We know that immigrants to the US tend to wind up in the same class status here that they had in their home country.
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We also know that, across the americas, white people tend to hold the most wealth.
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So white wealthy white person in Brazil, for example, will immigrate here and be a wealthy white person here.
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Do I care if people make fun of their accent or that English isn't their first language? Absolutely—including when they're a white latinx.
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But: Are they generally in a social position where this actually happens to them? No. Not usually.
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oh, I wouldn't debate that making fun of accents is wrong! What I was trying to explore is the notion that "race" is made up...
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Ah, I may have misunderstood...
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Like, if a white latinx suffers the same discrimination as brown latinxs, is claiming the mantle of poc illegitimate?
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... but racism is real.
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