right? but it started in like 4th grade we lived in Miami & people would keep saying "Cuba is so wild bc Spanish-speaking! but everyone from there is blond & blue-eyed!" I was like, tf are they on about. none of my classmates from Cuba are blondehttps://twitter.com/Maureen_Lapis/status/1279860397546377217 …
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years later, ran into a fellow grad student at UF who also grew up in Miami & we started talking about it he mentioned he's Cuban & I was like "yeah" and he said "omg thanks for believing me, nobody does" ... because he's Black the myth of White Cuba is, uh, messed up
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My neighbor was of the blonde/blue eyed/fled Fidel era, but she settled in Minnesota in her young adulthood and that colored her accent in a way that is likely impossible to replicate.
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