Not every Latino is brown! We come in every color and sizes.

But latino isnt a race it's an ethnic group. It's a case by case basis, depends on your fam background

As a European, its weird to see that you have to write your Race down on a Test.

Lastly, "Latino" is NOT A RACE!!

I just mark black AND white. Chocolate milk, y'all

I'm Colombian and on a cruise I met a few guys and since I'm so pale, they thought I was caucasian and said "Mexicans can be so lazy, and are stealing our jobs." I was so livid ....... as soon as I said, you know I'm latina right ? They said oh no no , we were just joking ... yeah ok.

I'm a light skinned Mexican/Salvadoreña, with blue eyes, I grew up in California, I definitely could tell that I was given privileges due to my proximity to whiteness, until moving to Idaho, then I suddenly could feel that everyone knew I was Latina.

There isnt "race". Everybody is mixed, include europeans. Imagine "latinos". US is the weirdest country in world...

Reading these comments is depressing, it’s 2018 and people still don’t know the difference between ethnicity and nationality. It’s the saddest thing really. ( Insert country here) is not an ethnicity, it is your nationality because either that is where you were born or that is the country your parents are from. Ethnicity is your blood line, if you don’t know your ethnicity, take a dna test.

Before speaking about racism latinoamericanos must have to stop discrimination....

I am a pale Caucasian Latino and in contrast with my darker skinned Latino cousins, I have noticed an accumulation of micro scopic benefits for appearing white

As a light skinned mexican I havent gone through any racism so i apologize for the people have gone through that i truly dont understand what it is to go through racism as im inexperienced in that field

Colorism is sad 😢 and is very common in Mexico.

Most Latinos act like they can’t be Black or White. I feel like language doesn’t really define a race. Im a Dominican with thick hair and Brown skin. When people ask me my race I simply say Black, but when I’m asked to go into depth, I then say “Afro Latin or Dominican”.

I'm from Argentina, my grandmothers was from Belgium and Italy, my grandfathers was from Denmark and Spain... Latinoamerica is a great salad of races

You can br latina or latino and have the darkest skin, brown eyes, and brown hair AND you can have pasty white skin and have blonde hair with blue eyes and still be 100% Latino.

Can we agree the green one is the limón though? We need to settle that

My family is from Panama. I am Black. I am Panamanian-American. They are Black-Panamaians, Black-cubans and etc.

Im Brazilian and my teacher thought that I was a white american but the second she found out that i was Latino she automatically started making my time in her class a living nightmare

My mom is blonde hair blue eyes born in cuba, her ancestors were spaniard and north european. My dad is from peru and has tan skin black hair brown eyes. Sometimes I get so sad that I don’t look stereotypical spanish even though I know my skin doesn’t define my background. It just does affect my self esteem bc I dont feel the way I look. I know that I am latina and proud of it. I came to this video and was reminded of it. Its difficult in society to ignore the fact that many many people forget there are white latinos. I’ve hated being white for nearly a decade. I just hope I can grow to build my esteem.

Is this the Truman show? I totally relate. Not white enough for the white kids at school and no Latina enough for the Latinos in school. I’m so glad that this is being discussed. It’s crazy how racist we are even within our own culture.

Mannnn as a mexican with european, african and indigenous features I can totally say that I benefit from white privilege. I lived in Detroit when I was 10-12 years old, and people wouldnt believe me when I told them I didnt speak english AND that I was born and raised in Mexico. ON THE OTHER SIDE, Mexico is super racist. Like super. There´s still blackface going on, indigenous people are treated like the lower class, and when a baby is born with blue eyes he or she is the most beautiful baby on the world and every other kid from that family is compared to that light eye baby.

Not every Latino is the same! And we stand for our Rights! 🇲🇽❤️

As a white Latino I have always been in a limbo my whole life. I embrace my culture and know the language almost perfectly (reading, writing and speaking). I even only speak Spanish at home to my parents and family. But when I go out into the real world I’m automatically seen as a white guy, even by other hispanics despite my name being Pedro. There’s been various times when I interact with other Latinos who are like my parents in the sense that their English accents are thick and don’t really feel comfortable with English and would rather talk in Spanish. So I talk to them in Spanish and they keep replying in English and they never switch over. And like half the time some tell me that my Spanish is good for a white person and then get mindfucked when they find out my name is Pedro and I’m a Latino

If your skin is white u benefit of getting treated better

My life story, too Hispanic for white people and too white for Hispanic people. The in between is weird place. In America it's really nice and i'm fine in the eyes of white Americans because my white skin isn't threatening but the minute a word of Spanish leaves my mouth I automatically become the "other."

