Hi, Tumblr. I need you people to settle a completely normal marital dispute.
Over the weekend, my husband and I were hanging out with another couple and the guy started talking about statistics claiming that white people are a global minority and are eventually going to disappear.
Naturally we responded to this serious demographic discussion with jokes as one does and I told my husband that he was personally contributing to the extinction of white people because he is white and chose to marry a dude meaning his little European genes will die with him.
Then this man looked me directly in the face and said, “Well it’s your fault too.”
I said, “Excuse me? I’m not white.
He looked at me like I had just told him to hit his grandma with a hammer and said “Yes, you are.”
My argument is: My mother is Brazilian. I am Latino. Case closed. Court adjourned. Everyone go home.
His argument: “Your mother is Brazilian because she was born in Brazil. Your great grandparents were Romanian your dad’s side is pretty much English in fact you have an aggressively English last name and when you go in the sun you don’t tan in fact you got blisters on our honeymoon. You are as white as I am.”
I told him that is NOT how this works because my mother raised us as Latinos I speak fluent Portuguese and I don't even know a single Romenian dish.
Then he said something along the lines of “She probably told you that because she knows how offended blonde haired, blue eyed Americans get when they find out people from other countries can also be white.”
So now I need Tumblr to act as the Supreme Court of Race and Ethnicity.
Who is right: me, my husband or are we both deeply stupid ?
who's right?
me
him
