Thread:MondlichtPanda/@comment-37484301-20200411232318/@comment-38116464-20200615194645

StoryGirl83 wrote:

With Thomas it's kind of sad that they think that any one culture or ethnic group looks exactly the same when none of them do. Seems more like they are the ones making racist comments and as I'm sure there are Latinos and Latinas who look exactly like him, it could be pretty cruel to those people to be told they aren't Latin(o/a) just because they aren't what those people think they should look like. And honestly, it kind of sounds like that was exactly the point. He has been hurt by people who don't think his culture is his own and that he doesn't look like what they expect. Yeah, 100% this. My grandma grew up in Mexico, but most people wouldn't guess that until she talks and they hear her accent. It's not even that she doesn't "look Mexican" in some ways: she's got dark, curly hair and dark eyes. But she's also pale and dresses like any old American lady, and people have a very narrow understanding of ethnicity/race sometimes.