Because Americans don’t know anything about Latinos outside of the brown mestizos in their country. So they think all Latinos are supposed to look like that. But there are white ones, brown ones, black ones etc
Jim Richmond Latin American mestizos can come in any skin shade between what is average in Europe and what is average among indigenous tribes below the United States. The vast majority of “Latinos” in the USA are indeed mestizos and studies have been done on this. Mestizos can indeed be brown and in some countries in Latin America such as Mexico, that is common. In fact, most “Latinos” in the USA are of Mexican origin and most Mexicans are mestizos so that should give you the answer right there.
But here you go missing the entire point. If you don't all look the same why are all of yours shows White European looking Latinos? You basically proved the point though. It is because most of you have colorism issues within your own culture and are racist as fuck. God Bless Trump.
Department of Motor Vehicles There are some that think that because of the large presence of white latinos on television in Latin América, but in my opinion most most people view their nations by what they see in their streets and their immediate environment and if that demographic is in their streets then sure, but if it’s not then I don’t believe.
Yeah it's kinda the reality that wealthier Latinos skew lighter though. But Rosa de Guadalupe actually does portray more Mestizos as main cast members compared to other novelas, although the fact that it's an anthology show probably has something to do with it since it requires a new cast each episode. A lot of the story lines also involve issues affecting the poor and working class.
+cuban52 - There are a lot in total numbers just because Mexico has a population of 120 million, but proportionately they represent a minority. Although within the mixed race majority many will skew on the lighter side too. At any rate, the point of the vid is that novelas favor lighter actors over darker ones.
+kiera. This isn't "colorism" it's the "law of nature". Darker males are more attractive to females e.g. darker means more robust, stronger, etc. Lighter females are more attractive to males e.g. more beauty, more health, etc.
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.
it s not just in latin america,,it it everywhere where colonizers have set foot,,,they plated the idea in people's heads and it was passed on for generations....so it is up to us to address this essuie but it is also important to remember to be patient and persistant because this is going to take some time to change!!
Not even tbe same thing becsuse the lstin community isnt one thing its like if americsns black white or native were all shoved into one categorie like lstinos are.... Colirism is something tgst occurs within one group of people not. A bune of groups pricessed as one.. That shit is called racism
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
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.
@acammtt a majority is not black but that doesn't mean there aren't afromexicans. In guererro there is a population of afromexicans in costa chica. just recently the mexican government did a census and found out that more than a million ppl in mexico identify as black.
Europeans are just more attractive, I was born in Mexico and find light skinned Mexicans more attractive, given a choice between a blond haired blue eyed beauty and an Indian looking woman, I go white, also the modern world was invented by Europeans. Latinos, blacks and Africans are just observers while technology advances.
woke hispanic that’s what you call a preference. What people find attractive varies from person to person. I personally find brown/tanner skinned people more attractive and I know of many others who do. It ultimately depends on the person some like white, some brown but neither is superior.
“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.
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. 🙊
I had this problem, whenever I made a comment about how good black or dark skinned guy looked, my aunt would always say “hay no hay que mejorar la raza” which means no we have to improve our race and the funny thing is she hates trump so bad for being racist, the hypocrisy is insane 🙄
Barbara de Regil y su "Ay, no pero que prieta, que fea..." Joder, en que me hace mejor tener menos melanina en mi piél? Aparte de las quemaduras solares.
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
Intersectionality I think that this is deff a lesson for light and white passing Latinx (aka those who benefit from colorist) bc Black Latinx experience being erased from media.
lolgurl141 thanks for watching. Actually many Afro Latinas have highlighted this for a veryyy long time ON TWITTER @bad_dominicana @P_MC2014 @aintilatina @thecityofjules @rosaclemente @InADash
Skane420 well she is Colombian and the biggest group in Colombia is white. I don't think it's wrong for them to cast Sofia Vergara . but it kinda bothers me they make her act as a steriotipical Latina with broken English and shit . I would much rather have anyone from Latin America of any skin color and be represented as well spoken and smart .
+Walabix Ha! Wow! Are you serious? Not all latinos in America are represented like that. Look at Michelle Rodriguez. Also, you calling Sophia Vergara dumb? You're bitching about the way latinos are treated but discriminate against other latinos for how they look and how they sound.
The fact that people believe most Colombians are white is a symptom of poor representation. The largest ethnic group in Colombia is actually Mestizos (49%). White Colombians are about 37% of the population. (not trying to knock you, it's a very common misconception) I do agree with you about Vergara though. I am happy she gets cast, but it's also unfortunate she usually plays a bimbo.
Aapo YAX PAKAL. Actually nope, criollos (white Mediterranean) are the creators of the new republics in latin america. Today most of them are the richest class or middle class workers. Mixed people are part of the middle low class and poor class, bit like Brazil and Argentina, you can find white poor people in Colombia, especially in medellin. You need a book to know the history of latino America. For me America the continent.
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.
Gabby Velasquez you’re ancestors are white too no pure South American or American exists all Latinos are mixes of mostly european and indigenous people through consensual marriages because the European settlers were mostly men and very few women so they married indigenous women and had Mestizo kids mixed kids that’s why you all have mostly Spanish bosque Catalan last names and Italian polish German if you’re ancestors immigrated to South America after independence I know more about history of you’re continent than you it’s a shame that you don’t do you’re own research and just gobble up the media narrative to start a race war
Wow I am lighter than many Hispanics and there are some that are fairer than me ...... I don't pass as white and I have a tan that is not too light but not dark enough to be considered brown or dark skinned .......There are so many crazy stories of how people get insulted or told you are too pretty to be a specific race or ethnicity ........ I have told people I am Ecuadorian yet I have never got insulted or was told, " I am pretty for an Ecuadorian ......" Or how I am too pretty to have indengenous roots ........ I guess I am lucky I am always surrounded by respectful people because it seems like everyone else has it bad damn .........
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.
eakpala18 There's not a lot of white-Mexicans. I mean considering the rest of the population. The majority of white Mexicans all reside in Mexico City, though. Maybe that's why they cast whiter looking Mexicans because of not only their racist views but because Mexico City is where the telenovelas are filmed. I do know that the majority of Mexicans population is mestizo, predominantly Spanish and Native American, fallowed by around 15-20% black. They never show those Mexicans for some reason. Which are the majority. Actually the rest of Latin America is predominantly non-white.
