. It really shows how much Western media has ingrained a sort of caste system in their feeble little minds that the lighter your skin is the higher station of life you deserve to be set in.

You find this same phenomenon in North America amongst caucasian people who use the term White Trash and usually associate it with people they fee superior too.

[–] TimMC (9143) 4 years ago

Bigot much? LOL

[–] kwestmo (4283) 4 years ago

To be clear are you responding to me or BourbonKing? I would guess BourbonKing.

[–] BourbonKing (5700) 4 years ago

Um no, I'm describing the socially ingrained Bigotry I experienced from Spaniards who fear being called brown, as well as Italians and Greeks when I traveled around the Mediterranean. There was a constant underpinning of hatred for all things Black African as well.

[–] Stratego (29537) 4 years ago

So a bigot you are.

[–] rocklyn80 (659) 4 years ago

aren't Mediterraneans generally referred to as Olive-Skinned?

[–] BourbonKing (5700) 4 years ago

That's the word often used but there are Europeans with Brown skin. Olives are mostly green imho.

[–] Stratego (29537) 4 years ago

You are absolutely clueless. All Europeans are considered white over here. It's ethnicity that matters more.

[–] BourbonKing (5700) 4 years ago

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[–] Stratego (29537) 4 years ago

Here in Europe Spaniards are considered white but more importantly European, because that's what they are. What you're describing is an US thing.

[–] kwestmo (4283) 4 years ago

Wow! You are agreeing with me while arguing with me.

[–] Stratego (29537) 4 years ago

I didn't even respond to you.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

My wife is of Italian/Maltese descent and she has never cared about being called brown.

[–] liscarkat (17114) 4 years ago

She is obviously Caucasian. But who cares? It's not a big deal, and she should just ignore anybody who thinks it is.

[–] Ripkens25 (1956) 4 years ago

The thing is....she hitched her wagon onto Alec Baldwin and has been enjoying the celebrity and attention that comes with it. They rub everyone’s faces in how perfect they and their family are...and they portray a certain image. Part of that image is “Hilaria” being a young, exotic Spanish yoga instructor (to the point where she even fakes an accent...and purposely struggles with easy words like “cucumber”). If she chooses to play that role....and chooses to be in the celebrity spotlight...she’d better be ready to get called out on her bs. It goes with the territory.

[–] kwestmo (4283) 4 years ago

Alec , is that you?