1. " Ooh! I didn't know you were Spanish!"
I'm not.
2. "But you speak Spanish, though."
Yeah, but I'm not from Spain...
3. "Oh, you speak Mexican!"
*sigh*
4. "You don't look Mexican."
5. "You don't look Puerto Rican."
6. "If you're Hispanic, where's your accent?"
7. I could kill for some Mexican food right now.
" Taco Bell? Eeehhh?"
Maybe you didn't hear what I said. Mexican food; not Ex-lax.
8. ...Latinx...
"You spelled Latino wrong."
Except that's not what I was trying to spell. But thank you for attempting to catch my spelling errors...
9. "Are you legal?"
Just don't. To be frank, unless you're Immigration Control, it really isn't any of your business.
10. "OMG, DO YOU SPEAK SPANISH?"
Oh, um...
*Startled af*
11. "OMG, SAY SOMETHING IN SPANISH!"
*Fearfully screams in Spanish*
12. "Where are you from?"
Oh, I'm from Holly Ridge, North Carolina.
"No. Where are you really from?
13. "Hey, I want to practice my Spanish. Can we only talk in that, please?"
Yeah, let's digress from the casual flow of conversation so you can practice basic vocabulary as you attempt to tell me how your AP Biology class went entirely in Spanish.
14. "Since you're Hispanic and all, does that mean you hate Trump?"
Um...um....
Yes.
Okay...no?
15. *For those with English-Spanish equivalent names*
"So what's your name?"
Jorge.
"Oh! So, George?!"
No..."Jorge"...
"But in English, it's George."
Thank you for telling me. It's not like I knew that already. But given that "Jorge" is on my birth certificate, I prefer to be called by that name.
"But it means George."
*T R I G G E R E D *
16. “You don’t like hot sauce?! But you’re Hispanic, though…”
17. “You guys must all be pretty awesome at soccer, right?”
It’s the most popular sport in the world…so it’s not just us, FYI.
18. “In America, we speak English.”
Good for you, except I don’t remember asking you if you did. So please allow me to exercise my basic right to free speech and freedom of expression. It would be golden if you don’t infringe on that, too. Thank a bunch.
19. “Doesn’t your family eat tacos like, all the time?”
No…just, no.
20. “Latinos/Hispanics are prejudiced against the LGBTQ community.”
Not true at all. I’ll have you know that my Mexican father is 100% supportive of who I am. So please, cut it out with the generalizing.