+angel ivan Fully White Mexicans may not represent a huge population percentage-wise, however, they still equate to a large population numbers-wise because Mexico's population is so huge compared to many other Latin American numbers. Also, White Mexicans may be disproportionately represented but it's not accurate to say "They never show" them. And FYI: Mestizos are extremely diverse and individually vary in their racial breakdown with many skewing European, so there's no universal "Mestizo look" per se. Finally, the Black contribution isn't as large as 15-20% like you mentioned. There are some Afro-Mexican communities in states like Vera Cruz and Guerrero (they're usually heavily mixed with Spanish/Native as well), but overall the African contribution to the gene pool is in the single digits. Anyway, back to the original post: As was mentioned before, the non-Mexican Latinos are usually cast to attract audiences in those Latino countries where they're also very profitable.
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.
Ruth S beauty is in the eye of the beholder my friend its just a point of view if the guy sees white skin girls more attractive or beautiful then it is for that person and if it's not for another person who prefers darker skin then she's ugly for that person in other words skin color does define beauty base on the person
Rodrigo Rodriguez True but white skin doesn't mean pretty face and he said that he heard how if a girls is white she is OBVIOUSLY prettier (which is false).
As someone who looks hella white but Mexican I wish I look more dark/mestizo Ive always found it more appealing and attractive. Plus I hate it when ppl think I'm not Mexican
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 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.
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.😀
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 😎
There are also actual white Latinos too, not just white-passing mestizos. You shout out to black and brown Latinos, but why no shout out to white Latinos? Are you racist toward them?
Latino is not a race! There are white, black, brown, even Asian Latinos. You seem racist too since you want to exclude any Latino who isn't brown or black.
thekingofmoney2000 Nobody is excluding them. White Latinas are most represented Latinas on Telenovelas and other Latin related things. Stop victimizing yourself just because Afro and Indigenous Latinos wanna be included.
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. 😥
luisangelismylove - yep, colorism is really racism: preference of white/European heritage over others. It is rooted in the idea that white and whiteness is superior. When my black Hispanic great aunts saw my white looking daughter (her father is Caucasian) they threw their hands up in the air and said: "Se arreglo la raza!" Translation: "Our race just got fixed!" How was it broken in the first place? Really!?
BellaMixteca that's not racist at all, if they discriminated you for your color than that's racist, just cause they stair at your daughter because she light skin doesn't mean they're racist
Many drama students in Mexico are out of luck if they do not look European. The major roles in Novelas are for light skinned characters. The darker roles are for minor characters such as maids and ranch hands.
Mestizos, Mulattos, and Amerindians in latin america can have light skin, she's one of those light skinned non-white Latinas. Light-skinned doesn't equate to white/European.
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.
Actually as the mom of 4 multiethnic kids, I can say this does exist. They all have one father. 2 of my kids are maybe hispanic looking with only 1 being definitely identifiable due to her tan olive complexion and brunette hair. The other 2 look "white" with pale skin,dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. No one would even know they were Hispanic at all and when we have to use markers the doctors write "non-hispanic" instead of asking. They definitely will benefit from some more privileges this way but it's actually annoying to have to correct receptionists and doctors so that they fix a chart. And yes, this is needed for medical reasons/ bloodwork. They are "passing as white," while my youngest definitely can not.
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!
Your skin don't look that tan in your profile so your mom's genes really helped you. I bet all the dark latinos really like you, just like your dad liked your mom...
I’m Mexican looking like the Spaniards is a Privilege cause Mexico still using the caste system tho Spain 🇪🇸 no longer controls Mexico there ideology has not left the common Mexican is jealous. Of us soo they use words like guero gabacho etc words only a indio looking. Mexican would call another Mexican. I think it’s a insult to be called guero etc Mexican is not a race
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.
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?!
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
@Dan Orozco ummm Amara looks nothing like Celia though. Celia had Afro centric features whereas Amara has Eurocentric features and isn’t even an actress. I’m pretty sure there are dark skinned actresses that resemble Celia but the colorist producers didn’t bother to really search
“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
Hector Lalalala Gente como tu son el verdadero cancer y vergüenza de este mundo Dios creo a esa gente que tu fácilmente insultas y te burlas no sabes que Dios se burla de ti el mira de lejos a todos los de pensamientos superiores tu causas la riza no este gente que ni conoces y que nunca te han hecho nada porque lo haces por que eres ignorante gente como tú no valen nada ante los ojos de Dios
#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.
right! But instead of the people realizing this and breaking the mindset, the people continue the colonization from Spain and try to be as European as possible, even though Spain raped, killed, stole and conquered. SMDH
DoroteoVilla : Sorry Butt Hurt! Still If It Wasn't For The Spaniard You Wouldn't Know Notthing Much About God Jehovah! And Jesus Christ!. Wouldn't You Say?!.
I know purebred rich ass Spaniards with NO Moor blood from ASTURIAS, who are celtic, with brown or black hair. Your 5th generation Latin American mestizo family with their dark brown hair that you call guerro are NO Spaniards
@@frankmiller4550 well my opinión is about "indio" jaja, I don't know about the other one cus I am not from the usa, dont know the cultural implications of that word
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.
Im a 29yo cameroonian woman (central africa), and its been 4years since i know that there are native black latinas. And i grew up with heavy telenovelas. Never knew latin american could be black, it thought it was like europe, and black people were like immigrant, not native. Thats how heavy the colourism in media is
Totally missed the point but ok. The question was why are there not people of darker complexion represented but tell us more about Cameron Diaz being White and proud like yourself?
Adrian Gallardo to be 100 percent white in Latin America u must be full European decent example in Argentina 90 percent are white and of Spaniard and Italian decent no drop of African or indegenios blood in them
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.
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.
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.
Janik Bolik von horst, the lead protagonist in The Two Sides of Ana (Los Dos Caras de Ana) is Ukranian-Mexican so she didn't look like the average telenovela character.
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.
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.
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.
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
Miriam Te. WHAT SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN ARE YOU SPEAKING FROM . OBVIOUSLY THE ABSENT ANIMALISTIC SIDE !! THEY ARE WHITER LATINAS THAN YOU !! TRIGGERED YES I AM FOR YOU BEING SOO STUPID AS TO SAY THAT !! BUT THEN WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM SOMEONE CLOSE TO THE NORTH POLE. BRAIN FREEZE!
@@bryceanderson9944 THANKS FOR COUNTING EVERY 500 MILLION LATINOS AND MAKING A NOTE OF THAT !! OH BY THE WAY I CONCLUDED THAT YOU ARE A WHITE ANGLO AND AMERICAN AND BY MOST OF THEIR COMMENTS. ABOUT LATINOS THEY ARE STUPID!! SEE I CAN BE A REAL IGNORANT IDIOT!!!
