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MARC SPECTOR becoming MOON KNIGHT Moon Knight | S01E05 · Asylum

Marc and Steven are headmates ✅ correct terminology

Marc and Steven are alters ✅ correct terminology

Marc and Steven are “split personalities” 🚫 incorrect terminology

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tl;dr: it is way more of a nuanced answer than yes or no. whiteness is perceived and defined very differently across *all* latin countries on top of how whiteness is defined in the USA

also, if you are not latin american, this is not a conversation for you to participate in

i’m latino. i’m from south mexico, born there, raised in the US. i’m not white.

keep in mind, the caste system is a big big reason everyone is trying to label pedro as white or not, and, if ppl aren’t aware, latin america is so mixed bc of colonization. we don’t have a single race, latin americans are and can be anything and everything between white, indigenous, black, asian, arab, etc. etc. etc. not to mention, its just as possible that in different places within the same country, you’d be labeled a different race completely dependent on what your heritage is, which we don’t know abt pedro pascal as fans!!

& that comment he made about being white, please understand this is a cultural thing. often times we’ll create or go by nicknames based on our physical features. if you’ve seen encanto, you’ll see within the same family people can look very different. being called white in this regard is more of a comparison to the people around you than actually being a white person. you’re lighter than others, so you’re fondly called white, but you’re still not A White Person.

again, i’m not white, i wasn’t born in the US, but i *did* grow up here, and i share pretty similar features and experiences to pedro. we’re paler and can be confused for being white by other latin americans (and even then, it’s dependent on how much sun i’ve gotten bc lol this is a pretty Of Color thing!), but i really don’t perceive him as a white man. i do not share any experiences with whiteness or white privilege, i have never been clocked as white by white americans, and i imagine if i had gotten my parents’ other last names no one would be able to pronounce them right, which pedro pascal has talked about why he dropped one of his surnames!

i am, by blood quantum, fully puerto rican. my features have led others to believe that i am a biracial black woman, a non-hispanic, that is. my partner is also puerto rican. he is dark-skinned, and has been mistaken for a non-hispanic black man. we both identify as black hispanics, afro-latines, whichever really fits the bill. both of my sisters are pale skinned. they identify as white hispanics. my mother is also a white hispanic, born in puerto rico, spanish as a first language. i also consider lin-manuel miranda to be a white hispanic, to reference op’s post. you can fully be white and also be hispanic. it’s not a bad thing. race and ethnicity are two different things.

i do think that self-identification is important, but i also believe there is no such thing as a white-passing hispanic. you are a white hispanic, a black hispanic, an indigenous hispanic, or something else that i’m failing to mention.

as an actress, i believe ethnic/racial ambiguity is also created by white people, to allow those who are white to be able to “pass” as other ethnicities but also to avoid being held accountable for the lack of proper poc representation in media (i.e. allowing a hispanic to play roles that are not intended for them simply because they “look the part”)

as someone who has suffered the consequences of racism and colorism in the latinx community (some from my own family if i may add), it is a little disheartening to see some hispanics reject their whiteness while also rejecting the beauty of the diversity in their culture. it’s overall very harmful to the afro-latinx community as a whole.

yes, it is important to highlight your ethnicity and your culture, but at the end of the day white (or paler) hispanics benefit from white privilege. a cop would not know my sister is puerto rican if they pulled her over until they read her license and see her last name. i do not have the same liberty. my father does not have the same liberty.

i agree that we don’t know much about a person’s heritage simply by looking at them!!! it’s important not to label people incorrectly. however, the subject of race is a complicated subject to navigate when you bring in ethnicity as an added identification. this is why some white hispanics and even indigenous hispanics believe they can still say the n word, which i disagree with wholeheartedly.