MEXICAN NOVELAS LIKE LA ROSA DE GUADALUPE AND COMO DICE EL DICHO ALWAYS PORTRAY LIGHTSKIN LATINOS AS RICH BUT THE BROWN ONES AS POOR

colorism is huge in latin america... we complaint about white people being racist but within the same latinamerican community colorism is HUGE... sad but true... example, a couple of years ago in gdl a blonde colored eyed lil girl was seen in the streets asking for money and there was a huge buzz about it for about two weeks her story was in every news network ... where she was from, where her parents were, how many days a week she had spent in the streets asking for money while her mom washed cars at the red light... she was receiving so much help by the authorities and the community... but u see kids all day everywhere asking for a taco... but they're dark skinned... they dnt receive news coverage or help... people just drive by.

What bothers me the most is when people think that Latino is a race and we're supposed to look the same

I think Mitu needs to be aware of this, as well. From what I see, most of Mitu protagonists are light-skinned.

Fernando colunga is the darkest telenovela actor I can recall. and he is always with a light skinned woman

I remembering watching an episode of la rosa de guadalupe about how a light skinned grandmother preferred her blonde granddaughter to the "morenita" one. The only thing "morenita" about the actress was her hair. The Mexican television industry cant cast a dark, indigineous, or afro latino actor or actress as a lead role to save their lives.

the most hurtful thing i experienced was my elderly tia told me and my jewish husband "mira aue blanquita su hija! tiene que tener mas y mejorar la raza." infront of my cousins who were darker. 🙊

It doesn't bother me that novelas are white because there are a lot of white Mexicans but it does bother me that they portray the brown ones as indigenous and poor

THANK YOU for talking about it!!! NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT IT at least not blatantly.

Let’s appreciate dark skin in Mexico please, every skin is beautiful.

not to bring home a black guy? that's straight up racism mitú the term colorism almost softens it

I feel like it’s never going to change. I have seen the recent novelas and nothing has changed. It’s depressing. Also this isn’t just in their TV shows it’s also in the music industry and media like the news.

Duuuuude!!!!! I've been talking about this for a couple of years now. We're Black Latin@s in our family and I'm always pointing this out. That's one of the main reasons I stopped watching them because they don't represent me or my people

Do one on hollywood using white latinos and calling it "diversity" (sophia vergara)

Marimar became very popular in the Philippines in the mid 90s. Thalia visited our country and recorded a Tagalog song. I still love her up to this day.😀

“a light skinned latina like myself” Ummm, sorry but you probably wouldn’t be considered light enough to be casted as a maid... The darkest they’ll go is between the darkest castizo and the lightest mestizo.

ugh this is so real here...I'm Peruvian and I'm more on the white passing side i guess than most typical peruvians...and I've been told some pretty back handed compliments by other latinos like "you're too pretty to be peruvian" or "you don't look indigenous at all" and "you're lucky you didn't come out looking like your dad's side (my dad's family is deeply rooted in the indigenous community)" and its so fucking offensive (pardon my french) because when i for example, braid my hair, i look more native and people also like to point it out as though somehow me trying to connect with my native roots is a bad thing. its not. whats bad is that the only reason i look more european is because my ancestors were rapped and treated terribly. colourism is real and it hurts and we as latinos need to love ourselves for all the different shapes sizes and colours that we come in and demand that our media properly represent us all.

Kat, you certainly could pass as a Native American and you should be proud of that

A lot of those actors are not Mexican couple of them are from different countries

this happens in Southeast Asia as well. You can already tell which status a person has according to their skin color in less than 5 seconds. Sadly, even the new broadcaster has to have light skin to read news on television.

I was just talking about this with someone today! My father is from Mexico, and my mother is 6th/7th generation Mexican/Venezuelan and Spanish. I started watching Mexican telenovelas to help learn Spanish while in college and if you go on Wikipedia you'll find that a lot of the light skinned 'main cast' aren't even Mexican. A lot of them are (light skinned) Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans, or even come from Russia. There's NOTHING wrong with that at all, but I remember my parents use to sometimes watch novels when I was growing up and I didn't look anything like the majority of the cast. I especially hate how the dark skinned characters are usually poor while the lighter skinned characters are portrayed as coming from a more noble background.

This is why I stopped watching novellas.

Omg I am so glad there's a video on this, I thought I was the only that noticed this on Telenovelas!!!

