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Store managers and employees love to harass me if everything is going well, which could mean good customer service but, what makes it obvious that it’s racist is the fact they follow me the whole time and it’s like they’re waiting for me to prove their point.

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A racist experience I have both seen and experienced is that common phrase of go back to your country. That latinx people don't belong here and should just leave

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When I was younger I used to have an accent and everyone used to make fun of that or tease me about my name

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my mother was always bullied by peers and family for being darker skinned with curlier hair. she was deemed as less smart than her lighter skinned cousins or classmates. my great grandma who was lighter skinned would often degrade my mom for her darker features.

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Definitivamente It’s not accepted that I’m a darker shade in Puerto Rico. I am Afro Latino and it makes many of the fairer skin Latino’s uncomfortable. They view me as a disgrace and my skin color isn’t truly black but it is darker than most so they treat me less than a majority of the time.

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My mom is always telling me what pretty babies I would have if I married someone that was light skin as well. My siblings have green eyes and Im the only one that doesn't and my mom always tells me how nice it would be if I did.

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My father is a dark latino and my mother is a very white latina. When my mother was pregnant, her family only cared about how dark her children would come out. Even her pastor at the time told her " lets hope they're not negrito right"

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I have a coworker who is Dominican and married to a Haitian man and she's shared with me that they have 2 sons, one has a lighter complexion than the other and she has noticed that her son who has a lighter complexion gets treated differently in a more positive way than her son who is of a darker complexion. She always reassures her sons and embraces their ethnic background in hopes that they are never ashamed.

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at my job , most of the nursing assistants including myself are people of color while the nurses are majority white . I was in the clean supply room getting something for a patient and a nurse said “it’s a bad group of people here today” referring to us NAs and i knew it was because we were black.

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I was at an amusement park and I was translating what someone told my family and the person controlling the ride said don't speak that language if we can't understand it here.

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I've had to kick people out of my job because they would say they hate Hispanics even when half the staff on the floor was Hispanic or Latino.

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Unfortunately, that’s how it is. It’s how most of us grew up so it’s nothing that comes up as surprising. But it can tire someone out mentally because being degraded constantly can get to you.

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Growing up my grandmother always treated my cousins differently than she treated my sisters and I. Me and my sisters have darker skin and features whereas my cousins have white skin. I was always hurt that she would cook them food and was nicer to them overall but never understood why until young adulthood.

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I used to work at this fast food place and one of my coworkers was from Panama. Many thought she was African American because of her skin color. So, when she spoke in Spanish to customers they would be in complete shock because they assumed she could not speak Spanish due to her appearance.

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There was this one time at work, I was handling a customer and she had already given me and my coworker an attitude. My coworker only spoke Spanish but understood English perfectly. I asked my coworker something in Spanish and afterwards the customer told me to ‘make sure she got my order right, she doesn’t seem to understand’. At the moment I wasn’t sure how to react but I was enraged.

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often times, I have witnessed children of a Latinx background receive less help or less attention compared to children of a different background. I have even witnessed teachers in my old school called many Latinx kids (especially those with immigrant parents) a "lost cause" which is extremely disheartening. I want to work in a school and I would do my best to advocate for these children.

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One day I went shopping with my mom and my mom does not know english very well. So when we were checking out, the lady who was checking us out was asking my mom questions. My mom did not understand her so I helped translated for her. The lady told me my mom has to learn english because we are in America. That was my first time where I have experienced racism.

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Something I am taking away from the Latinx experience to use both in the present and the future is the importance of the diversity that each latin/hispanic country brings to our community. That just because someone may not look or sound like a hispanic it doesn't discredit them belonging to our culture

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Everyone got a different experience but all the same feelings go through it. I just gotta make sure me as an individual is willing to listen and maybe help solve problems that arise with how are society treats Latinos and even how we as Latinos treat one another. Being willing to stay humble, listen to someone’s struggles, and be willing to share can pave a way for many of us to truly be United.

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In a place i've worked. The majority of the workers were latinx and i have seen one of the workers be penalized for taking off, trying to get his son to the US from Venezuela. And it being called a "bad excuse" from my boss.

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My father grew up as the lightest skinned sibling which got him in a lot of trouble just because he was lighter. Some relatives who were darker skinned would take out their jealous on him. This later caused my father to make statements that my older sister was not his child because she is the darkest skinned child out of all his children.

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When the topic of ethnic background comes up in conversation, people often do not believe that I am not mixed race because they say "you have good hair" there must be something else in your blood line that you don't know about especially because you're not that dark.

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Even though I knew women with curlier hair and darker skin experienced discrimination and/or bullying, I did not know that women of a lighter color went through similar experiences. Of course not as much but still.

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It's a little disturbing and sad to see but it's become the norm in our society. Many of us know what it's like and to us it might seem like something not out of the ordinary but when we see it from a different perspective it's saddening

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We see prejudice and racism everywhere, even within our own cultures and communities. This doesn't mean it's right, but it gives explanation

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Through out my whole life I have been white passing because I have very fair skin and green eyes so when I'm in public I never have any problems but once I'm with my family and the ones with a darker complexion once they see were latinos speaking Spanish they start to think there superior almost in a way of right saying there latinos can't speak English and almost ignore that were there

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Its very interesting to see that hispanic people don't really prepare their children for future prejudices they might face. I think this because they choose to believe that they can't be prejudiced

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Unfortunately I am not surprised that there is misrepresentation in the studies, I feel that it is the "American way of thinking" that causes such division among us who are non white

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At work I am one of the very few Hispanics that work there, without being said I am also one of the youngest. Many assume that because I am Hispanic that I do not know what I am doing and they start treating me different as soon as I walk in, but by the time I leave my shift they say that I work very well and they tell me to keep up the good work.

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I am a lighter color than my sisters. My sisters are more dark in color and have a different hair texture than me. My uncles from El Salvador would make fun of my skin color because i'm too "white" to be Salvadorian. They said I didn't do anything because people who have my skin color typically don't go out into the sun. I never knew my color would have been a problem until that day.