🔸 How to write Mexican/Hispanic characters 🔸

[TheSunflowerQueen]

Thank you so much for this!!

@chamoybebe

I know that this is a hard pill to swallow, but, not every mexican has dark skin. This is coming from a pale mexican. My family is mostly light skinned, but we are 100% mexican. We can have blue eyes, blond hair, light skin, and be 100% mexican. Mexicans are very diverse, some of us are even born with East Asian features.

Same!! I’m half-Mexican and half-Greek, but I’m also very light skinned and many people in my city have blonde hair and blue or green eyes.

@chamoybebe

The Sexual Latina trope. You don’t know how many stories or movies or just tv shows in general have the latinx character a person who does the thing to everyone they see. Not all of us are like that. Liek me for example, I am the artist who would rather watch anime and chill then hook up with some dude.

Yes!! I really hate this stereotype. I’m not like that, either, so it saddens and angers me when people think that all Latina girls are sex-crazed.

Another thing I’d like to add:
People seem to assume that all Mexicans like to get drunk and say a bunch of groserías (swear words). Yes, there are people here like that, but not everyone drinks and curses. It depends a lot on how you were raised, what your beliefs are, and whether or not you like alcohol. I work in a school, and some of my teenage students can’t even stand the taste of alcohol.