“Light skin Latinos like myself” except they hire people that are just europeans ex. Angelique being French. They aren’t even mixed Latinos because most of the time mixed Latinos don’t look the same as europeans. Being a light skin mixed latina myself I don’t feel represented by the whiteness on screen either because it’s clear my face does not look European and I will never amount to those standards. There is colorism but there is also featurism and racism

Colorism transcends national boundaries, and, in fact, shows that it is not considered a red-flag to stop production of said novelas. In other words, the global market is GEARED to preferring white-passing people than to POC, and even ENCOURAGED by the movers and shakers of the US/Western media complex. If this is not a truer definition of systematic racism/colorism, I don't know what is. SHOUTOUT TO ALL MY BLACK AND BROWN LATINX PEOPLE GRINDING AND PUTTING OUT AWESOME CONTENT VIA INDEPENDENT MEDIA SOURCE LIKE MITÚ 😎

Giiiirl you are SO INDIGENOUS! No tiene un pelo de blanca latina.

I took my 9 month daughter to Mexico two years ago. I was born in Puebla, which people are more darker and shorter. Well, she got so much attention and everyone would look at me weird when I told them she was mine. It's like they didn't believe me. Her white complexion is from her dad that also has Mexican roots, but more European. It's so sad that racism and stereotypes exist everywhere. 😥

This is so true. And even from a young age I was quick to call this bs out, my parents would say because they're whitewashed and Mexicans love light skin .so novelas like those only help to subconsciously breed inner hate when you realize the "beautiful people" they shove down the Mexican people's throats, don't look like you.. good thing I have my parents My mom being super lightskin w green eyes and my dad moreno helped me grow up loving my tan skin and all the other beautiful skin tones!

Thank you for posting this. It's long overdue.

completely true. my mother always mentions how happy she is that im lighter then her. my mom is beautiful and wonderful but it pains me to think that i see skin tones like she does.

Thank god y’all showed this and with AFRO-Latinas! This made my year

light skin Latinas like myself? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

FINALLYYYY SOMEONE SAYS IIIIIT!!! GRACIAAAS

Novelas used to be popular. I think they are losing their sparks. Now mini series are the IN.

You should talk about Native Americans in Latin America

Thanks for discussing this topic. It’s important to spread awareness about this in all cultures so human beings of all shades are represented not just light bright. 💜 much love.

"What can I do to help??" "Vaya limpiar los platos" jajajaja 😂

Huge point made here, I grew up in a home where both my parents never differentiated our friends or partner choices by skin color, my sister dated African-Americans, Afghans, white, brown me and my brothers all dated and brought home friends from all over the world. My Mom's only concern was that they finished all the food in the plate.

"light skin latina like myself" lmao if you're light skinned then I'm literally transparent

Thank you so much for this. We needed this call out, bc a lot of girls do bleach their skin or avoid the sun bc of colorism. Thankfully thay never happened to my sisters(who are both proud to be of darker skin tone) One of them was even encouraged to continue on playing tennis bc of how good she was, and not once did anyone in our family tell her she was too dark or tan. In a life where the two of us was always compared, skin tone never came up. But thats not the same for other families, and people need to realize how toxic it is for the health of their children

Novelas make you feel low self-esteem

you know when telemundo did Celia it was the first time in my life that saw a afro character been the main character, I was so happy because I thought things finally seen to change. we still need more representation tho. in Colombia I'm glad we have a couple of Afro representation like Mabel

As a white mexican, it's often for me to hear people saying like "but she's white, obviously she's prettier" like NO dude, skin color doesn't relate to being beautiful or not.

I'm brazilian and loved novelas while growing up. We have a lot of our own novelas, but we also imported from around Latin America, mainly Mexico. Marimar also aired here, but I think the most famous mexican novela is "María la del Barrio", which is named here as "Maria do Bairro", and made Thalia widely famous in Brazil. But I think my favorite is "La Usurpadora". And about the whitewashing in novelas, is just like she said, most actors are white, and when there are people of color they were always relegated to certain stereotypical roles. I have stopped watching public broadcast TV in the last 5 years or so, but from time to time, whenever I turn the TV on I noticed a slight increase in actors of color on brazilian novelas. Things are changing, but slowly.

At least here In the United States people of color/indigenous are able to move up the social economic latter with hard work and persistence. In most LATM countries that is practically impossible, at least from what I have seen.

Why does she keep calling herself a light skinned Latino, she's clearly mestizo, not white nor white passing... like at all.

I know this is a minuscule detail but I love the fact that everything is captioned!!!! It’s so awesome keep it up!!!