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.
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
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.
Bro said "light skin Latinas like myself" at 0:36 yet at 1:35 she has the exact same facial features and the exact same skin tone as the indigenous lady in the back. KAT i promise you that you can pass as full blooded indigenous yourself. Just admit that Latin America is mostly ANTI black. Not ANTI indigenous. You said yourself in another video that you had an AFRO latina friend date a white guy, and that white guys mom said "why couldn't he date a Latina more like her (the girl narrating this video) people would prefer to cast an indigenous person, over a black person.
But she IS light skinned!!!!!! Features and skin tone are not the same thing. She is literally sitting next to two Black people how do you not see how light she is in comparison to them. She’s also much lighter than her own father she put a picture for comparison. She’s lighter than a lot of other dark and darker skinned tone Latinos out there. If you line her up with people of different skin tones you’re not gonna put her on the darker end are you???
@@MJsGuardAngel women are on average always lighter than men in every race. And I never said she WASN'T light skin. I said she's NOT white passing and that she had the same skin tone AND facial features as the indigenous lady at the back. Nobody would ever confuse her for being white.
@@ifyourespondyourmad.2409 you’re contradicting. You quoted her she said “light skinned like me” and now you’re talking about “white passing” when nobody is talking about that. She didn’t say she’s white passing so idk why you’re saying that now. And what indigenous lady are you talking about ?? The abuelita ??
@@MJsGuardAngel saying "a light skin Latina like my self" is another way of saying she thinks she's white passing and stands out from every other non white Latino. yet she looks just like the indigenous lady at the background at 1:35 who she claims don't get enough representation in the media.
Geraldine Agathon ya but that only cuz of slavery that’s the only reason they added black main characters. I think they should do more telenovelas with Afro Latinos and indigenous people.
The Philippines actually discriminates a LOT! My teacher in 4th grade did. She called those who in her eyes were pretty, she called the white students or "Mestizas", and i didn't make that list. From my experience, the Philippine standard of beauty is being white and having foreign features. Looking at the showbiz industry most people are white and/or are half American or something.
@@MJsGuardAngel I don't know what country you live at, but where I live she would be considered dark-skinned. If she's light-skinned, what am I? A ghost?
@@nose-vm3gu bruh. Dark skin is dark skin anywhere. That girl standing next to Lupita Nyong’o would be considered light skinned. She’s not dark at all, if anything she’s tanned but she’s DEFF not dark. Dark is Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer etc etc those are the real dark skinned people. She’s nowhere near that shade at all. She DEFF would benefit from light skin privilege.
@@MJsGuardAngel I live in latinoamérica, who do you think would know? I know she wouldn't be considered white here. About the people you mentioned, in my country we don't even have black population, so I don't think your point stands.
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 (...) 💔
@@valuecalc get out of here! See you comments under all the comments here's don't you have nothing better to do then being sarcastic on somebody else opinion ? Damn it, mind u
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.
As a black man, I was surprised when I found so many black people in Ecuador. There are a bunch of black people in Latin America that we never see or learn about unless we go and see them for ourselves.
Yup. I only found out about them because of their national soccer teams. The Ecuador and Honduras national teams are composed of mostly black players. Colombia has a lot of them too
@@markthompson8246 True, but they're already expressed pretty heavily in media despite only being minority populations of most Latin countries, depending on how you count mestizos.
Well; I'm from Ecuador and in my city black people are just a minority. There are most Latin and natives; in fact during my kinder garden and high school I just can remember a single female black student.
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.
I hate to say it but it's true. My family is of Portuguese and Spanish descent and we have mostly redheads and blondes (not to say there aren't darker-skinned relatives as well). My uncles and aunts that had light skin (not tan but fair to porcelain) all became doctors or held blue-collar jobs while my darker-skinned relatives held working-class jobs. I was born with light skin and passed as white. I am 16 at 6'1ft and was able to attend an accelerated program where I'll skip a few years of college (I was accepted because they needed more of "those kinds of Latinos"). It's also shaming that my grandmother advises not to go outside or "you will get dark". The only way I see we can move up in social status is for our lighter skin. Yes, it is right to appreciate the darker skin population but the reality of having darker skin does weight you down.
Why do you act like Latinos looking white is SUCH a bad thing?!Like wtf is wrong with having pale skin and blonde hair?!?like wtf has a pale person ever done to you to "call them out" smfh.
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.
The running joke is , If you want to see a real Mexican watch American tv don't watch Telemundo. George lopez and Wilmer Valderama couldn't get on Telemundo.
@@Rudrugo As they say Ignorance is bliss. He can try to bullshit if he wants to but we live this shit, and have been living in it for YEARS now. Colorism has a long history in the past and is still alive in our present.
🙏“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 "
Dude. Please don't bring the USA bias to Latinoamérica. We have our own bias. Our bias is in economic. And where the novela takes place. It does make a resemblance of the actual Mexican society, even if we don't like it. Most of central Mexico is the where novelas take place. Here the Story of the poor girl meets the rich guy. Well, yes it's true most of the richest Mexicans are fair skin. And it's fair, we don't have so many blondes, as the great investors came from Spain or arab countries. And most of the poorest are brown, white-brown, black? Not so many. The black Mexicans you can find them near the coast. Also, northern Mexico is full of whites, where not so many or no telenovela takes place. I'm brown, my family is from Guerrero so Afro Mexican. It's an interesting story, That's all. It doesn't define me.
That’s interesting, my family also comes from Guerrero and I’ve been told it has the people with the highest African ancestry. I went there twice and a good portion of the town was white-ish. People with pink skin, light eyes, lighter hair. I myself have red/brown hair like my dad. Granted I’ve probably seen 2% of Guerrero but I seriously have never saw an actual black Mexican in my life. I saw a tourist in a city in Puebla XD
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
Now I feel guilty because even though I’m Mexican, my classmates think I’m white, and I’m also considerably better off than practically any Latino in my school...
Lil Tree Sapling Even my mom says I have white privilege, to a certain degree :/ (Although, online people seem to think I look Asian? I have no idea how that happened...)
あんロわリ I’m Hispanic too (my parents are from Ecuador 🇪🇨 and Guatemala 🇬🇹) and a lot of kids think that me and mah bro’s are white cuz we all have pale skin, hazel eyes and light brown hair, stereotypes suck :( I hate it
Lil Tree Sapling I'm considered pale and have straight hair, and can’t handle spicy food at all. I didn’t know people thought I was white until some of my cousin's friends were speaking Spanish and one of them went out of her way to say they weren’t talking about me. It’s kind of annoying. I’m Mexican, btw.
