a very necessary thread that you should read ;
im so angry rn omg LETS GET ONE FUCKING THING STRAIGHT OKAY? YOU ARE LATINO IF YOU WERE BORN IN HERE OR IF YOU LIVED IN HERE AND LIVED ALL THE CRISIS THAT LATINAMERICA HAS GONE THROUGH. +

+ now. if you have never lived here. but you have ascendants that have. then YOU'RE NOT FUCKING LATINO, YOU HAVE A LATINO ASCENDANCY. THOSE THINGS ARE DIFFERENT.
saying that you are latino, while you have never seen all the famine, poverty, illiteracy, oppression that we lived. +

+ dont say that you are latino while you are living in a country that is one of the most powerful in the world, while latin america is moslty third world. thats offensive.
you talk about culture appropriation a lot, but you dont understand that this is too. +

+ !!!! LATINO ASCENDENCY AND LATINO NATIONALITY ARE DIFFERENT THINGS !!!
if you have ascendants that were latino, then you should say that you have a latino ascendancy but you're not latino unless you lived here +

+ and know our history and both the pain and strength that the latin america history represents.
hope this is helpful for you somehow. hope you now know the difference and learn to respect it.

ALSO, you have to open your mind and understand the fact that not every latino looks as you think.
the standards that you have about us, latinos, its not what you think.
there are ppl that have physical characteristics as those standards as well as ppl that doesnt. +

+ the skin color of a latino doesn't make him/her/them less or more latino. you have to understand that. please.
latinos CAN have different skin colours.