So eloquent and articulate this girl deserves a medal, colorism is huge in Asia and we need to call them out just like this lady did

SO glad people are finally talking about this! And don't forget, there are almost exclusively white people in Latino commercials too. It's everywhere.

This was a good vid. Great job!

"A light skinned latina like myself" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

holy shit, you really did call this shit out. You are so freaking right. I guess another thing is that portrait Latinas to have perfect body and so on

I remember watching a novella when I was young about a poor women who became rich and some how she went from being a poor brown women to a rich white woman, her skin color legit changed throughout the novella like wtf?!

Right on, This is so true!! Unfortunately, my mother is totally oblivious to how this affects us as a community. It is so ingrained in the "old" culture that it's considered normal. I feel like these shows, as most TV, make people dumber and ignorant.

I've always wondered this too. I remember my Mexican friend showed me a telenovela for the first time and noticed the actors looked predominantly European and not really mestizo. Some could even pass in Northern Europe.

I LOVE KAT AND KAT CALL SO MUCH YES CALL THIS SHIT OUT 🔥🔥🔥

Can we also call out people who use "indio" as an insult (like the n word)

While I agree that there is an issue of colorism in the casting of telenovelas, especially in countries where lighter skin colors are less common, the idea of a "white passing latina" is inaccurate and harmful. There are plenty of actually white latin@s--they don't have to "pass" for anything else than they actually are, just as there are Asian latin@s, black latin@s, indigenous latin@s, etc. People of Galician, Basque, French, Irish, Welsh, English, German, Russian, etc. descent have lived in Latin America for centuries.

0:36 Sorry, but no. Not light skinned. You are regarded as brown or as people of color.

I'm writing a paper on colorism in latinx media like telenovelas. So does anyone have any videos/articles/etc. that they can pass along or reccomend?

It happens a lot on the brazilian novelas too, I'm so glad I'm not the only onde bothered by this

I've noticed this for years and it drives me insane! I can not watch novellas anymore because of it, also they are just to dumb for me.

Where can i get telenovela to watch in eng sub

Hispanics from Spain are lighter. Mexicans are usually mixed with several different combinations so come in a lot of different shades.

I was thinking about this the other day, I always watch telenovelas with my abuela; and I noticed how few indigenous or Afro-latinos are on telenovelas. Many characters are portrayed with green, and blue eyes. While this definitely can be found in Latin America, it isn't as common as telenovelas get people to think. Either way, I'd like to think white-washing in the telenovela world isn't intentional, and I have started to see more variety of actors, now with less non-whites being seen as the help. So I think telenovelas are diversifying themselves, but haven't gotten there yet; but I'm fine as long as the actors are picked for their quality of acting, and not color of their skin.

Muchas gracias por crear este video, por cierto me gusta mucho tu canal de tu canal, también he mejorado en mi español

You so right sis. You hit this on the head. When I watched telenovelas as a child I never noticed it, but now it's obvious. the world's biggest problem is how Europeans are dominating the politics and commerce of Latin America, Africa and beyond. The poverty and problems of all the Americas are caused by being dominated for the last 400 or so years. I used to just think it was racist gringos who were the problem but one day I found out that there's another sub-group of Europeans who control them. If someone in Latin America can answer this: Who was in control of the racist Venezuelan media before Chavez came to power? Why did they commit genocide in Guatemala against the Mayan? Who controls America's media, Mexican media, the colombian press etc? When someone finds out who is behind the scenes ruling and causing the problems in their native land then they will know who their real enemy is. I also liked the video you did on mental health because It's a lot of people running around with mental health issues in countries with poor health care including EEUU. Paz y Amor. Bendiciones

#malinchismo if you've lived in Latin America you know this is simply "normal". The Spanish left us many lovely cultural traits besides just a language and a religion. They also left us a lovely caste system that is alive and well today. Sure, the Spanish rule of Latin America ended anywhere between 1821 to 1898 but their wonderful system of ever receding rights according to your amount of Spanish blood stayed. Thanks Spain! You truly sucked.

Brazil's soap operas are also like that. if we're in any of these novelas, we're representing in .. well said, basically in help! Things are SLOWLY changing but again (...) 💔

This is very very very very true❗️ this happens to a lot of dark skinned Latinos. But here’s the thing, I was always told that the darker were better. People have a mind set that if you’re at least tan and speak Spanish you’re Latino. But do you how many times people call me “gringa”?! I would understand “guera” but there are lighter skinned Latinos as you can see from the video! What I’m tryna say is that many people I know would want to see me with darker skin instead of MY skin that is practically leche❗️

I'm glad this is being addressed. As an African American living in San Antonio this shit is heart breaking

Yasss....my parents are the same and I look like my dad and was always made to feel less because of it....now I'm proud of my indigenous look 🙏🏼

You nailed it girl......thanks It's so funny the way you put it, but sadly it's true

This one had me 😭 Reminds me of me when I wanted to be an actor but saw this colorism issue

What novela were they watching in the beginning?