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.
Sorry to to tell you as a white boy myself. You do not look white at all. Among us white we do not have this problem even darker whites are considered exotic and we try hard to get tan but we are still white Caucasians. And we know the difference no matter how light Hispanics are we do not view you guys as white
I remember when I was young and brown and I stopped going out in the sun Just because I wanted to look like my white cousins. Crazy how even when were so young, it's engrained in our brain that being white is better. 😭😭
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❗️
What bothers me the most is when people think that Latino is a race and we're supposed to look the same
Because Americans don’t know anything about Latinos outside of the brown mestizos in their country. So they think all Latinos are supposed to look like that. But there are white ones, brown ones, black ones etc
Jim Richmond Latin American mestizos can come in any skin shade between what is average in Europe and what is average among indigenous tribes below the United States. The vast majority of “Latinos” in the USA are indeed mestizos and studies have been done on this. Mestizos can indeed be brown and in some countries in Latin America such as Mexico, that is common. In fact, most “Latinos” in the USA are of Mexican origin and most Mexicans are mestizos so that should give you the answer right there.
But here you go missing the entire point. If you don't all look the same why are all of yours shows White European looking Latinos? You basically proved the point though. It is because most of you have colorism issues within your own culture and are racist as fuck. God Bless Trump.
Department of Motor Vehicles There are some that think that because of the large presence of white latinos on television in Latin América, but in my opinion most most people view their nations by what they see in their streets and their immediate environment and if that demographic is in their streets then sure, but if it’s not then I don’t believe.
Department of Motor Vehicles I can agree with that. But painting all latinos with the same brush is not wise.
MEXICAN NOVELAS LIKE LA ROSA DE GUADALUPE AND COMO DICE EL DICHO ALWAYS PORTRAY LIGHTSKIN LATINOS AS RICH BUT THE BROWN ONES AS POOR
cesvrx I know they're generalizing, but aren't most wealthy Mexicans white?
Yeah it's kinda the reality that wealthier Latinos skew lighter though. But Rosa de Guadalupe actually does portray more Mestizos as main cast members compared to other novelas, although the fact that it's an anthology show probably has something to do with it since it requires a new cast each episode. A lot of the story lines also involve issues affecting the poor and working class.
cesvrx aren't there a lot of white Mexicans tho?
+cuban52 - There are a lot in total numbers just because Mexico has a population of 120 million, but proportionately they represent a minority. Although within the mixed race majority many will skew on the lighter side too. At any rate, the point of the vid is that novelas favor lighter actors over darker ones.
cuban52 Btw, are you Cuban?
Fernando colunga is the darkest telenovela actor I can recall. and he is always with a light skinned woman
kiera embers Yeha that happens a lot too; pairing a person of color with a white person for romance
TheeKatsMeoww no problem with that, but is it too hard to make a telenovela with two lead brown ppl.
kiera embers he was in Amor Real with Adela Noriega
You're absolutely right, these types of couples are usually found in novelas. 🤔 Thanks 4 watching.
+kiera. This isn't "colorism" it's the "law of nature". Darker males are more attractive to females e.g. darker means more robust, stronger, etc. Lighter females are more attractive to males e.g. more beauty, more health, etc.
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.
it s not just in latin america,,it it everywhere where colonizers have set foot,,,they plated the idea in people's heads and it was passed on for generations....so it is up to us to address this essuie but it is also important to remember to be patient and persistant because this is going to take some time to change!!
Not even tbe same thing becsuse the lstin community isnt one thing its like if americsns black white or native were all shoved into one categorie like lstinos are.... Colirism is something tgst occurs within one group of people not. A bune of groups pricessed as one.. That shit is called racism
@@joere-uploader5766 Nope its the meztizo types
@@joere-uploader5766 particularly spain i hear. argentians are also very white
Edgar Barajas bro we are half white to begin with aka meztisos
I think Mitu needs to be aware of this, as well. From what I see, most of Mitu protagonists are light-skinned.
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
lol
Love Z. Malik wait since when is 9%-10% "a lot" lol
Jenny Espana I'm talking about skin color not necessarily of European descent.
Jenny Espana That 9-10% is around 10 million white Mexicans, so that's is a lot!
eakpala18 not when taking into account that that's less than 1/10 of the mexican population lol
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.
Agreed smh
acammtt a large amount of it is part black but I think it’s around only 30% that are at least half black
@acammtt a majority is not black but that doesn't mean there aren't afromexicans. In guererro there is a population of afromexicans in costa chica. just recently the mexican government did a census and found out that more than a million ppl in mexico identify as black.
fireblast 744 I’m not saying that the population is 30% Afro Mexican I’m saying around 30% have at least more than 25% of black in em
Dude... I remember that one XD Made me think of me and my cousins, except we’re all loved the same :)
Let’s appreciate dark skin in Mexico please, every skin is beautiful.
No
Europeans are just more attractive, I was born in Mexico and find light skinned Mexicans more attractive, given a choice between a blond haired blue eyed beauty and an Indian looking woman, I go white, also the modern world was invented by Europeans. Latinos, blacks and Africans are just observers while technology advances.
woke hispanic that’s what you call a preference. What people find attractive varies from person to person. I personally find brown/tanner skinned people more attractive and I know of many others who do. It ultimately depends on the person some like white, some brown but neither is superior.
@@chriseller3426 You sound like an idiot just trying to get a rise out of people!!! lol
Tell that to Televisa.
“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.
Izakokomarixyz this girl looks aztec. She is not that light
I’m a LOT paler than her and yeah, most of my classmates think I’m white, but adults can usually tell I’m not.
It is exactly the same I thought, In Mexico I find so many people like her telling they are white or light skin and I say What?.
@@anrowari The chinese are not white you are yellowish.
Umm, I’m not Chinese? I’m not even Asian! I’m Mexican.
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. 🙊
Wow that’s embarrassing 😐
@Snow White I guess that's fair. Still she has been in this country since 1970 so you'd think she would have learned comments like that are hurtful.
I had this problem, whenever I made a comment about how good black or dark skinned guy looked, my aunt would always say “hay no hay que mejorar la raza” which means no we have to improve our race and the funny thing is she hates trump so bad for being racist, the hypocrisy is insane 🙄
Barbara de Regil y su "Ay, no pero que prieta, que fea..."
Joder, en que me hace mejor tener menos melanina en mi piél?
Aparte de las quemaduras solares.
Really?