The lighter the Latino the more privilege we get

so then latinos are mixed? because i know that my grandma is part indian but me and my mom are still white looking, and my dad has darker skinned parents? so would i be mixed?

people would tell me “ if your Mexican speak Spanish right now” like what does that have to do with the color of my skin. Si hablamos español, no perfecto pero si es español

There are also black latinos

I love this video! It was well put together, engaging, and informative! The host was empathetic yet assertive! Keep it up!

Butt she is hella brown not really light skin imo 😂

This is so true! And even more so when you travel to areas that don't have much experience with latinos. I'm a white Venezuelan, now living in South Korea. Foreigners get treated differently here and the quality of that treatment is very much linked to the colour of your skin. For me, I pass as a typical white foreigner... I just look so European, it's always automatically assumed and I've had a much more positive experience than my Afro-Latino friends (who are assumed to be African-American) and Asian-Latino friends (who are assumed to be Chinese, Philippino, etc.) because of that assumption at all. The first step in this situation is education. When a country has so little experience about the other world, it's basing it's ideas on what they consume in the media.... And, let's be honest, american media is not the best source to be using when forming ideas about cultures and races.

In Latin America, unlike the US, race doesn't divide us culturally but social classes do. Latin America is first and foremost Classist. Still it is true that in higher social classes people tend to be whiter and of higher European descent. However there are tons of poor white Latinos especially in countries like Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil and these people are discriminated against because they are part of the lower social economical class and have a different culture, way of talking (which they share with other poor mestizos and afro latinos) that differentiates them from the dominant group. So it is not right to talk about white privilege in the case of Latin America where social class is a more of a determining factor than the colour of your skin when it comes to discrimination.

hey, I'm so confused, I'm from spain, my family have european features and my dad and sister are blonde with green eyes, but, I, in the other side, have dark skin features due to my great-grandmother being a black cuban and although I have dark skin features and afro hair I don't know what to identify. can somebody help me? also I've been pretty discriminated by my looks which sucks to be honest

Love this! You are awesome, inspired, full of TRUTH! Thank you so much for making this. I will be sharing.

Im Proud to be Afro Colombiano i used to get picked on by most of the mexican kids when i was growing up in LA and i grew a bitter hate to most white latinos but my parents made sure i kept humble and held no grudges "ignorance kills the spirit and love in your heart"

I'm a pale skinned argentinian living in the United States. I can't fit in with white non-hispanic americans because I'm latina and speak spanish but also can't fit in with the majority hispanic community of mexicans living here because I look white. Maybe someday race, ethnicity, language, and skin color won't define a person but rather their personality, compassion, knowledge, etc. will. Until then, I'll just keep trying my best to make friends through my personality traits and not my looks. And maybe someday white privilege will cease to exist, but for now I will fight to prove to those who deny it that white privilege does in fact exist and needs to end because it's absurd to think that skin color plays a role in what you are worth as a human being. Skin color means nothing, it's just skin, and where you are from and what you speak doesn't define you as a person either. It's what you do, what you say, and what you think that defines you. Let's end all of this unnecessary discrimination that some people have to deal with on a daily basis. Let's unite this hella divided world once and for all.

1:10 See Brazil over there? They're not Hispanic but are still Latinos So, WHEN I SAY IM LATINA, WHY DO PEOPLE ASSUME IM HISPANIIIIC

Puros "latinos" comentando en ingles jajaja

I am white American and my Mexican husband is white and green eyed, people treat him as a white European decent until he opens his mouth and the accent comes through or spanish and spanglish.. I have seen the racist look on their face!! oh so my Husband is fine as long as they did not know he's Mexican!?!? but as soon they realise he's not their idea of white then he's suddenly not good enough..!?!?! we live near Houston Texas..

Dude we’re Native American and White and some of us are Black and White it just depends, you only benefit if you look white imo

at the same she's calling European people's skin ''pasty'' with a ewww expression on her face but gets offended if others judge darker skinned people?..double standards ..someone tell me how this girl is not a hypocrite??

