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Where are you really from?" Comments and questions faced by Hispanic students - Comments and questions faced by Hispanic students ... But at the end of the day, what so many people only see is I'm Hispanic , I'm ethnic, I'm ...

Hollywood's problem with Latinx representation - Her question was one I was all-too accustomed to answering. Growing up in a variety of Ontario suburbs, I constantly faced questions about my ethnicity. People asked me: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? What are you? I was left confused and conflicted. I didn’t have trouble identifying with my mom’s side of the family. They raised me to feel proud of my ethnicity and our family’s history of fighting apartheid. But I didn’t have a sense of belonging to my Latinx roots. I didn’t have a relationship at all with my dad, who was from Uruguay.