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13. A sibling's boyfriend is from Mexico

And one of the boyfriend’s parents immigrated there from Iran. So he talks like he was born in Mexico and cooks (amazingly well!) many Mexican dishes, but he looks quite like an Iranian. I had never idea about any of that when I first met him- he didn’t look like he was from Mexico (we have a fair population of folks from Mexico around here). Apparently there is quite a population of Iranians that emigrated to Mexico.

One of my red headed pale cousins married a woman from Venezuela. Their children are simply breathtakingly gorgeous- dark skin and flaming red hair. A niece of mine is marrying a young man whose parents immigrated from Sri Lanka and I can’t wait until that couple has children!

Our nation needs to become less white. It’ll happen, but for now the racism is painful to watch.