I always thought 'mejorar la raza' applied only to marrying white Latinos.
Didn't know it meant marrying anybody who was white.
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
Intersectionality I think that this is deff a lesson for light and white passing Latinx (aka those who benefit from colorist) bc Black Latinx experience being erased from media.
TheeKatsMeoww Absolutely! I just love how they act like we don't exist, even though they probably have African genes themselves...smfh
Good thing. Telenovelas are very unpopular in Mexico. Poor people or old people are the demographic that are still into telenovelas.
Intersectionality I'm a Mexican meztiso who looks more white aka Spanish I love my mixed ethnicity
Intersectionality I'm 11 and my mom side are white and blonde and my dad side is black hair and brown skin. Their both from mexico
THANK YOU for talking about it!!! NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT IT at least not blatantly.
lolgurl141 thanks for watching. Actually many Afro Latinas have highlighted this for a veryyy long time
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Don't watch them if you don't like them.
Do one on hollywood using white latinos and calling it "diversity" (sophia vergara)
Skane420 well she is Colombian and the biggest group in Colombia is white. I don't think it's wrong for them to cast Sofia Vergara . but it kinda bothers me they make her act as a steriotipical Latina with broken English and shit . I would much rather have anyone from Latin America of any skin color and be represented as well spoken and smart .
+Walabix Ha! Wow! Are you serious? Not all latinos in America are represented like that. Look at Michelle Rodriguez. Also, you calling Sophia Vergara dumb? You're bitching about the way latinos are treated but discriminate against other latinos for how they look and how they sound.
The fact that people believe most Colombians are white is a symptom of poor representation. The largest ethnic group in Colombia is actually Mestizos (49%). White Colombians are about 37% of the population. (not trying to knock you, it's a very common misconception)
I do agree with you about Vergara though. I am happy she gets cast, but it's also unfortunate she usually plays a bimbo.
Walabix Ha! STFU. Mestizos and Indigenous people are the largest demographics
Aapo YAX PAKAL. Actually nope, criollos (white Mediterranean) are the creators of the new republics in latin america. Today most of them are the richest class or middle class workers. Mixed people are part of the middle low class and poor class, bit like Brazil and Argentina, you can find white poor people in Colombia, especially in medellin. You need a book to know the history of latino America. For me America the continent.
not to bring home a black guy? that's straight up racism mitú the term colorism almost softens it
CapiTen10 not all of them but some... I think sometimes we are just fetishized in general even by some white guys..
@ wtf xd
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.
Gabby Velasquez you’re ancestors are white too no pure South American or American exists all Latinos are mixes of mostly european and indigenous people through consensual marriages because the European settlers were mostly men and very few women so they married indigenous women and had Mestizo kids mixed kids that’s why you all have mostly Spanish bosque Catalan last names and Italian polish German if you’re ancestors immigrated to South America after independence I know more about history of you’re continent than you it’s a shame that you don’t do you’re own research and just gobble up the media narrative to start a race war
Wow I am lighter than many Hispanics and there are some that are fairer than me ...... I don't pass as white and I have a tan that is not too light but not dark enough to be considered brown or dark skinned .......There are so many crazy stories of how people get insulted or told you are too pretty to be a specific race or ethnicity ........
I have told people I am Ecuadorian yet I have never got insulted or was told, " I am pretty for an Ecuadorian ......" Or how I am too pretty to have indengenous roots ........
I guess I am lucky I am always surrounded by respectful people because it seems like everyone else has it bad damn .........
You'd be really badass if you just didn't give a damn what people say. You seem sensitive, and people like to get a reaction out of sensitive people.
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.
Colorism aside, they actually deliberately cast non-Mexican Latinos to broaden the appeal in other Latin American countries.
Ruby Manriquez Well there's a lot of white Mexicans and I do see a lot of mestizos in the novelas .
eakpala18 There's not a lot of white-Mexicans. I mean considering the rest of the population. The majority of white Mexicans all reside in Mexico City, though. Maybe that's why they cast whiter looking Mexicans because of not only their racist views but because Mexico City is where the telenovelas are filmed. I do know that the majority of Mexicans population is mestizo, predominantly Spanish and Native American, fallowed by around 15-20% black. They never show those Mexicans for some reason. Which are the majority. Actually the rest of Latin America is predominantly non-white.
angel ivan While it is true that the white Mexican population is small ~10%, the majority don't live in the capital but rather in the north.
+angel ivan Fully White Mexicans may not represent a huge population percentage-wise, however, they still equate to a large population numbers-wise because Mexico's population is so huge compared to many other Latin American numbers. Also, White Mexicans may be disproportionately represented but it's not accurate to say "They never show" them. And FYI: Mestizos are extremely diverse and individually vary in their racial breakdown with many skewing European, so there's no universal "Mestizo look" per se. Finally, the Black contribution isn't as large as 15-20% like you mentioned. There are some Afro-Mexican communities in states like Vera Cruz and Guerrero (they're usually heavily mixed with Spanish/Native as well), but overall the African contribution to the gene pool is in the single digits.
Anyway, back to the original post: As was mentioned before, the non-Mexican Latinos are usually cast to attract audiences in those Latino countries where they're also very profitable.
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.
Ruth S beauty is in the eye of the beholder my friend its just a point of view if the guy sees white skin girls more attractive or beautiful then it is for that person and if it's not for another person who prefers darker skin then she's ugly for that person in other words skin color does define beauty base on the person
Rodrigo Rodriguez True but white skin doesn't mean pretty face and he said that he heard how if a girls is white she is OBVIOUSLY prettier (which is false).
As someone who looks hella white but Mexican I wish I look more dark/mestizo Ive always found it more appealing and attractive. Plus I hate it when ppl think I'm not Mexican
I know I'm a white Mexican but I only date morenas
Fluffy Tiki you can't your own race
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 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.
And in the government.
If they did change it and casted yaritza aparicios’ for every novela nobody would watch
@@Cuhh346not even mestizo men wanna touch that
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.😀
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 😎
There are also actual white Latinos too, not just white-passing mestizos. You shout out to black and brown Latinos, but why no shout out to white Latinos? Are you racist toward them?
Latino is not a race! There are white, black, brown, even Asian Latinos. You seem racist too since you want to exclude any Latino who isn't brown or black.
thekingofmoney2000 Nobody is excluding them. White Latinas are most represented Latinas on Telenovelas and other Latin related things. Stop victimizing yourself just because Afro and Indigenous Latinos wanna be included.
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.
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. 😥
luisangelismylove I'm sorry to hear that.
+luis. Yea, that's life, better get used to it.