Im from Ecuador So my mom comes from Spanish (white) and african ancestry. My father comes from Spanish (white) and native Indian (incan) ancestry. My appearance make people think I am Filipino. So what is my ethinicity? Help me please I'm confused.

I really liked this video!! I love your personality. My ex-was Mexican American and his uncle said I would give him AIDS. I was 14...

It is the 21st century and this world still has issues with skin color. We all are from the same planet, cook the meals with fire, drink water, and breath the same air. People need to get rid off that chip over their shoulders and start thinking how to help each other to survive as a espicie.

im white and I've always been told im not Latina enough bc of my race by other Latinos. It's quite sad to see how even in our own communities there still is a racial bias

It’s weird I’m from Spain ( therefore European) and I visited the US last summer and the Latinos there didn’t consider me white when I identify as such. I have dark eyes and hair but pale pasty skin and I’m 6’1”. The “white” Americans didn’t really comment anything about my “race” or anything so I can’t really compare views. Can someone share their thoughts?

We can't benefit from something that doesnt exist

Yea Im pretty white and Mexican

Wait why is my leg so pale and my face is a little bit tan?

My husband is half Puerto Rican, half Mexican, so my daughter is half Hispanic. Growing up it was so easy for me to just check the white box. It didn’t take me till a survey asked me to explain my daughters race, I asked my husband, wha should I put? Is she white? I selected white because the other options didn’t fit her, then it asked for her ethnicity so I put Hispanic.

I love my fellow Latino brothers and sisters.We are a diverse group of ppl who have one thing in common that is the love we have for our Latinos roots. It doesn't matter what our DNA racial make-up is but what is in our souls and the connection we have culturally is the core of what holds us together as one. We have shown the whole world that we are unique ppl. Latino pride all the way!

SHAKIRA HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN BLONDE !?!?!??!?!? I am mind-blowed

My dad is an immigrant from the Bay Islands in Honduras. When people ask me if I'm latina its always kind of confusing...I have an English last name because my dad has some English ancestors as well as Native, African, and Middle Eastern. My dad can speak Spanish but English was his first language. My complexion is medium/olive and most people assume I'm Italian or some kind of Mediterranean. I usually say that I am half Caribbean because that makes the most sense to me as my paternal grandma is from the Cayman Islands as well. But my dad IS Honduran technically. I dont know, categorizing people is difficult.

Do you actually need to give this type of info for exams, in US? How is that relevant for the review of a paper?

You know what makes me mad being told I "act white" because I don't act like a stereotypical mexican and it's not coming from white people it's coming from other Mexicans. Smh.😧

i dont think its as simple as black and white so to speak. the u.s. needs categories for mixed people, and thats the main problem. we cant put majority of latinxs into those bubbles provided since most of us are mixed, and whether we pass or not is often subjective to who's being asked. we do have colorist privledge thats true, but white racial privledge is really just there to those that are white or 100% undeniably passing.

Absolutely the perfect video!! So so important xxxx

This was a fantastic video that helped me understand things I've been struggling with since I was a teenager with. Also, limón is the green one.

I always tell people proudly that latinos come in ever shade and colour no exceptions we are all definitely a mix ❤️💯👌🏼

yess i needed this !!!! latinos come in all shades and most of us are mixed race trii racial meaning three races in each majority indivisual! we are just awesome people shout out my cubans Dominicans venezuelen panamanians mexicans and ect.

0:13 That happened to me when I was in the 4th grade, they were doing a very important test and I had no idea what to pick so I just skipped it cuz I didn’t have time for that

I am a second generation Mexican American and I never experienced racism

As an Argentinian I thought white privilige wasnt real. Then I moved to europe and noticed how everytime I crossed a border the police would ignore me (i look like a german), and ask a LOT of questions to the black people. so while white privilige doesnt affect people that behave properly (aka, if you are black, yeah you will have to answer a lot more questions but if you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear and are not in disadvantage), it is certain that its easier for white people to get away with petty crimes, like skipping a line, or jumping the subway barrier

so depending on your proximity to whiteness you have a different set of privileges

I'm a really really really white woman from Colombia, like whiter than Taylor Swift, and although I've seen some people as white as me, there's definitely more tan people... And for years I've never use dresses or skirts or shorts because everytime I do I get comments about my skin color... 🤷 I'm trying to get over that insecurity but this is a really cool subject to talk about

I am the same color as the girl on the video and my hair is also curly. I’m really confused what I am, I have %4 black and a lot of Native American and some Spanish

That “race” thing always confuses me because I don’t identify with any of these !! Even though Latino/Hispanic is not considered a race it makes it easier to choose that.

