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In reply to the discussion: White DUers: Tell Your Stories [View all]hunter
(38,264 posts)... and was one of a handful of blond haired blue eyed kids in his school which is maybe 80% Mexican American like his mom. The other 20% kids are white, black, Asian, and mixed up like my kid. Most of my son's childhood friends are Mexican American, but maybe a disproportionate percentage are outsiders like himself. In a perfect world they'd self-segregated in the school cafeteria because they were what's now called STEAM kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) but I know better than that.
My son is perfectly at home in the Mexican American communities. In our community his mom, aunts and uncles are bilingual professionals, overtly Catholic and Mexican-American. My racist Wild West White grandpa would have called the cousins my son grew up with "Mexicans." My grandpa called my wife a "Mexican girl" and boycotted our wedding. Men in his family simply didn't marry Mexican girls. To his credit he got over it, but I can't help wonder if, had he lived that long, he wouldn't have favored his whitest great grandchildren.