Is colorism among Latinos still prevalent, parents encouraging us to go after whites only?

[Anonymous]

This is base on my real life story.

As a Latina of a lighter tone (not white but not fully indigenous either), my mother used to encourage me to get married to a tall, German fellow with blonde hair and blue eyes or another one of pure European genes. She's been telling me this years ever since I was a kid. Her own words once were (not mine, her words) ''That way your kids will be pretty. I'll have beautiful grandchildren''.

She also stated that since I have a good height myself (I'm 5'7) then getting with a very tall man will likely get me strong, tall kids. She used to tell me to select good, to go for those types and don't go for ''common indigenous types''.

Coindentally, I only like two groups of men; either other Latinos that aren't fully dark nor totally indigenous (mixed is ok) or white men. I have no attractions towards the other groups.

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I'm just slightly darker than my mom but still with a lighter tone meanwhile my mom is white. Ironically she married my father, a tanned skinned man. It's like she wanted to select white continue with white color, for it not to disappear.

[Berethor]

Colorism, heightism, but yea white is best looking race on earth, and you tall for a woman.

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/25/health/asian-beauty/index.html

https://www.worlddata.info/average-bodyheight.php

[Asker]

Thank you. I'm really from Peru and even the average man there is slightly shorter than me meanwhile the average woman is just 5ft (152-153 cms). I got mixed with European ancestry and many of them were tall. Otherwise if I would've been fully indigenous and only had native Peruvian roots, wow then both my mother and I would've been a lot shorter. Yeah you're right. I got mixed with great genes.

[Berethor]

Glad to help, look weird when man is shorter than woman so you better find tall man.

[Anonymous]

For the vast majority of other women even among Asian women, they say the same things. I have personally heard many Asian women that think Asian men are feminine so they say “I’ll only ever date a white guy or Hispanic guy.” But the Hispanic guy will be tan and tall plus very handsome. They don’t go for a really dark Hispanic guy.
To answer your question, it is way worse among everyone else. In order from most to least racist minorities according to polling.
1. Blacks
2. Asians
3. Hispanics
4. Native Americans and indigenous

[Asker]

yeah I'm definitely not attracted towards 1, 2 nor 4. I'm a mestiza Latina. I can't call myself tanned either because I'm much lighter than my father (it's a huge difference) and a lot closer to my mother's white tone. My skin only gets darker with the hot sun but during the winter it gets lighter again. I guess I would be consider fair skinned.
I'm a full alright. Meanwhile my father is the typical tanned hispanic guy and 5'11 (way above average for our country; the average man is just 5'5), his father (my paternal grandfather) was a white hispanic. My dad's uncle (my grand uncle) was the only hispanic man with natural blonde hair, recessive gene alright.

[Asker]

There are certain hispanic men with white skin too.

[Opinion Owner]

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[Kyr0s]

Date for personality. Don't listen to your mother. Live your life.

[Asker]

True and at the same time I have preference too. There are certain groups of men I won't date no matter how sweet they are.

[Kyr0s]

That's more on your call.

[Anonymous]

Your mother is a smart lady.