I’m of Mexican descent born and raised in the United States fluent in both English and Spanish. I’m very close to my Mexican heritage because I grew up in a bordertown between Sonora and Arizona. Growing up I never knew Mexican wasn’t even a race, I honestly never even thought about race and none in my family was racist except for my grandmothers side of the family. At 15 I started becoming obsessed with history, cultures, languages and race. I became sorta racist since then but that’s because I thought too much about race and it somehow bothered my thinking since I do have Aspergers (High functioning Autism) Severe anxiety ,depression AND OCD. Thinking about race has messed me up but also built me up in a way …now I don’t know how to explain it. I grew up in Nogales, Arizona so I know the people in the area I’m from are mostly Euro-mestizo, Mestizo that I know of but rarely see people that actually look Native American now with that being said I’m not saying we aren’t also indians. I know I have some Yaqui indian from my maternal grandfather and some Spanish from my maternal great grandmothers side since she’s half Spanish half Mexican MY GREAT grandmothers mother was Mestiza with some arab blood. Her father was Spanish and from what I know the family was from Granada, Spain (Andalusia province) with the surname ESCOBOZA which is popular among upper-class Mexicans. I do not know much about that but I heard my great great grandfather’s parents never approved of my great great grandmother marrying her son because she was an “india” to them. EVEN though she had curly hair and European characteristics but just simply because she was dark-skinned so with just THAT she was a “india”. Not saying there’s anything wrong with it but THEY said it to humiliate her because I believe it was how you say in Spanish “humillante”
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