Why do people think all mexicans are tan ?

Question

Im mexican and Spaniard american
all my family is mexican and spaniard but my mom and dads family they are all light skined also white skined .My great great great grandfather was a red head abd was really white but he is mexican .Im the only one in my family that is tan from my tan from my om family and my dads side i have a few tan fanily memebers but the have colored eyes like my dad had blonde hair when he was born .But i dont get why some people think all mexicans are tan and have brown eyes when its not true most of them have light skin and color eyes .No rude answers please

Answer 1

I'm mexican and Spaniard american too :) I'm whiter than white tho but yea I never really get why people think all mexicans are tan and I really hate when they say that I'm not mexican or think I'm stuck up just because I'm saying I'm spanish too because I AM Mexican and I AM Spanish but my skin color is almost nonexistent and the palest shade of pale lol but I have brown eyes and brown hair tho. People just need to look past stereo typing, the skin color of someone will never define who they are anyways so why even think about it???

Answer 2

Haha true, almost all the Mexican girls at my school are light with colored eyes.

I'm also Mexican & Spaniard and a bit British yet I'm the whitest out of all my friends:p And whenever I start speaking Spanish or say I'm Mexican my friends or the people at my school just get like really freaked out or something, sometimes even the teachers. xD But, I don't blame them, I'd be pretty surprised if a really white girl with a French name started speaking Spanish or said she's Mexican:p

And in my family, I'm, like, the third whitest & the one with the lightest hair color; it's a really light brown with some goldish/blondeish.... My mom says I'd look like the stereotypical Californian girl if my hair was a little more blonde and if my eyes were blue instead of brown. .-.

And right now, I'm getting a tan, but that's cause I spend the whole day at the pool, yet I'm still really white~ xD

Answer 3

It's funny because I'm a tan Mexican with brown eyes. MOST mexicans are darker skinned with brown eyes. I think it depends on how long ago that family came from mexico. For example, my parents grew up in Mexico, and I'm dark. My friends great grandparents were the last generation that grew up in Mexico, and she's really light skinned. I guess it just depends.

Answer 4

My boyfriend is mexican and spaniard. One time I was in there living room and I looked at a picture of his dads side of the family when they were young and I was like "why do you have a random picture of this white family" lol and he was like uhh thats my grandpa.