I am a Mestizo and I consider myself privileged and I certainly don't pass as white in Colombia. I think most racist attitudes are directed at poor people and yes, there are many stereotypes against black and indigenous looking people in the country, but so are there stereotypes against white people from the countryside. It is never as radical as in the U.S. In fact, Colombia shows more and more African-looking people in the media, like Claudia Lozano or many football players. Many national singers and athletes are black, as well as beauty pageant contestants. They are venerated by all social classes. Latin America had its own social development different from the U.S. and I believe that your transposing U.S. rhetorics on a non-U.S. American society. Here, every single person who is not part of the political caste can't be considered privileged. Just a handful of people has the means to afford luxurious lifestyle or being heard by the state. Those in the bottom of society come in all shapes and colours. I am privileged, because I was one of the few Colombians who had access to higher education and be a graduate. I was lucky and most people who are as lucky as me, are obvious Mestizos.

When we take test and it ask what race we are they always had Hispanic or Latino

Great video! I feel the 1st action we can take if you don’t speak Spanish is to learn so we can have dialogue

This was wonderful. Great job.

Thank you so much for speaking about this because unfortunately many of us in our community act like racism and colorism do not exist in the latin community

According to the US immigration services my race is white, and my ethnicity is hispanic or latino. but when I filled out the form to become a US citizen I chose race: american indian (native american), and ethnicity: hispanic or latino. I went to my interview and they looked at me, like really? american indian... and I look at them like I don't know which one to choose, and they changed it to white.

To answer your question,(some) Yes.

What exactly is the privilege? I watched the whole video and she never mentioned on privilege without a qualifier.

Well if you’re reading.... I’m black and not Latino but a lot of my friends are and my school is super diverse. So, we’ve been uniting our different communities as much as possible from sitting together at lunch to performances in our schools international day. I’m the president of our gospel choir and one of my friends is the president of Sabor Latino and she’s been putting together a number of Latin American dances for the international day performance. I have gospel choir performing a song by Kirk Franklin that is heavily Salsa inspired and sabor latino will have a few couples dance while we sing. I’m super excited for it. Sabor Latino also our together an “undocumented stories” lunchtime discussion in which people shared stories of their life as an immigrant documented and undocumented before and after DACA. We also passed out flyers on how to stay safe from harassment and how to contact our state senators. I speak Spanish and I’ve been volunteering as an interpreter in lots of places and one day I want to teach a Sunday school class in Spanish if I have the time. Senior year is crazy but college is gonna get even better!!

Since most Latinos are mestizos, can we say we are mixed? By the way, Shakira's alanis morissette phase was the most interesting.

Wow!! I love you. Best video ever watched on KZfaq

I find it sooooooo weird that in the U.S you seem to have that "check your race"-thing on every paper. I get it's for statistics & stuff, but eh... In my country it is straight up illegal to ask a persons race, even in any administrative concept, just because some day someone might misuse the data. It makes certain things harder, like not having a data base about people who might be socially deprived because of their ethnicity, but there are other means to make sure that indigenous people and other minorities share equal rights with the majority of the population. Like... You think it doesn't make institutional racism easier to have someone's ethnicity out like that? I don't get it.

Well my friend doesn't speak English very well so people at my school thinks it's ok to talk her so every day I make sure I'm by her side to help her out

My siblings are lighter and I’m dark enough to know I’m Spanish and they haven’t experienced any discrimination and I’m happy that they haven’t but also kinda wish they understood on some level.

Colorism and racism are two different things because people of the same race can participate in colorism. Which is giving more priveledges to lighter skinned people. People should feel beautiful in their own skin and the black is beautiful movement is something I fully support. It's not enough for black people to feel beautiful, the whole world must acknowledge their beauty is valid and confront racism and colorism. It's also super horrible to think a person is less human because their skin is darker. Yeah I read the comments section. Damn, some of you have issues deeply connected to colorism and colonialism.

