White people

It's so jarring how important being light-skinned here is. Wherever I go, I get wolf-whistles, calls of 'mamacita' and 'heeeey baby', and I know it's only because I'm white. Men everywhere are eager to impress us with their sparse English vocabulary. They seem to equate being white with being beautiful. There is a saying that I do not know in Spanish, but basically, if a baby is born with darker rather than lighter skin, they say something akin to, "It's dark skinned, but it could still be pretty!"

I remember when I thought racism was as easy as deciding not to hate people because of their skin color. Sometimes I miss being twelve years old.


On Saturday, Catherine and I were at this café and there was this obnoxious white girl sitting behind us. The kind (of person, not specifically white girl) who talks really loudly about personal things in public places like coffee shops and restaurants where NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT HOW YOUR EX-BOYFRIEND THOUGHT YOU HAD TO WASH YOUR FACE IN THE MORNING BECAUSE THE SANDMAN PEES ON IT AT NIGHT. You think I'm kidding, but I'm not.

Anyway, not only was she the regular type of annoying, but she was the racist type of annoying as well! The most ridiculous shit was coming out of her mouth, such as, "I hate the Mexicans here. It's like, all the English they know, they learned from a porno." What an asshole. She also didn't know how to say 'water with ice' in Spanish, and it's like, IF YOU DON'T SPEAK SPANISH, CARRY AROUND A PHRASEBOOK LIKE A GOOD TOURIST. Or if you hate Mexico that much, just leave. The people are wonderful and nice, and even though they holler at white girls, it's only because white people have been imposing racist and unrealistic standards upon them for hundreds of years, so SHUT UP AND GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM.