Aruvin 💊@aruvinchan
Race dynamics are so interesting in Spain.
I met a Mexican-American last week.
He told me he's going to leave Spain once he gets his Spanish passport.
I asked why,
He said, "Because Spanish people are racist pricks."
He looks Latino, he acts Latino, he IS Latino.
But he was also born and raised in Texas, speaks fluent English, and also has a lucrative remote job.
So when Spanish people discover those other things about him, they short-circuit a little bit.
Like you can see the sheer confusion and cognitive dissonance on their faces:
"Wait, I want to look down on him like how I look down on all the other Latinos in Spain, but he has literally 3 things in which he's superior to me. I don't know how to react now."
Because Spanish people have that stereotype that Latinos are all lazy, impoverished freeloaders who are trying to steal Spanish jobs and replace the local population.
But when he revealed the other things about himself, Spanish people don't know how to react anymore.
It's like if you and I met a Bangladeshi billionaire Chad.
It just wouldn't compute.
