Being Latina in the US

Being, I say like, I'm Latina in the United States, right? That's what we're talking about. And I feel like that, even before social media, has always been a thing. Because Spanish was my first language, I continue to speak Spanish. But a lot of people that knew me when I was young say that I've lost my accent.

And so, I think accents like, the foods we eat, the music we listen to you know, just kind of, if you see me around my family, I'm a very certain type of way that I feel like is stereotypically, has been stereotypically identified as more Latina, and I feel like that's been around forever because there were obviously, like, a lot of civil movements about, like, being able to speak Spanish in public places and things like that, like schools.

But I think that there's definitely this interesting, like, fetishization of Latina women that's coming about through social media and also just people I think in some ways it's positive that, that people who identify as Latina are learning that there's like this shared experience and there's different levels of, like, interacting with our race and interacting with our ethnicity. But then I think from the outside it's become like, You know, you want, you, you want to be like the Sofia Vergara, you don't want to be like, I don't know my mom would always say like, la India Maria, but like, you know, like, that sort of thing I feel like has become a lot more like, there's, there's a hot way to be Latina, and then there's like, the rest of us.