Man im a dark mexican i deal with this daily at work amd around so called friends i hate it it seems no matter how much spanish i speak or nahuatl(aztec) i learn its never enough its stressful

The mere fact of labeling us and trying to generalize all of Latin America with a critique of Mexican novels is inaccurate, and the worst thing is trying to apply it to an entire continent that they obviously do not know about.

Girl you gotta watch “La Esclava Blanca” that one has important black main characters

I’m a 51yr old black man who saw My (White Cuban)( Very White Northern Spain ) Grandfather get plenty of LOVE from the Latino(Miami & Chicago) Community and My (Black Cuban)(Very Dark Equatorial Guinea) Grandmother getting treated like CRAP! That probably why My (Latina Looking) Mother participated in the Black Civil rights movement. Very SAD to see it’s still going on.

And this is not just the novelas but TV personalities in general, singers, etc.

The Actress Cameron Diaz is of Cuban descent and is white. Is an example there that yes hispanics are also a 100% white.

Amara “La Negra” is one person I can think of who should be taking the Latin world by storm

oh my guad I have been thinking about Luz calrita so much lately. wow this video was great. THANK YOU

can someone tell me the name of the show at the beginning ?

Rosa de Guadalupe does this😩

I love this. It feels soooo good to hear someone eloquently explain the obvious, what we've all grown up hearing and seeing and sometimes just accept as fact based on "costumbres." We support all Latinos, not just the cookie cutter stereotype society has tried to form us into. It's also up to us to change our way of thinking and to keep from instilling those ideas into our children and the next generation. That's how we keep making progress.

That was a good vid. I'll be sure to share with my kid. :)

Awwwww this is sooo true u just gained a new subscriber

this brazilian teen tv show called malhação has aired for 21 years and 24 seasons and the 24th season was the first one to star a black character. we have statistically the biggest black population outside of nigeria - over half of our population has a significant amount of african blood. it's close to nonsense really

I just had an argument with a light latina about this and the little sayings and terms considered harmless because "everyone in the family says it". Check your colorism.

The grand ma saying wash the dishes was so real! Like “yes I will have a tea party with you cute little girl, if this old rusty girl does the chores.” 😂

I completely agree but the grandma made me feel so safe idk I never met mine but her voice was so soothing and calming and nurturing and it made me so happy💕can she be my grandma?😂💕💕💕

When I was visiting Guatemala, I noticed that all the advertising billboards featured light-skinned models. You know it's bad when even a gringa notices it.

here in switzerland and europe in general i experience the opposite. "arent latinas supposed to be dark? how are you so pale?"

Yes por fin!!!! Someone talks about it. Growing up hearing and seeing this.

Yes this is so true! I got scouted in Mexico city (I’m Mexican) I have no acting talent and don’t even live there but because I knew English and have light tone skin and Hazel eyes they wanted me to do a screen test for a show!

🙏“Padre, sé que he violado tus leyes y mis pecados me han separado de ti. Realmente lo siento, y ahora quiero alejarme de mi vida pecaminosa pasada hacia ti. Perdóname y ayúdame a evitar volver a pecar. Creo que su hijo, Jesucristo, murió por mis pecados, resucitó de entre los muertos, está vivo y escucha mi oración. Invito a Jesús a convertirse en el Señor de mi vida, a gobernar y reinar en mi corazón desde este día en adelante. Por favor envía tu Espíritu Santo para ayudarme a obedecerte y hacer tu voluntad por el resto de mi vida. En el nombre de Jesús oro, Amén "

I've gotten in full arguments with my Mexican classmates in Texas about Afro Latino and Indigenous representation in Latin media. Also in pageants where the most beautiful black women still get negative comments even if they win (DR, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil to name a few). Colorism and racism hurts everyone especially economically and security. If marginalized people are educated and have job opportunities this would benefit all countries then families wouldn't have to caravan to the U.S. where there is a president (Trump) that hates them. Don't be stuck in the 1500's lets move forward for a stronger Americas.

My fiancee watches that shit and I cant wrap my head around supporting a form of media that doesn't respect you.

Great channel. So glad this is finally being talked abkut