Racism

I wondered about the “racism” aspect as well.

I have a Scandinavian parent and a Celtic parent, but surprisingly I tan like nobody’s business. One time I was flew into LAX and the immigration officer gave me a bad time. They said, “You look Mexican to me.” I thought they had no idea how ignorant that was.

My experience has been that Mexicans’ “race” spans from the whiter-than-white to the blacker-than-black. There is a woman at the Cafe de Atoyac coffee vendor who looks like she would fit in selling coffee in Dublin.

Similarly, extranjeros, including those from the USA and from Canada \, come in all shades of all races. I wonder whether what was meant was xenophobia, a form of prejudice characterized by the dislike, fear, or hatred of people perceived as outsiders or foreigners.