“Defining my culture in simpler words is: Living out loud, embracing all, and holding yourself to a level of respect.”
“Go back to where you came from,” the older boy in my middle school gym class said to me one day. His offhand comment surprised me; I had been at my new school for a few months and we’d never really spoken before. Classes were small, there were maybe 100 kids in the whole school, and, up until that moment, no one had been rude to me. But I could count the non-white students on one hand, and the fact that I was one of them seemed to be what made me the target of that one white boy's insults.
When I moved back to California, it was truly the first time I felt I had found Latinidad. When no one else would ask me to sit with them, the Mexican girls in my gym class opened their tables to me. Every day, we’d meet at the same five or so tables, piling our black book bags high and rushing off to stand in the lunch line. Spanish flew about and, although I couldn’t speak the language with them, they always made me feel like I belonged.
As I’m still learning today, there’s no one way to be Latinx — and for mixed heritage people, defining what it means to be Latinx can take years to figure out. For some, being Latinx means preventing others from putting their culture in a box. For others, being Latinx means defining your own identity while honoring their multicultural backgrounds.
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