Im half colombian half polish. Im darker than my white friends but im lighter than my other POC friends. I constantly dont know who I am, ive been bullied and treated poorly because of my colombian side but I 100% benefit from being on the lighter spectrum

I’m Latina too. One time I got mad because there was no “other” option so I checked all of them.

Good video & on point

I'm thankful I grew up in a diverse family with light skinned, dark skinned and all types of expressed melanin, because I grew up knowing this is so normal and it shouldn't matter when making friends and treating them with the same respect I have for my family. Viva la diversidad humana!

I always used to check the “other” box and write in Mestizo (half Native, half European--like many Latinos are). Then I took one of those ancestry.com dna tests and like I’m basically 1/2 Native, 1/4 European, 1/8 Middle Eastern 1/8 African and 100% confused.

My husband is Salvadorian/latino however everyone thinks he is asian soooooo no one bothers him I guess....

So I am lighter skinned but not enough to pass as white (and my facial features and curls give me away too) but my sister has very light skin, mostly straight hair and very European facial features and she gets the short end of the stick sometimes. Hispanics are racist towards her thinking she is white, and white people are racist towards her thinking she’s not totally white or try to be racist with her...so she has defended her friends (and herself) in both situations.

I’m pale af got green eyes and my hair is light brown and I’m Chilena am I latina or white :,)

Why are Americans so obsessed with race and color?

I get the privilege being myself.

"I'M NOT BLACK, I'M TAN" AHAHAHAH IM DEAD SO RELATABLE

My story: I talked to my mom about deinstitutionalization in Chicago when she made an insinuation that a homeless black man was a drug addict. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. I HAVE A B.A.IN PUBLIC POLICY AND AM INTERESTED IN ART, COMEDY, AND COMMUNICATIONS IF YOU’RE EVER HIRING. FLUENT IN SPANISH AND WILLING TO RELOCATE. 💃🏽✨

lets not forget latinos who tink theyre better because their "whiter" or how some of us worship blue green eyes which brings me to an example; me and my friends (latinas) decides to get genetic testing two of them one is brown eyed dark brown haired very pale and the other one is green eyed and dyes her hair blonde ligth skin but a bit tanned, the thing is the "blonde" one was always putting things on facebook like "me a white girl, white latina" and stuff like that and she sometimes casually braged her green eyes and "white-ness", so before we got the test results we were talking what we tougth were gonna get and she told my brown eyed and haired friend "i bet your gonna get like half european and half indiguenous" i dint tougth of it much at the moment but then i started tinking about how just having ligth eyes she subliminally tougth she was whiter and even better because of it, when we got the test my brown eyed and hair friend got 82%european and the rest indiguenous and midle eastern and the blonde one got 56% european 43% indiguenous and a litel african i tink, then she was freaking out a litel because she could not belive that since her eyes were green she would get so litel european cause she was quote whitest latina ever (they're both mexican btw) my point is, its fine to consider yourself white if you are or look it heck i have other hispanic friends who look mixed and they consider themselfs white and its fine cause at least they dont act like theyre better cause of it, however its not fine to act like its your greatest asset or to act like your better then everyone else because your white or "white". ps;i love both of those friends but i dont give a shit i am to honest, i even told the blonde one her acttions and attitude were wrong and i told her why, end of story

I'm a brown latina lol but my adoptive mom (who's white) said she doesn't consider me a different race or ethnicity. It may seem like not the biggest deal but I'm clearly very different and experience the world differently. And it really hurt my feelings, I felt my sense of self being erased. Can anyone relate? Edit: to any one who thinks this is a positive thing, it's not... I find it difficult to articulate precisely why but I know it's not a good thing.

My dad is a white, blonde, green eyed latino and my mom is a tanned skin, brown eyed with dark wavy hair latina. Fun fact, my dad doesn't speak English, only the basic, if you speak to him in English he won't understand. My mom on the other hand is almost fluent in the language. Around July we traveled to the US and an interesting thing I noticed is how differently they treated my dad from my mom. When they approached my dad they wouldn't even hesitate to talk to him in English but with my mom they would. It was so funny seeing their reactions when they heard my dad replying in Spanish or just saying with a strong accent "I don't speak English". I have so many funny stories from all the times we've been there lmaoo.

Would you consider Portuguese as Latina? Because I am mostly Portuguese (from Lisbon Portugal) (My Mom was born there but came to American) and I have always identify myself as a Latina because my tiá identifies as a Latina too.