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Why do people love latinas so much? I’m jealous of them.

When Latina girls embrace their Hispanic roots and proudly talk about how Latino shows and heros means a lot of them, I get jealous. I mean the culture is beautiful and I wish I was Latina. I’m jealous of Jenna Ortega because she’s a beautiful Latina and she always brags about how proud she is of being a Latina. Same with Camilla Cabello. My two former best friends are Hispanic and I’ve always been jealous of their Hispanic roots and culture. I’m just plain old white and we have no culture. I know my grandpa on my dad side has Irish and German decent, grandma had polish, English and Turkish decent and my moms side I don’t know much. My grandma (moms mom) who I live with, also has Russian roots in her. Grandpa has Scottish roots.

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Lucyy · 22-25, F

Bro what 💀💀 not a white person complaining that they aren't an underprivileged race lmao. And literally all of the places you listed have culture. Did you even bother to look up their histories before complaining lol? Ireland, especially, has a LOT of culture, and many Irish people embrace it and are proud of it. This is such a silly thing to be upset over. Instead, be glad you don't have to face the discrimination that so many Hispanic people face DAILY just because you "think it would be cool" to be them smh

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Lucyy · 22-25, F

@LaylaTheTallGirl 1. not all Hispanic people are gorgeous. Let's not fetishize an entire race lol. There are less attractive people among Hispanics, just like any other group of people
2. If your best friends are Hispanic and telling you that you should feel lucky you don't face the racism they do, and your takeaway is still just "But I want to be", there's an even bigger problem here. Listen to your friends who ACTUALLY live as and experience that oppression. You go on and on about the struggles you face as a tall girl, as someone with autism, as someone who's blunt. Respectfully, you are not the best at dealing with bigotry. with your personality, especially, being white is a gift. If you can't handle someone calling you 6 foot, or someone disliking attributes that come with being autistic, you could not handle what Hispanic people face daily. And you shouldn't have to- nobody's should, but society is racist
3. Yes, you are entitled to an opinion. But "I want to be Hispanic because they're pretty" when Hispanics face so much oppression and abuse is ridiculous and the height of a privileged, ignorant comment tbh.
4. If you looked up the histories of places your family came from, and your takeaway was "white people have no culture", then you didn't look into it or you came to a blatantly incorrect conclusion.

LaylaTheTallGirl · 22-25, F

@Lucyy why are you making me feel bad for wanting to be non white? Stop criticizing me goddamn it!

Lucyy · 22-25, F

@LaylaTheTallGirl And that's exactly what I'm saying. You can't take criticism. Therefore you could not handle what minorites face. You just proved my point.
I see no use in continuing this conversation, anyway, since it's an impossible circumstance, anyway. You will never be Latina, so my best advice to you would be to embrace what you are and stop always being upset over what you aren't.
Have a nice day.

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Abwiee · 22-25, F

@LaylaTheTallGirl You just proved her point, though? She criticized you/gave feedback, and you didn't take it well. How would you be able to handle blatant discrimination that minorities face if you can't even handle criticism about that? You struggle to deal with the criticism you face as a non-minority, as is. It's not rude to say you wouldn;t be able to handle facing oppression- because nobody should have to. But the fact of it is, it would not work well with who you are as a person. You are the race that you are, that won;t change, and there is no point in being upset over it. Be grateful for what you have- one of which is a life without systematic oppression.