I don't think it's racism...may be people was just surprise that she doesn't look like you, don't address race into everything
luisangelismylove - yep, colorism is really racism: preference of white/European heritage over others. It is rooted in the idea that white and whiteness is superior. When my black Hispanic great aunts saw my white looking daughter (her father is Caucasian) they threw their hands up in the air and said: "Se arreglo la raza!" Translation: "Our race just got fixed!" How was it broken in the first place? Really!?
BellaMixteca that's not racist at all, if they discriminated you for your color than that's racist, just cause they stair at your daughter because she light skin doesn't mean they're racist
Many drama students in Mexico are out of luck if they do not look European. The major roles in Novelas are for light skinned characters. The darker roles are for minor characters such as maids and ranch hands.
This is why I stopped watching novellas.
Why does she keep calling herself a light skinned Latino, she's clearly mestizo, not white nor white passing... like at all.
Light skinned doesn't mean white.
Mestizos, Mulattos, and Amerindians in latin america can have light skin, she's one of those light skinned non-white Latinas. Light-skinned doesn't equate to white/European.
I think she secretly likes referring herself as such because it makes her feel good. Draw your own conclusions.
Thank you for posting this. It's long overdue.
Gerardo Figueroa Absolutely! I'll be doing this every Sunday!
Thanks for taking the time to watch the video Gerardo Figueroa. It is time to raise awareness.
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.
Just as there are a lot of white latinos with various degrees of indigenous or african admixture, they just pass of as white. No one is wrong here.
Actually as the mom of 4 multiethnic kids, I can say this does exist. They all have one father. 2 of my kids are maybe hispanic looking with only 1 being definitely identifiable due to her tan olive complexion and brunette hair. The other 2 look "white" with pale skin,dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. No one would even know they were Hispanic at all and when we have to use markers the doctors write "non-hispanic" instead of asking. They definitely will benefit from some more privileges this way but it's actually annoying to have to correct receptionists and doctors so that they fix a chart. And yes, this is needed for medical reasons/ bloodwork. They are "passing as white," while my youngest definitely can not.
Thanks! I'm really white and I find offensive when USA people say that I'm not white or "white passing". I'm from Argentina.
Amara “La Negra” is one person I can think of who should be taking the Latin world by storm
Zoe Saldana too 👌🏼
Majessty _ And Tatyana Ali
All of the famous Afro Latinos
@@Pink_pr1ncess Tatyana Ali is mixed though, she is half Asian Indian
WastedBananas True but she can still pass for black in America. Because of America’s stupid one-drop rule.
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!
You prefer lighter skin, too.
@@valuecalc no I have no preference for skin tone.
@@Chepis96, but you said that Mexicans like light skin. I see nothing wrong with it.
Your skin don't look that tan in your profile so your mom's genes really helped you. I bet all the dark latinos really like you, just like your dad liked your mom...
I’m Mexican looking like the Spaniards is a Privilege cause Mexico still using the caste system tho Spain 🇪🇸 no longer controls Mexico there ideology has not left the common Mexican is jealous. Of us soo they use words like guero gabacho etc words only a indio looking. Mexican would call another Mexican. I think it’s a insult to be called guero etc Mexican is not a race
Kat, you certainly could pass as a Native American and you should be proud of that
Sebastián Santamaría only half
She is half Native American
A lot of those actors are not Mexican couple of them are from different countries
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.
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?!
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
Sebastie Cortes There's a few in Mexico as well it's just like the rest of Latin America the world likes to only embrace white skin.
Afro as in African?? Lol or Afro as in fuck y'all this is our country we don't need to do shit?
They fucked it up though by casting a lighter skinned actress to portray Celia. Celia was a dark skinned Afro Cuban and her husband as well.
@Dan Orozco ummm Amara looks nothing like Celia though. Celia had Afro centric features whereas Amara has Eurocentric features and isn’t even an actress.
I’m pretty sure there are dark skinned actresses that resemble Celia but the colorist producers didn’t bother to really search
I feel Colombian novelas are a little more diverse racially than Mexican ones. I have watched novelas with indigenous and black characters.
“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
Don't worry the actors and actresses from telenovelas don't wan to represent you either.
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Hector Lalalala entonces mas del 90% de los Mexicanos son una verguenza. Nosotros somos indios, no te engañes.
Hector Lalalala Gente como tu son el verdadero cancer y vergüenza de este mundo Dios creo a esa gente que tu fácilmente insultas y te burlas no sabes que Dios se burla de ti el mira de lejos a todos los de pensamientos superiores tu causas la riza no este gente que ni conoces y que nunca te han hecho nada porque lo haces por que eres ignorante gente como tú no valen nada ante los ojos de Dios
Omg I am so glad there's a video on this, I thought I was the only that noticed this on Telenovelas!!!
#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.
DoroteoVilla dejanos en paz por favor se hizo lo que se pudo
right! But instead of the people realizing this and breaking the mindset, the people continue the colonization from Spain and try to be as European as possible, even though Spain raped, killed, stole and conquered. SMDH
DoroteoVilla : Sorry Butt Hurt! Still If It Wasn't For The Spaniard You Wouldn't Know Notthing Much About God Jehovah! And Jesus Christ!. Wouldn't You Say?!.
@@williamstriker8051 jesus is a jew.
You had your time to change it. Either way the caste system was more about Spanishness than Whiteness. We are brown too btw.
Giiiirl you are SO INDIGENOUS! No tiene un pelo de blanca latina.
Jaja
I know purebred rich ass Spaniards with NO Moor blood from ASTURIAS, who are celtic, with brown or black hair. Your 5th generation Latin American mestizo family with their dark brown hair that you call guerro are NO Spaniards
She looks more like those native girls from the reservations of the U.S. with her asian eyes and half shaved mohawk hair-do.
Can we also call out people who use "indio" as an insult (like the n word)
Honestly it shouldn't be an insult
@@axelaguirre5014 lol which one?
@@frankmiller4550 well my opinión is about "indio" jaja, I don't know about the other one cus I am not from the usa, dont know the cultural implications of that word
the indio is for people from india, i dont know what you mean
@@BlackBass 500 years ago spaniards thought that the natives where from india
Novelas used to be popular. I think they are losing their sparks. Now mini series are the IN.
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.
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Sorry, but no. Not light skinned. You are regarded as brown or as people of color.
She wants to be white so bad
@@ricardop9196 its not that she is still lighter than a lot of people of color
Hispanics from Spain are lighter. Mexicans are usually mixed with several different combinations so come in a lot of different shades.
