HOME | DD
Irrel β LIAB - Latina
Published: 2008-08-24 07:41:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 10017; Favourites: 239; Downloads: 84
Redirect to original
Description
True story. I always get weird looks when I go to get tacos."Clearly too white to be latina" but er... I AM.
So, I half-assed this. It's way too late for me to be drawing, let alone inking. *falls asleep*
Related content
Comments: 204
A mi me ocurre lo mismo, soy muy blanca pero naci en sudamerica! I'm proud to be latinamerican
π: 0 β©: 0
The funniest thing is being 100% Mexican and getting the same facial expressions from people.
π: 0 β©: 0
i know the feeling. i am half-cuban and half-german.....i am usually light skinned but can tan super quick.....i get stuff like that alot
π: 0 β©: 0
HAHAHAHA, too funny. I'v e only met two people in person who did not look hispanic at all (one was black and the other white) who spoke perfect spanish to me, Man was I surprised.
π: 0 β©: 0
I'm kind of reversed; I am hispanic but I can't speak a lick of Spanish at all. So people talk to me in spanish and I'm like, "Um...what?"
This makes me laugh. 
π: 0 β©: 0
that's basically the same thing for me! but im not latina... XD
π: 0 β©: 0
Usually something like that happens to me....except it's more like a "foreign people always asking me where am I from and people FROM MY OWN COUNTRY are constantly asking where am I from AS WELL" kind of scenerario -_-U No idea why.
π: 0 β©: 0
omg im like really pale, and when i tell ppl im hispanic thy either laugh or just dont believe me....
π: 0 β©: 0
Ha! Everyone in our neighboorhood speaks spanish, and my brother and I are middle eastern, so everyone thinks he speaks spanish and starts talking to him. He has no idea what they're saying, so my really white (I'm talking freckles and green eyes) step brother translates perfectly. It's pretty funny watching people's faces. They're not sure who's who!
π: 0 β©: 0
ahaha i love this!!! 
*faaave*
the facial expressions are just hilarious! XD
π: 0 β©: 0
A mi me ha pasado varias veces cuando visitΓ© Estados Unidos con mi familia xD
La cosa es que soy mexicana, pero mis padres son latinoamericanos de herencia europea (es decir, racialmente son blancos). Y es por eso que nadie me cree cuando les digo que soy mexicana.
El problema es que muchas personas creen que ser "latino" o "hispano" es como ser de otra raza, aunque en realidad eso es algo mΓ‘s cultural que racial.
Deben dejar de aprender cosas de Hollywood xD
π: 0 β©: 0
your latina! Me too..I'm from puerto Rico.. And You?
π: 0 β©: 1
I get looks like that sometimes. My skin has barely any color to it. Probably all the Northern European in me (Scandinavian(just about every country), Irish(my great-grandfather came directly from Ireland), British, German, etc.) Funny thing is I have Cherokee Indian on both sides and not that far back either.
π: 0 β©: 0
hhhahahaha yo tambien.... most of my friends say they can't tell what i am untill i start talking. XD my pale face screws w/ppl's heads.
π: 0 β©: 0
i know what you mean I'm the whitest person from both sides of my family and there both Mexicans!
π: 0 β©: 0
hate when that happpens. some people think im mexican but im not im puerto rican
π: 0 β©: 0
The exact opposite happens to my family. See my step-father's last name is Bolivar. Yeah, like SimΓ³n BolΓvar, El Libertador. Only problem is that his family's from, get this, NOVA SCOTIA and look every bit the part (pale skin, pale hair, pale eyes). But my mother, who is pure French Canadian, is really dark (dark skin, dark hair, dark eyes). So not only do we get random phone calls where the person on the other line is speaking rapid spanish (which no one in my family understands a word of). But people often assume that my mom is because of her last name and how she looks.
Let's just say I'm thankful for the fact that the only problem I have to deal with is that some people think I can speak French (but that's only if I pronounce my last name correctly, which for simplicity's sack I usually don't).
*reads over comment* Yeah, that right there is why people don't ever ask me to tell a story in real life. I don't shut up. Sorry.
π: 0 β©: 0
As a naturally blonde, green-eyed, pale, 1st language is Spanish, Mexican, I experience this often.
