🔸 How to write Mexican/Hispanic characters 🔸

[LiaMina]

@chamoybebe

2: Our appearance
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

I don’t think you’re blowing anyone’s mind with this one, babe. Western media and even our own film and television industry is hyper focused on Latinx people with the lightest skin and most Eurocentric features, you see blondes with blue eyes on Telanovela all the time and US media only has love for the lightest shades of brown (unless we’re talking about villains which is a whole other conversation). The fact that there are Arab, Asian, black and a huge population of native (which is where a lot of those East Asian features come from) people in Mexico is the real chisme.