Im a 29yo cameroonian woman (central africa), and its been 4years since i know that there are native black latinas. And i grew up with heavy telenovelas. Never knew latin american could be black, it thought it was like europe, and black people were like immigrant, not native. Thats how heavy the colourism in media is
The Actress Cameron Diaz is of Cuban descent and is white. Is an example there that yes hispanics are also a 100% white.
Right.
Totally missed the point but ok. The question was why are there not people of darker complexion represented but tell us more about Cameron Diaz being White and proud like yourself?
Department of Motor Vehicles mixed but barely 💀
Adrian Gallardo to be 100 percent white in Latin America u must be full European decent example in Argentina 90 percent are white and of Spaniard and Italian decent no drop of African or indegenios blood in them
@@patrickspencer7347 perfectly said
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.
If you consider yourself a “light skinned latina” that means that I am Casper.
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.
You should talk about Native Americans in Latin America
Yes they talk about it’s an Indigenous people
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.
Janik Bolik von horst, the lead protagonist in The Two Sides of Ana (Los Dos Caras de Ana) is Ukranian-Mexican so she didn't look like the average telenovela character.
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.
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.
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.
Thank god y’all showed this and with AFRO-Latinas! This made my year
Novelas make you feel low self-esteem
Not really cause their is way cuter girls in my Mexican nieghborhood than the blonde ble eyed girls they show in novelas
Cuz u ugly
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
"light skin latina like myself" lmao if you're light skinned then I'm literally transparent
Lol I know🤣. I think she means a light brown-skin Latina, not a plain light-skin one.
Mexican novelas and what are they portraying are Mexico's business, not US business.
It’s really our business when when there are 30 million Mexicans in America. They’re going to see that Mexican novelas are racist
What was the point of this comment? Plenty of people care about this subject. Nobody is holding a gun to your head.
It is when stuff like that exist and Americans of the US act like Latino is a race.
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.
here in switzerland and europe in general i experience the opposite. "arent latinas supposed to be dark? how are you so pale?"
Miriam Te. WHAT SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN ARE YOU SPEAKING FROM . OBVIOUSLY THE ABSENT ANIMALISTIC SIDE !! THEY ARE WHITER LATINAS THAN YOU !! TRIGGERED YES I AM FOR YOU BEING SOO STUPID AS TO SAY THAT !! BUT THEN WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM SOMEONE CLOSE TO THE NORTH POLE. BRAIN FREEZE!
Even though the majority of Latinos are brown. It's all the wealthy and powerful people "white Latinos" that run everything.
Google bb, Google .....
@@bryceanderson9944 You're just generalizing, same as all other people here
@@bryceanderson9944 THANKS FOR COUNTING EVERY 500 MILLION LATINOS AND MAKING A NOTE OF THAT !! OH BY THE WAY I CONCLUDED THAT YOU ARE A WHITE ANGLO AND AMERICAN AND BY MOST OF THEIR COMMENTS. ABOUT LATINOS THEY ARE STUPID!! SEE I CAN BE A REAL IGNORANT IDIOT!!!
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.
J Brane DALE! yes! Glad you enjoyed it
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
light skin Latinas like myself? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
She looks very indigenous to me
Some people don't learn
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I know how is she light skinned ??? I am her skin tone and I would never call myself light skinned.
It's relative but she's a pretty light skinned even though you might "see" the indigenous side.
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.
Bro said "light skin Latinas like myself" at 0:36 yet at 1:35 she has the exact same facial features and the exact same skin tone as the indigenous lady in the back. KAT i promise you that you can pass as full blooded indigenous yourself. Just admit that Latin America is mostly ANTI black. Not ANTI indigenous. You said yourself in another video that you had an AFRO latina friend date a white guy, and that white guys mom said "why couldn't he date a Latina more like her (the girl narrating this video) people would prefer to cast an indigenous person, over a black person.
But she IS light skinned!!!!!! Features and skin tone are not the same thing. She is literally sitting next to two Black people how do you not see how light she is in comparison to them. She’s also much lighter than her own father she put a picture for comparison. She’s lighter than a lot of other dark and darker skinned tone Latinos out there. If you line her up with people of different skin tones you’re not gonna put her on the darker end are you???
@@MJsGuardAngel women are on average always lighter than men in every race. And I never said she WASN'T light skin. I said she's NOT white passing and that she had the same skin tone AND facial features as the indigenous lady at the back. Nobody would ever confuse her for being white.
@@ifyourespondyourmad.2409 you’re contradicting. You quoted her she said “light skinned like me” and now you’re talking about “white passing” when nobody is talking about that. She didn’t say she’s white passing so idk why you’re saying that now.
And what indigenous lady are you talking about ?? The abuelita ??
@@MJsGuardAngel saying "a light skin Latina like my self" is another way of saying she thinks she's white passing and stands out from every other non white Latino. yet she looks just like the indigenous lady at the background at 1:35 who she claims don't get enough representation in the media.
She’s light brown
Girl you gotta watch “La Esclava Blanca” that one has important black main characters
Geraldine Agathon ya but that only cuz of slavery that’s the only reason they added black main characters. I think they should do more telenovelas with Afro Latinos and indigenous people.
The Philippines actually discriminates a LOT! My teacher in 4th grade did. She called those who in her eyes were pretty, she called the white students or "Mestizas", and i didn't make that list. From my experience, the Philippine standard of beauty is being white and having foreign features. Looking at the showbiz industry most people are white and/or are half American or something.
Chelsea Manalo is Miss Universe Philippines 2024 is half black her father is American but he’s African American not Anglo American
Back in the 90s 😂 there was a novela called xica some of the actors where white but the protagonist was black it was a Brazilian novela......
"A light skinned latina like myself" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
X4
But she is light skinned, wtf are you laughing about ?!?! She’s clearly not dark
@@MJsGuardAngel I don't know what country you live at, but where I live she would be considered dark-skinned.
If she's light-skinned, what am I? A ghost?
@@nose-vm3gu bruh. Dark skin is dark skin anywhere. That girl standing next to Lupita Nyong’o would be considered light skinned. She’s not dark at all, if anything she’s tanned but she’s DEFF not dark. Dark is Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer etc etc those are the real dark skinned people. She’s nowhere near that shade at all. She DEFF would benefit from light skin privilege.
@@MJsGuardAngel I live in latinoamérica, who do you think would know? I know she wouldn't be considered white here.
About the people you mentioned, in my country we don't even have black population, so I don't think your point stands.
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 (...) 💔
sam, then start your own film companies.