And I must say: YESSSS.
π: 0 β©: 0
Yeah. That happens to me too. Some Hispanic person tries to speak REALLY broken English to me, and I just spare them and start responding in Spanish, and they all look at me like "ΒΏhablas espaΓ±ol?" I'm clearly too white to be Spanish.
π: 0 β©: 0
The expressions in the last two panels cracked me up. He's like "Uhhhh... Huh?" and you're like "What?"
π: 0 β©: 0
my mom gets that all the time. she's an all-american-nebraskan-born-blonde-haired-blue-eyed woman, but she was raised in puerto rico from infancy to about 16. then I always get the look of "you too?" but no, unfortunately I can only respond in german.
π: 0 β©: 0
...Does that mean you wanted them to go? I'm learning Spanish right now in school and am desperately trying to incorporate it into my activities since my family members all speak Chinese.
π: 0 β©: 1
El vendedor de tacos se parece a mi tio.....no de veras si se parece!!! >.>
π: 0 β©: 0
dude... I feel your pain. No one believes I'm of hispanic descent either....
π: 0 β©: 0
What the hell? B-but I know light-skinned and totally blond Hispanic people! *headdesk*
Duuude, I don't trust taco vans... idk why, just don't...
π: 0 β©: 0
LOL My parents are always like, "You should try to speak Spanish to people" and I say "Um...no?" (I'm Taiwanese and do not look like I could speak Spanish for my life. I'm learning in school though.)
π: 0 β©: 0
I know how you feel I'm totally white too (its my dad's fault he's a southern boy) but my mom is Guatemalan the frirst time i ever told anyone at skool one of my friends spill out their milk (it was lunch time and I didn't realize it was that surprising at the time).
π: 0 β©: 0
I love the cute blank expression on your face in this one XD
π: 0 β©: 0
Hola! Yo tambiΓ©n soy Boliviana!
And I also get told I am too white to be latina. Umm... oligarchy >> The first time I meet people who speak in English (Both Europeans and Gringos) they just say that. And sometimes people think I'm Swedish. O-o
Pero ahorita estoy en Peru, asi que me pasa un poco menos.
π: 0 β©: 1
People think I'm German lol
Boliviana de donde?
π: 0 β©: 1
Hasta cuando viviste en Bolivia?
π: 0 β©: 1
No se mucho de eso, pero tengo la impresiΓ³n de que en Estados "Latino" significa "Mexicano" y por ende ser moreno y bajito. No saben cuan equivocados estΓ‘n. Yo se que no parezco Mexicana, vivΓ en Mexico y el consenso era que blanca, pero me pregunto si parezco latina (allΓ‘ al menos)
π: 0 β©: 0
π: 0 β©: 0
I feel your pain. I'm clearly too white to be Filipino... yet I am. *sigh*
π: 0 β©: 0
where I live if you speak spanish everyone assumes your either Purto Rican, Guatamalian, Cuban or Mexican.
Most common assumption is Mexican and Cuban. lol People are VERY steriotypical here
π: 0 β©: 0
That was a good one, I rolled around laughing for a good while after reading this..
π: 0 β©: 0
That happens to me all the time, unfortunately. I grew up in a predominately Cuban neighborhood in a suburb of Miami, and as such, am "culturally latina" (or so says my university's student affairs office), yet genetically I'm anglo (welsh/dutch/irish). *hugs*
π: 0 β©: 0
*cracks up* I know how that goes. I'm the whitest genuine whitey who ever whited, but somehow I've ended up with a very convincing Japanese accent, so whenever I open my mouth over here in front of a stranger (or, better yet, behind them, for the old turn-and-double-take), eyes start a-poppin'.
π: 0 β©: 1
With Japanese, it must get even funnier
π: 0 β©: 1
It's a pain on the phone, though, because when I call computer tech support or stuff like that, I'm perfectly accented but have no idea what they're talking about and keep going, "Huh? Huh? Bwuh?" Generally they're increasingly confused and start speaking very clearly as if to a disabled person until they hear my name, and then they go "OHHH" :0 and try to transfer me to the English helpline...
π: 0 β©: 0
| Next =>