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I am so sick and tired of every time i turn around i hear why don't you embrace your mexican heritage, why don't you respect and embrace it. They want to know the truth well ive never seen them as something to respect all my life ive only seen mexican males as either drunks, drug addicts, abusive, or they are gangsters. Never seen an actual respectable one. Plus im not just mexican im also irish and scottish ive seen them and their life styles sure some of them are also drinkers but i have more respect for them than anything. I hate when people see my name they think im just mexican. I have applied for jobs and i go to the interview before i can utter a word they tell me to hold on they page someone and once they come in they speak spanish to me i tell them i don't speak spanish they look at me and sometimes say but your names jose. Hell i dont even look mexican my whole life my skin has been white as snow i can get a little darker in the summer when i work but not by much. My mother is full blown white but thinks she straight mexican my sister is half mexican like me but she acts like she just mexican. My whole life they always say to me why don't you act more mexican like they do why dont you speak spanish why dont you dress like one why dont i act like one. I just walk away before i flip out. The reason is cause im not just mexican and if im to be honest i dont even want to be mexican. Ive always been harassed cause of my name which is mexican, when i get a job they try to pay me less then minimum wage, in school everyone had there own little groups i couldn't join the mexicans cause they said and i quote i looked to white to be mexican the white people said cause my name was mexican that i couldn't be white no matter what my skin looks like so i had to sit in the far corner where no one else was. Dating was always out if the question cause when i met the parents they made us break up cause they dont want there little girl dating a wet back or a gangbanger as they call it. Its to the point where i just want to give up on everything why cant they just accept that i dont want to embrace something like that. Cause unlike my mom and sister just my name alone has given me hell my whole life unlike them they had white names. So they have no clue what its like.
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