@@valuecalc get out of here! See you comments under all the comments here's don't you have nothing better to do then being sarcastic on somebody else opinion ? Damn it, mind u
@@acknowledgeforall, a clown like you bitches about it loudly, but you'd discriminate against your own. I know it.
@@acknowledgeforall he's right!
@@FogoDeOfir No it's not
It happens a lot on the brazilian novelas too, I'm so glad I'm not the only onde bothered by this
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.
My fiancee watches that shit and I cant wrap my head around supporting a form of media that doesn't respect you.
As a black man, I was surprised when I found so many black people in Ecuador. There are a bunch of black people in Latin America that we never see or learn about unless we go and see them for ourselves.
In New York City and New Jersey and Florida...you see a lot of black Latinos.
Yup. I only found out about them because of their national soccer teams. The Ecuador and Honduras national teams are composed of mostly black players. Colombia has a lot of them too
There's also lots of white people too.
@@markthompson8246 True, but they're already expressed pretty heavily in media despite only being minority populations of most Latin countries, depending on how you count mestizos.
Well; I'm from Ecuador and in my city black people are just a minority. There are most Latin and natives; in fact during my kinder garden and high school I just can remember a single female black student.
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'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.
Trump was an Owner of Miss Universe before Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines wins when he was already ran for US President
I hate to say it but it's true. My family is of Portuguese and Spanish descent and we have mostly redheads and blondes (not to say there aren't darker-skinned relatives as well). My uncles and aunts that had light skin (not tan but fair to porcelain) all became doctors or held blue-collar jobs while my darker-skinned relatives held working-class jobs. I was born with light skin and passed as white. I am 16 at 6'1ft and was able to attend an accelerated program where I'll skip a few years of college (I was accepted because they needed more of "those kinds of Latinos"). It's also shaming that my grandmother advises not to go outside or "you will get dark". The only way I see we can move up in social status is for our lighter skin. Yes, it is right to appreciate the darker skin population but the reality of having darker skin does weight you down.
Why do you act like Latinos looking white is SUCH a bad thing?!Like wtf is wrong with having pale skin and blonde hair?!?like wtf has a pale person ever done to you to "call them out" smfh.
been saying this forever thank you. im tired of only seeing women that look like me in maid/"lesser than" roles
"What can I do to help??"
"Vaya limpiar los platos" jajajaja 😂
Her face expression 😆🤣😂😅
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.
The running joke is , If you want to see a real Mexican watch American tv don't watch Telemundo. George lopez and Wilmer Valderama couldn't get on Telemundo.
U ain't lieing lol 💯
Wilmer Valderama is light skinned look at his daughter has blonde hair and he played Augustin Madrigal (Mirabel’s father) from Encanto
@@vernicejillmagsino9603 He married a white woman .The childs mother is white.
Colorism? I can't keep up with all of these 'isms'.
Come on! Colorism isn't a new Thing!. If you have just heard about it you are definitely not keeping up with the world.
@@Rudrugo As they say Ignorance is bliss. He can try to bullshit if he wants to but we live this shit, and have been living in it for YEARS now. Colorism has a long history in the past and is still alive in our present.
Pick a Book and read sometime, yeah??
Growing up I never really noticed. I guess I didn't pay much attention to race as a kid.
Exactly, these dumb liberals are gonna make Mexico racist like they did to the US...
@@trashcantacos How is pointing out this anomaly racist?
@@trashcantacos are you stupid? This isn't political so gtfo 💀
🙏“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 "
Dude. Please don't bring the USA bias to Latinoamérica. We have our own bias. Our bias is in economic. And where the novela takes place. It does make a resemblance of the actual Mexican society, even if we don't like it. Most of central Mexico is the where novelas take place. Here the Story of the poor girl meets the rich guy. Well, yes it's true most of the richest Mexicans are fair skin. And it's fair, we don't have so many blondes, as the great investors came from Spain or arab countries. And most of the poorest are brown, white-brown, black? Not so many. The black Mexicans you can find them near the coast. Also, northern Mexico is full of whites, where not so many or no telenovela takes place. I'm brown, my family is from Guerrero so Afro Mexican. It's an interesting story,
That's all. It doesn't define me.
That’s interesting, my family also comes from Guerrero and I’ve been told it has the people with the highest African ancestry. I went there twice and a good portion of the town was white-ish. People with pink skin, light eyes, lighter hair. I myself have red/brown hair like my dad. Granted I’ve probably seen 2% of Guerrero but I seriously have never saw an actual black Mexican in my life. I saw a tourist in a city in Puebla XD
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
Now I feel guilty because even though I’m Mexican, my classmates think I’m white, and I’m also considerably better off than practically any Latino in my school...
あんロわリ omg same 😭
Lil Tree Sapling Even my mom says I have white privilege, to a certain degree :/
(Although, online people seem to think I look Asian? I have no idea how that happened...)
あんロわリ You don’t look Asian at all, I think people say that cuz of ur username idk 😐 😐
あんロわリ I’m Hispanic too (my parents are from Ecuador 🇪🇨 and Guatemala 🇬🇹) and a lot of kids think that me and mah bro’s are white cuz we all have pale skin, hazel eyes and light brown hair, stereotypes suck :( I hate it
Lil Tree Sapling I'm considered pale and have straight hair, and can’t handle spicy food at all. I didn’t know people thought I was white until some of my cousin's friends were speaking Spanish and one of them went out of her way to say they weren’t talking about me.
It’s kind of annoying. I’m Mexican, btw.
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.
Girl all I can get from this video... Is that you ain't "white" latina.
And don't blame it on the makeup or lightning.... That could've been fixed.
She never said she's white. She only said she's light skinned. Huge difference
Lmao. My Mom is from San Luis Potosi and my dad is from Tampico. I'm a white passing Latina and my husband is white.
Sorry to to tell you as a white boy myself. You do not look white at all. Among us white we do not have this problem even darker whites are considered exotic and we try hard to get tan but we are still white Caucasians. And we know the difference no matter how light Hispanics are we do not view you guys as white
I know this is a minuscule detail but I love the fact that everything is captioned!!!! It’s so awesome keep it up!!!
0:03 The women in this video is the voice actor of Alma Madrigal from Encanto
I remember when I was young and brown and I stopped going out in the sun Just because I wanted to look like my white cousins. Crazy how even when were so young, it's engrained in our brain that being white is better. 😭😭
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 couldnt agree more they make us brown dark skin latinos as poor and ignorant
I know why the girl is mad,she is not that european side light skin, she also looks like megan urkel.
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