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Originally Posted by sopas ej
Is your wife bothered that many people don't get it right, or does she like that she "passes" for "white" in the US? If I were to look at her and her body language and listen to her Spanish, would she be bothered if I told her that I got right away that she's Mexican? She's a Chilanga, right?
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She doesn't care. It's all good. Her father's side immigrated to Mexico from Genoa, Italy, and her mother's side is from the Canary Islands (Spain) so not surprising that people think she looks Mediterranean.
She can "pass" for white in NYC, with all the Jews, Italians, Greeks, etc. but maybe not so much in Kansas. If we lived in SoCal I could see people guessing she's Armenian.
Also, a lot of Americans think that everyone in Mexico looks indigenous or at least Mestizo. Granted, most Mexicans are Mestizo, but there are also plenty of Europeans, some Middle Easterners, and even some African-Mexicans.
And, yeah, if you know Mexico well, you'd know she's from Mexico City. She has a (light) Chilanga accent and mannerisms.
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